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| | Filibuster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | According to a Historical Moments Essay on the U.S. Senate website, the Republican Party was the first to initiate a filibuster against a judicial nominee in 1968, forcing Democratic president Lyndon Johnson to withdraw the nomination of Associate Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas to be chief justice. | | | Thurmond's attempt to filibuster the Civil Rights Act was defeated when Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson refused to refer any further business to the Senate, which required the filibuster to be kept up indefinitely. | | | In 2005, some Republican senators led by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), responding to the Democrats' threat to filibuster some judicial nominees of President George W. Bush to prevent a vote on the nominations, floated the idea of eliminating filibusters on judicial nominees by declaring current Senate rules allowing such filibusters unconstitutional. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_(legislative_tactic)
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| | filibuster on Encyclopedia.com |
| | BENCH PRESS: Orrin Hatch blasts holdups on judicial nominees during the Senate's "reverse filibuster" in November.. | | | HARRY REID: The new Senate minority leader has made the right to filibuster judicial nominees a line-in-the-sand issue.. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/f1/filibust.asp
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| | Kate O'Beirne on Filibusters on National Review Online |
| | But, with Kate Michelman demanding that Democratic senators filibuster any judicial nominee who fails to give full-throated support to abortion rights, and People for the American Way's Ralph Neas pledging "judicial Armageddon" to block the approval of the president's nominees, Republicans should be expected to fight back with the most powerful weapon in their arsenal. | | | The legislative roadblock that threatens to derail his initiatives and nominations is Senate Rule XXII, the provision allowing a senator to mount a filibuster, thereby blocking a vote, unless a supermajority of 60 senators invokes cloture to end the protest. | | | Once he signals his intent to filibuster, a senator is free even to leave town if he chooses, confident that he has triggered the need for 60 votes. |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/kob/kob021003.asp
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| | Filibuster |
| | The word slowly became filibuster and was used in the Senate to describe Senators who had developed techniques for holding up legislation that they were opposed to. | | | It is obvious that Senator Dial was only using the threat of the filibuster for his own personal gain in his state on an unrelated parochial concern. | | | With the upcoming election the Republicans could break the 55-45 majority in the senate and be able to pass partisan bills without problem. |
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http://www.juntosociety.com/government/filibuster.htm
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| | ABC News: Primer: Judicial Nominees and the Filibuster |
| | Under the Constitution, the president's judicial nominees need a majority vote in the Senate to be confirmed. | | | Federal judges are immensely powerful — all cases raising constitutional issues, including school prayer, abortion, and freedom of speech are heard before a single federal judge at the trial level and a panel of federal judges on appeal. | | | April 25, 2005 — A partisan showdown over judicial appointments is brewing on Capitol Hill, where Senate Democrats are threatening to filibuster several of President Bush's nominees to the federal bench. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=683438
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| | village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway |
| | A filibuster defeated LBJ in his efforts to make Abe Fortas chief justice of the Supreme Court. | | | Strom Thurmond's famous filibuster followed an eight-day filibuster by Georgia senator Richard Russell that resulted in watering down that year's civil rights bill, removing its enforcement provisions. | | | The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was created to protect voting rights—basically establishing them for the first time for many Southern black people—eliminate discrimination in public facilities and federally assisted programs, extend the Commission on Civil Rights, and create the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0518,mondo1,63599,6.html
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| | COMMENTARY: Ending judicial filibuster could haunt the GOP |
| | Some conservatives call filibusters of judicial nominations unconstitutional because they violate the separation of powers by preventing the president from doing his constitutional duty of staffing the judiciary. | | | Republicans may seek a ruling from the chair — Vice President Cheney presiding — that filibustering judicial nominees is impermissible, a ruling that a simple majority of senators could enforce. | | | The crucial, albeit unwritten, rule regarding judicial nominees was changed forever 18 years ago by the Bork confirmation fight: Now both sides in the Senate feel free to judge and accept or reject nominees on the basis of their judicial philosophies. |
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http://www.vvdailypress.com/2005/111115496996222.html
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| | Majority Fools? |
| | Commentary: Republicans are preparing to abolish the judicial filibuster. | | | The strongest argument for the judicial filibuster is that it forces presidents to pick moderate judges. | | | At the moment, 50.8 percent of Americans are represented by the 44 Democrats and one independent in the Senate; the filibuster is the only protection that majority has in the judicial process. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/05/frist_filibuster.html
