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  • Everything you wanted to know about the "nuclear option"

    If the Republicans are as good as their word, it's going to be much uglier than you think.
    By Tim Grieve May 12, 2005

  • What the Founders warned against

    The nuclear option is just the latest maneuver by a party still seeking absolute power.
    By Joe Conason May 12, 2005

  • The Frist test

    A coalition of university students take time out from their studies to filibuster in Washington.
    By Page Rockwell May 11, 2005

  • Frist eager to go all in on judges

    Gearing up for a vote on the judicial filibuster, the Senate Majority Leader gets some special treatment from the New York Times.
    By Eric Boehlert May 11, 2005

  • Nuclear rumblings

    Another Republican acknowledges his party's past sins on judges. Senators from both sides work toward a compromise, but Frist and his allies on the far right aren't giving up yet.
    By Tim Grieve May 10, 2005

  • A kinder, gentler nuke

    An eminently qualified former judge weighs in with a "fair" solution to the Senate's standoff
    By Mark Follman May 9, 2005

  • A nuclear compromise?

    Roll Call says a group of senators are near a deal to avert a showdown over Bush's judicial nominees.
    By Tim Grieve May 9, 2005

  • Bill Frist's nervous nuclear calculations

    Saying that Republicans' hands "aren't clean" on judicial nominees, GOP Sen. Chuck Hagel leans hard against the nuclear option.
    By Tim Grieve May 9, 2005

  • Right Hook

    Wall Street Journal sees a Waco ending for Dems' filibuster "cult." Victor Hanson sees the upside of anti-Americanism. Plus: Sean Hannity dishes out marriage advice to the Runaway Groom.
    By Mark Follman May 5, 2005

  • Terrorizing the judiciary

    How much invective from Pat Robertson & Co. can the Republicans stand up for? MoveOn.org asks TV audiences from Texas to Washington.
    By Page Rockwell May 5, 2005

  • Taming the anti-filibuster flock?

    Times columnist David Brooks invokes Abraham Lincoln to stop the religious right from going nuclear.
    By Mark Follman May 5, 2005

  • Entangling alliances

    The man running a "national coalition" pushing the nuclear option is the former aide to Bill Frist who resigned after accessing Democratic strategy memos on Bush's judges.
    By Tim Grieve May 5, 2005

  • What have you done for me lately?

    The right grows impatient with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
    By Tim Grieve May 4, 2005

  • The latest on the filibuster front

    The Senate is in recess this week, but there's no letting up on the battle over the judicial filibuster.
    By Page Rockwell May 2, 2005

  • "An American heresy"

    Former Vice President Al Gore says the GOP push to dismantle the filibuster is part of a larger movement to undermine the founding principles of the United States.
    April 27, 2005

  • Frist fingers the button again

    The Republican senator says there'll be no deals with the Dems over Bush's judicial nominees.
    By Mark Follman April 26, 2005

  • The right to impose Christianity

    The religious right worked itself into a righteous fury at "Justice Sunday," using the stalemate over judges to tar Democrats as enemies of God.
    By Michelle Goldberg April 25, 2005

  • Cheney puts his finger on the button

    Bracing for all-out partisan warfare over Bush's judicial nominees.
    By Mark Follman April 22, 2005

  • Taking odds on the nuclear option

    Bill Frist could put the nuclear option on the Senate floor as early as next week. Does he have the votes to win?
    By Tim Grieve April 20, 2005

  • Doing the math on judicial nominees

    The Senate confirms Bush's 205th judge.
    By Tim Grieve April 12, 2005

  • Will Terri Schiavo kill the nuclear option?

    The Schiavo case makes it both more likely and less likely that Republicans will move to end the filibuster of judicial nominees.
    By Tim Grieve April 8, 2005

  • Down with the judicial tyrants who are killing Terri Schiavo!

    Oops -- most of them are Republican. Never mind.
    By Joe Conason March 25, 2005

  • Terri Schiavo and the fight over Bush's judges

    If the solution to an "out of control" federal judiciary is the appointment of more Republican judges, the Schiavo case doesn't provide much evidence of it.
    By Tim Grieve March 24, 2005

  • A bit of backbone on Bush nominees

    By Tim Grieve March 2, 2005

  • The Supreme Court short list

    By Tim Grieve February 22, 2005
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