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...Senate cloakrooms last week, the Vice President of the U.S. was jovially hailed by buoyant liberals and flailed by moody Southerners as "Judge Nixon." The reason: by one thunderstriking interpretation from the chair, Richard Nixon had tagged the discomfiting word "unconstitutional" to the much-debated, filibuster-protecting Senate Rule XXII (TIME, Jan. 14). But he had done something else as well: he had raised an emotional floodgate for a piece of vital legislation that has been dammed too long by Senate rules and procedure. Before Congress adjourns, everyone agreed, there will be a sizzling Senate filibuster. But when the filibuster...
...Guaranteed Rights. The debate on Rule XXII not only produced Nixon's unequivocal and unexpected opinion. It also showed, when the vote came, a stronger block of liberal votes (55 to 38) than Southern Senators had anticipated. Banking on that liberal strength and on additional recruits drummed off the fence by the Nixon decision, Illinois' Everett Dirksen, the Republican whip, last week introduced the Administration's civil-rights measure. Little different from last year's bill, the Dirksen measure involved guaranteed minority voting rights, a presidential civil-rights commission, a civil-rights division within the Department...
...Impending Defeat. Beyond civil rights and its reefs, there waits the prospect of a second losing battle for the South. Stung by "Judge" Nixon's interpretation. Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader William Knowland last week co-sponsored a bill to 1) amend the provision of Rule XXII that requires a vote of two-thirds of all Senators (64 votes) to close debate, so that cloture can be applied by two-thirds of the Senators present; 2) abolish the provision of XXII that guarantees the right of unlimited debate (i.e., nonstop filibuster privileges) on proposals to change...
...Democrats had lost large chunks of their usual big-city vote in civil-rights-conscious areas in the November election, both Democrats and Republicans from the North and the West were ready to combine politics with principle by finding a way to change the Senate's famed Rule XXII and its built-in right of filibuster. Not only did they have the Southern conservative Democrats to contend with; some conservative Republicans and Northern Democrats feared civil rights less than they did a rule change. As the fight readied, Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and Minority Leader Bill Knowland got together...
...issues in the North-South conflict is that of the filibuster. An opening day attempt will be made to change Senate Rule XXII to facilitate limitation of debate, and Stevenson said he was "very much in favor" of this change. He said he had been "largely instrumental" in having a pledge to change the rule included in this year's party platform