"Although it is funny that most young people think
filibustering is a slang sex term, I think it reveals a deeper problem that most 18- to 25-year-olds aren't engaged or educated in politics enough."
But, as we discuss in Part II, the procedures that comprise the conventional option have been used throughout the history of the House and Senate to limit
filibustering. Indeed, it has been the most common, conventional method of reforming the filibuster.
Changes that balance limits on
filibustering with increased protection for minorities in other areas have the potential to ratchet down polarization and partisan recrimination.
filibustering exist because Senate Rules deliberately lack provisions
--"[If] any Member [who signed the accord] considered that another Member was
filibustering a judge under a circumstance that was not extraordinary, [then] any Member had the right to pull out of that agreement and to go back and say: I am going to use the constitutional option to change ...
The
filibustering against Myers, who was blocked last term and renominated for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco, centers on the fact that when he was a lobbyist for mining and grazing interests during the 1990s, he dared to raise his voice against autocratic federal regulators.
FILIBUSTERING JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS DOES NOT VIOLATE A PRESIDENT'S NOMINATING AUTHORITY
(34) On May 6, 2003, I chaired a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights to examine the constitutional issues presented by the
filibustering of judicial nominees.
Smith Goes To Washington" Geoghegan describes staying up, one hot and sticky Chicago night, and working out some numbers in front of a fan about how few people a
filibustering Senate faction can represent.
federal authorities for breaking
filibustering laws.
No present unwritten rule of the Senate, then, restrains today's senators from excessive
filibustering. So, the authors of this book think that the Senate's written rules must be changed to do so.
Smith Goes to Washington to the contentious civil rights debates of the 1960's, the American public has witnessed the practice of
filibustering in the Senate with both scorn and adoration.
