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  • The real deal on judicial filibusters

    03/16/2005 5:13:03 AM PST · by vastwritewingconspiracy · 16 replies · 1,028+ views
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    Time to Bust the Filibusters by Gary Schneeberger, editor The blockade of President Bush's judicial nominations is wrong — and the Democrats know it. The way liberal senators like Robert Byrd and Ted Kennedy have talked of late, you'd think the Constitution guaranteed them the right to twist Senate rules to block President Bush's judicial nominees. The reality, though, is that no article, section, amendment — or stray sentence — in our nation's founding document authorizes the Senate's Democratic minority to abuse filibusters as they have for the past four years: as a means of keeping those with whom they...