Saturday, June 1, 2013

Why the nuclear option on filibuster nominations is necessary




 Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, explains it all in the Huffington Post.


BREAKING COURT NEWS: President Does Job. Republicans Set Hair on Fire.


A part of this piece:
 
"One has to hand it to the Republicans; they are the masters of creative obstructionism. No one in American history has come up with so many clever ways to use Senate procedures as partisan bludgeons. No argument is too ludicrous. No procedural gimmick too outrageous. No deception too preposterous. Don't want the Democratic president to make the judicial appointments the Constitution entitles him to? Just eliminate the seats! Don't want a legal star like Caitlin Halligan to sit on the bench? Don't let her get a vote! Don't want big-business interests to lose in court? Make sure the conservative firewall in the D.C. Circuit is never challenged!"

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