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To: savedbygrace

The dems would need 40 VOTES to Fillibuster, and without ALL seven of the GOP gang on board they don't have it..


21 posted on 11/03/2005 5:03:24 AM PST by davidosborne (www.DavidOsborne.net)
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To: davidosborne

The constitutional option ultimately requires only 50 + 1 votes, not 61. After several floor votes on the chair's ruling on a specific point of order, with each one requiring less and less Yea votes, it finally reaches the point of requiring a simple majority. Once that's accomplished, judicial filibusters are no longer in order.

That in turn means that judicial appointment would only require a simple majority vote on the floor, with no threat or possibility of a filibuster.

This constitutional option is also referred to as the nuclear option. Clear?


26 posted on 11/03/2005 5:17:08 AM PST by savedbygrace
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