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| | Filibuster repair - The Washington Times: Commentary - May 22, 2005 |
| | Perhaps the most notorious filibuster against civil and minority rights was performed by Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who in 1964 filibustered to prevent the Republicans from passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. | | | The original purpose of the filibuster was to ensure no senator ever suffered the indignity of having a speech cut short. | | | But from 1970-1994 alone, there were more than 195 Senate filibuster abuses. |
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http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20050521-100527-1346r.htm
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| | The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Filibuster precedent in '68, Democrats say |
| | The Senate had confirmed Fortas in 1965 as a Supreme Court associate justice. | | | WASHINGTON — The Senate was launched on a full-blown filibuster, with one South Carolina senator consuming time by reading "long passages of James F. Byrnes' memoirs in a thick Southern accent," according to a newspaper account. | | | The required number of votes to halt a filibuster then was 67; filibusters today can be halted by 60 of the Senate's 100 members. |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002213725_judges20.html
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| | FactCheck.org A Fictional View of the Filibuster |
| | The last to filibuster against the landmark 1964 legislation was Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who spoke for 14 hours and 13 minutes, finishing the morning of June 10 – the 57th day of debate on the measure. | | | The historical reality is that the filibuster was the means by which the segregationist South blocked federal civil rights legislation for many decades after a majority favored it. | | | Bilbo wasn't sworn in, even though Southern colleagues launched a filibuster that threatened to paralyze the Senate until he was allowed to take his seat. |
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http://www.factcheck.org/article317.html
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| | CBS News Is GOP Prepared To Go Nuclear? April 14, 2005 10:13:44 |
| | Under current filibuster rules, 41 senators who oppose a controversial bill or judicial nominee can vote to continue debate and thereby block a final vote on the issue unless a supermajority of 60 senators vote to end the debate and call a vote. | | | If Frist decides to pursue the nuclear option, Vice President Dick Cheney, who serves as president of the Senate, would have to rule that filibusters against judicial nominees are unconstitutional, according to The Washington Post. | | | The Senate would then vote to uphold the ruling, and if a majority agree with Cheney, filibusters against judicial nominees would effectively be eliminated. |
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/30/politics/main684118.shtml
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| | GOP aims to bust up the filibuster rules - Politics - MSNBC.com |
| | Republicans insist that use of the filibuster to prevent votes on 10 judicial nominees in the last Congress was unprecedented and unconstitutional. | | | They said he was one of 14 Supreme Court nominees over the years who never got a confirmation vote. | | | Even with their new majority of 55, it is unclear whether Republicans can reach 60 votes on the most contentious nominees. |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6645591
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| | Frist backs rule change on judges=The Hill.com= |
| | Since Democrats launched a permanent filibuster against Miguel Estrada, whom Bush nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, the first time a judicial nominee was subjected to a series of failed cloture votes, conservatives have discussed ways to eliminate such blocking tactics. | | | One variation of the tactic would entail asking the vice president or a member of the majority presiding over the chamber to issue a ruling from the chair invalidating filibusters of judicial nominees. | | | Senate Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said he agreed with conservatives that the Senate rules should be rewritten soon to invalidate filibusters of judicial nominees. |
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http://www.hillnews.com/news/072104/frist.aspx
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| | The Shortest Path to Filibuster Web Sites |
| | ABC News: Primer: Judicial Nominees and the Filibuster | | | Several prominent Democratic senators called for a filibuster of Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination yesterday, exposing a deep divide in the party even as they delighted the party's liberal base. | | | Democrats chose not to filibuster Sutton in effect raising the bar from 51 to 60 votes to achieve confirmation... |
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http://www.shortestpath.us/easy/Filibuster
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| | ThisNation.com--What is a filibuster? |
| | In the spring of 1976, Senators James Allen (D, Alabama) and Roman Hruska (R, Nebraska) developed a way to "filibuster by amendment" on an antitrust bill. | | | Why are they permitted in the Senate but not the House? | | | Opponents to reform efforts argue that they will damage the Senate's ability to be a more deliberative chamber. |
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| | TigerHawk |
