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ABC News Radio-10:00 CST-Bush has decided on Supreme Court nominee. Spector called to WH tonight to discuss. Expected to be "mainstream".

Scroll down a little, then click on "Legal" to the right, to see the odds on various candidates to be nominated to the Supreme Court. Yesterday, Garza was the clear front-runner. Today, Gonzales has pulled just behind Garza, after a gain of 11 points. The most hopeful development, from my perspective, is that Janice Rodgers Brown is now tied for 3rd place with Luttig, after gaining 10.9 points in the last 24 hours. Do the TradeSports betters know something that I don't?

The filibuster isn't a noble institution, it's a tactic - and one with a checkered past, at that. Liberals decried it in the 1960s when segregationist Southern Democrats used it to thwart the will of the majority to block civil rights legislation. But at least that tawdry application of the filibuster was consistent with its purpose in the United States Senate as a procedure to force legislative compromise.