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Faced with a lack of pertinent information and an uncooperative administration, Senate Democrats should not take their filibuster power lightly. They are right in their efforts to block the judicial nomination of Miguel A. Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and they should use...
The Senate Democrats conducting a filibuster against the confirmation of Harvard Law School graduate Miguel A. Estrada give as their reason that Estrada would not answer questions about how he would decide cases that came before him, would not criticize Supreme Court precedents and that the Department of Justice would...
Although on its editorial page The New York Times cheers on the Democrat filibuster, in its own news pages it has reported that every living Solicitor General, Republican and Democrat, has signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee stating that the release of their staff’s confidential...
The fact is that these charges, which are mindlessly repeated, are pure political persiflage to block the confirmation of a powerful conservative intellect, who because of that intellect, his Central American ethnicity, his relative youth and his compelling life story may one day be an attractive candidate for the Supreme...
“It would be very difficult to filibuster someone with his life story,” Vladeck said.