| | The official TigerHawk position on the filibuster, by the way, is that it would be a mistake for the Republicans, in a moment of ephemeral ascendancy, to abolish it even for judicial nominations. | | | He could take the position that the Republicans are merely rolling back the "worst excesses" of the long period of Democratic majority in the Congress, and that filibusters will still be possible if Senators are willing to lay it all on the line. | | | As long as they can get 41 senators in the tank that day, the filibuster holds; as soon as they come up short, the filibustered motion comes to a vote. |
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http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2005/05/filibustering-frist.html
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| | A Democratic attempt to filibuster the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. | | | John F. Kerry and Edward M. Kennedy launched the filibuster drive last week in what they described as a last-ditch effort to halt the confirmation of Alito, a federal appeals court judge that liberals have charged is a conservative ideologue who will shift the Supreme Court to the right. | | | Everyone knew they didn't have the 41 votes to sustain a filibuster of President Bush's Supreme Court nominee. |
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=filibuster
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| | The Seattle Times: Politics: Cheney weighs in as filibuster fight rolls on |
| | Cheney, however, promised to use his constitutional role as the Senate's presiding officer to keep Democrats from preventing a full Senate vote on Owen, Brown and other judicial nominees. | | | Speaking before the Republican National Lawyers Association, Cheney accused Senate Democrats of upsetting tradition, saying no group of senators in U.S. history had used a filibuster, a parliamentary maneuver, to block a judicial nomination supported by a majority of the Senate. | | | His comments came one day after the Senate Judiciary Committee approved, on a party-line vote, two state judges for federal appellate courts: Priscilla Owen of Texas and Janice Rogers Brown of California. |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2002250680_judges23.html
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| | Byron York on Senate & Judges on National Review Online |
| | Owen, a Texas state supreme-court justice who is being considered for a place on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last month on a straight party-line vote. | | | The issue has taken on new urgency because Republicans are pushing ahead with efforts to bring the nomination of Priscilla Owen to the Senate floor for a final confirmation vote. | | | Or should they filibuster Owen based on objections to the way the White House and Senate Republicans have handled the nominations process? |
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http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york041403.asp
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| | The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town |
| | Whether the judicial filibuster stays or goes is for the Senate to determine; no matter what the arguments, there is next to no possibility that the Supreme Court would take it upon itself to overrule whatever the Senate decides in the matter. | | | The battle in the United States Senate over judicial filibusters has been a field day for martial metaphors (such as “field day,” an eighteenth-century term for a day of military exercises). | | | Conservatives’ insistence that judicial filibusters are uniquely reprehensible has it backward. |
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http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/050613ta_talk_hertzberg
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| | BBC NEWS Americas Right to ramble splits US Senate |
| | There is a plot afoot to ban the filibuster on one particular issue - Senate approval for President Bush's judicial nominations. | | | According to the Almanac of American Politics, 87-year-old Robert Byrd comes closer than anyone other to the kind of senator the founding fathers had in mind. | | | Mr Frist has taken the bold step of allying himself with evangelical Christians who desperately want President Bush's conservative judges to get into the courts and start dispensing their kind of justice. |
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| | Democrats uphold Bolton filibuster - Nation/Politics - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper |
| | The Senate yesterday failed to break a Democrat-led filibuster against President Bush's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, leaving John R. Bolton at an impasse and setting up the possibility of a recess appointment. | | | He was the only Republican in favor of the filibuster, while three Democrats opposed it both yesterday and on May 26 -- Sens. | | | Republican George V. Voinovich, who in May voted against the filibuster, yesterday voted along with most Democrats in support of the filibuster. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050621-121515-4570r.htm
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| | Congress |
| | A Senate rule called a filibuster allows a minority of senators to block a final vote on a judicial appointment even if a majority of senators supports the nominee. | | | Republicans want to eliminate the filibuster rule for judges, saying it's unfair that a minority can block a vote by the full Senate. | | | Do you favor or oppose changing the rules of the Senate to stop the use of filibusters against judicial nominees? |
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| | CNN.com - GOP sets up showdown over Alito - Jan 27, 2006 |
| | With their support, and with the 55 Senate Republicans expected to oppose any filibuster, GOP leaders would need to find only one more Democrat to thwart a filibuster attempt. | | | He announced his decision to support a filibuster Wednesday at a meeting of his Democratic colleagues. | | | The White House expressed confidence that Alito's supporters had the 60 votes needed to cut off a filibuster, a maneuver allowed under Senate rules to block a vote by extending debate indefinitely. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/26/alito
