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...reality, though, the filibuster is akin to a weapon of mass destruction; it's not something to be used often. That's why most of Bush's picks, controversial or not, have been getting through, and the number of nominees confirmed is about the same as in the first two years of the Reagan and Clinton administrations...
...there's no doubt that with Estrada - and possibly Owen - Democrats are sharpening their skills with that weapon. And when it's a high court seat that's at stake, they hope to be battle-ready...
...Democrats, for their part, say the filibuster is practically the only weapon they have left in the face of what they assert is a brazen attempt to stuff the nation's federal courts with highly ideological lawyers. Since most cases, while precedent-setting, never make it to the Supreme Court, they seem to have decided it's worth the fight even in the lower courts. "Never in recent memory has their been such an affront to the balance of the judiciary," said Sen. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, a Democratic member of the judiciary panel, where inter-party relations have sunk...
...brother says the criminal record “represents a poverty-stricken teenage father” and emphasizes that Colono never had a history of carrying a weapon...
While Blackwill was serving as ambassador, the U.S. lifted sanctions against India, which were imposed by the Clinton administration in 1998 after India tested its first nuclear weapon...