While we can all be happy that the filibuster is finally dead, let's also pay attention to just who Obama is nominating to these judgeships. Such as Patricia Millet, designer of Starbucks anti-union campaign: “I find it troubling, because Ms. Millett and her firm Akin Gump...
For spearheading this filibuster reform effort, Jeff Merkley rises into the upper echelon of Oregon senators, along with people like Wayne Morse and Mark Hatfield.
Shorter Dana Milbank: Since American political history started in 2013, it is clear that the United States Senate is a much more effective and functional legislative body than the House.
Johnathan Adler is the latest Republican to threaten to do things that Republicans have already been doing and will continue to do: On the bright side, the era of super-majority votes for judicial nominees is over, and I look forward to seeing the slate of nominees...
I had just turned four, didn't speak any English at the time, and my parents didn't own a TV (although my father went out and rented one from the corner.
Apparently, this past summer an "original documentary" aired somewhere in the depths of cable pushing a TWA 800 conspiracy, and this article critiques this "three missile theory". Conspiracy theories, by.
On further reflection, I still see this as a massive win. I'm amused by the Republican counter-threats to nominate...exactly the same kind of judges they've been nominating and getting confirmed since the Reagan administration when they're in charge. I'll take that risk! The interesting question, to...
The filibuster for circuit and district court nominees and executive branch appointments is gone. Never thought I'd see the day, and this will almost certainly be the most important vote.
Earlier in the month we discussed the phenomenon of Republican judges citing each other's dicta as if they constituted some kind of meaningful precedent. Well, this winger chain mail now.
Could this really be happening? Senate Democrats are on the verge of moving to eliminate the use of the filibuster against most presidential nominees, aides and senior party leaders said Wednesday, a move that would deprive Republicans of their ability to block President Obama’s picks for...
A couple of Thursday links... Thers does a great job of pointing out the authoritarianism lurking beneath David French’s act of charity. But I think there’s a lot more going.
Um, yes. The two proposals differ a bit in the details, but they use roughly the same mechanism to reach the same goal, so we'll go with Demos's proposal (described.