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Steven Lubet

Misplaying the filibuster

By Steven Lubet
April 26, 2005

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THE BATTLE over President Bush's judicial appointments has started to look like a high-stakes poker game, with each side continuing to raise the ante while daring the other to go ''all in." Senate Democrats seem determined to continue their filibusters of the president's most extreme nominees, while Republicans are increasingly threatening to employ the so-called ''nuclear option," simply abolishing the ... (Full article: 768 words)

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