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Let's see what a Pulitzer Prize winner has to say..
http://tinyurl.com/du9rp


http://mediamatters.org/items/200503160004

The Los Angeles Times reported on November 13, 2003: "As recently as
March 2000, several Republicans voted to filibuster two Californians
whom President Clinton had named to the 9th Circuit appellate court:
Richard A. Paez and Marsha L. Berzon. ... Ultimately, the Republican
stalling tactics failed, and both jurists now sit on the appellate
court."

As stated in the opinion piece I linked to it was voted down 3-1 by
Republicans.

The Washington Post documented a third attempted filibuster of
a Clinton judicial nominee on October 5, 1994: The Senate "voted 85 to
12 to cut off a filibuster against confirmation of U.S. District Judge
H. Lee Sarokin as a member of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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While CLinton was President the REpublicans relied on a variety of
procedural tricks to keep SIXTY FIVE (65) Judicial nominess from
coming up for a vote before the Senate. Most never even got a
commitee hearing.

By using the "Blue Slip Rule" which allows a senator from the judges home
state to block the nomination. A rule which both parties have used
extensively.


In the thirty years prior to this administration there have been
on average about one fillibuster of a judicial nominee per
Congressional session.


From Krauthammer today:

[There has certainly never been a successful filibuster in the case of a
judicial nominee who clearly had the approval of a majority of the
Senate. And there has surely never been a campaign like the one
undertaken by the Democrats since 2001 to systematically deny judicial
appointment by means of the filibuster.]


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Dan