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| | FilibusterFrist.com - Filibuster for Democracy |
| | We protested Senator Frist's proposal to eliminate the judicial filibuster in the Senate (the "nuclear option"). | | | Watch an animation of the extraordinary support of students for the filibuster! | | | Call or write the Senators below to urge them to support the filibuster in the future. |
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| | GOA -- Your Pressure Heating Up The "Nuclear Option" Filibuster Debate |
| | Soon, the showdown will arrive on whether to abolish the U.S. Senate filibuster in order to expedite the confirmation of seven judicial nominees. | | | This means that a vote to tamper with the filibuster will make comprehensive gun control inevitable. | | | Ask him to oppose the "nuclear option" and leave the Senate filibuster rules intact. |
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| | ProfessorBainbridge.com: More on The Filibuster Deal |
| | Well, that was fun while it lasted: Fourteen Republican and Democratic senators announced this evening they had reached a compromise designed to prevent a showdown over President Bush’s judicial nominations. | | | In this case, what we have is a power grab by the Legislative branch on a cowardly deal brokered by 7 "moderate" Republicans that makes the party as a whole look as if it were willing to surrend... | | | Tracked on May 23, 2005 9:25:33 PM » Trust is at the center of a Senate filibuster compromise from Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator |
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| | Homefront Six: Filibuster |
| | A Filibuster is the term used for an extended debate in the Senate which has the effect of preventing a vote. | | | And we have the spectacle of (b) Democratic Senators such as Patrick Leahy supporting the 60-vote filibuster rule now, but having said on for instance June 18, 1998: "I have stated over and over again on this (Senate) floor that I would. | | | object and fight against any filibuster on a judge." |
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| | Filibustering Judicial Nominations, __ Cardozo Law Review __ (forthcoming 2004) (with Erwin Chemerinsky). | | | The Filibuster, Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, Supplement II (2000) (with Erwin Chemerinsky). | | | The Filibuster, 49 Stanford Law Review 181 (1997) (with Erwin Chemerinsky). |
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| | Sirotablog: The Filibuster's Untold Story |
| | FILIBUSTER THREAT TO STOP ENERGY DEREGULATION: In 1981, Senators threatened to filibuster radical legislation to deregulate the nation’s natural gas industry - a filibuster clearly ahead of its time, considering the recent energy crises. | | | The Republican Party is trying to use history as a reason to eliminate Senators' ability to filibuster (aka. | | | FILIBUSTER PROTECTED WORKERS: In 1995, CongressDaily reported Senators "successfully filibustered the FY95 rescissions bill, which included language to overturn President Clinton's order that prohibited federal contractors from hiring permanent striker replacements." Clinton's order was considered an important way to preserve workers' rights. |
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| | Filibuster - Encyclopedia.com - Results for filibuster |
| | Filibuster Majority Leader Bill Frist and right-wing Republicans in the Senate are Campus Progress’ Campus Debate Crib Sheet: The Filibuster is a great | | | Promoting an American public policy based on individual liberty, limited government, free markets and peaceful international relations. | | | FOXNews.com - Politics - Dems Won't Filibuster Gonzales |
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| | filibuster - definition of filibuster by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | filibuster - a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes | | | He is fitted to deal with the political filibusters of other cabinets, and it would be a pity therefore to employ him on our internal detective police. | | | To use a filibuster against (a legislative measure, for example). |
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| | filibuster - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | This is a OneLook Word of the Day, which means it might be in the news. | | | filibuster : Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] | | | filibuster : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] |
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| | Filibuster (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. | | | a Filibuster Bar is ice cream on a stick covered with chocolate resembling a Hershey's Kiss. | | | Filibuster (band) is a ska band on the Skunk Records label. |
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| | U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Glossary > filibuster |
| | filibuster - Informal term for any attempt to block or delay Senate action on a bill or other matter by debating it at length, by offering numerous procedural motions, or by any other delaying or obstructive actions. | | | Links are arranged broadly by subject and may take you to PDF documents, useful sources on the Web, or other Senate Web pages. | | | U.S. Senate: Reference Home > Glossary > filibuster |
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| | Filibuster Cartoons |
| | I thank you for sticking with me even during all this uncertainty, and hope you will continue to read for a long time to come. | | | I have also added a couple new editorials to my "Articles" page, which was a bit lax. | | | But, I've now started work on it again, and have a new page done. |
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| | Filibuster at opensource encyclopedia |
| | If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page. | | | "Filibuster" in world wide web people finder » |
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