It looks like this will happen, not the off-topic stuff you guys dumped on this thread, but eliminating the filibuster for judicial appointments. The Republicans are so determined to stack the Federal bench with their ideological clones that they are willing to crush age-old Senate tradition in the process. Evidence of further deterioration in the carefully balanced system the Founders established.
http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/expo.../santorum.html Quote:
Sen. Rick Santorum (Pa.), the chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, has reassured conservative activist leaders that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) is committed to triggering the “nuclear option,” stripping Democrats of the power to filibuster judicial nominees.
Santorum met the leaders Tuesday to dispel growing anxiety among conservatives that Frist was wavering over what some Republicans call the “constitutional” or “Byrd” option — a procedural tactic that would disallow judicial filibusters by a ruling of the Senate chair and a ratifying majority vote.
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