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But while Coulter can occasionally be coarse--she's not one of those conservatives who won't say "f___" two or three times over dinner--she doesn't seem particularly uncomplicated. When I spoke with her friend Miguel Estrada, an attorney and onetime White House nominee for a judgeship (Estrada...
REPUBLICANS HAVE 55 SEATS IN THE SENATE NOW. WHY SHOULD DEMOCRATS, THROUGH A FILIBUSTER, BE ABLE TO BLOCK JUDGES THAT 55 SENATORS AGREE ON?
If Senate minority leader Harry Reid is spooked by Republican threats to curb the mighty filibuster in order to get President Bush's judges appointed to the bench, he isn't showing it. In a private meeting last week with Reid, majority leader Bill Frist said he wanted a compromise...
The Nevada Democrat said that while he welcomed talk of a compromise, he was considering expanding the filibuster threat to include Bush's pick to be U.N. Ambassador, John Bolton, whose confirmation hearings begin this week. "We might filibuster him," Reid told TIME. And he added another name to the...
This month, Democrats may use procedural tricks to stop all Senate business and block a Republican effort to eliminate minority filibuster rights and jam through seven federal judges proposed by the President. The fight may be winnable, but it is a culture of law cul-de-sac. The Democrats will...