To: aristeides
If the Gop call for a cloture vote the constitution will be in effect well as Fox news says...
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a "cloture" vote on an appellate court nominee would overturn more than two centuries of Senate precedent and rewrite the constitutional definition of "advise and consent."
180 posted on
03/01/2003 8:13:52 AM PST by
TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
a "cloture" vote on an appellate court nominee would overturn more than two centuries of Senate precedent and rewrite the constitutional definition of "advise and consent." I don't understand that. Are you saying the filibuster of Abe Fortas was unconstitutional? Why isn't that a precedent?
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