Filibuster

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A nuclear compromise?
Roll Call says a group of senators are near a deal to avert a showdown over Bush's judicial nominees.
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.
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.
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.
Taming the anti-filibuster flock?
Times columnist David Brooks invokes Abraham Lincoln to stop the religious right from going nuclear.
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.
What have you done for me lately?
The right grows impatient with Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
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.
"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.
Frist fingers the button again
The Republican senator says there'll be no deals with the Dems over Bush's judicial nominees.
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.
Cheney puts his finger on the button
Bracing for all-out partisan warfare over Bush's judicial nominees.
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?
Doing the math on judicial nominees
The Senate confirms Bush's 205th judge.
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.
Down with the judicial tyrants who are killing Terri Schiavo!
Oops -- most of them are Republican. Never mind.
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.
A bit of backbone on Bush nominees
The Supreme Court short list
The cowboy judge
Environmentalists hope Senate Democrats will block Bush's new ranch-friendly judicial nominee, but a filibuster might suit the Bush administration just fine.
Three cheers for the Democrats' filibuster
It's time to depoliticize the judicial appointment process.
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