Sentences with phrase «judicial filibuster»

Or has the Senate changed the rules without officially changing the written rules, like they did with judicial filibusters?

Here he was in 2005, pleading with Senate Republicans to change the rules to forbid judicial filibusters:

Not exact matches

Republicans need just a simple 51 - vote total to confirm a judicial nominee after the filibuster on lower - level court judicial nominees was killed by Democrats when they last controlled the Senate in an effort to help move along some of Obama's nominees more quickly.

Moreover, when the Senate changed its filibuster rules in 2013, so that judicial nominees were exempt, the change did not extend to Supreme Court nominees.

@KDog - Look at the historical record - filibusters invoked, the number of judicial nominations that were passed / filled historically.

In November 2013, Senate Democrats used the nuclear option to eliminate filibusters on executive branch nominations and federal judicial appointments other than those to the Supreme Court.

On November 21, 2013, the Senate used the so - called «nuclear option», voting 52 - 48 — with all Republicans and three Democrats voting against — to eliminate the use of the filibuster on executive branch nominees and judicial nominees, except to the Supreme Court.

The answer is that since November 2013 a simple majority has sufficed because of the Senate's decision to end the use of the filibuster in respect of all nominees to Federal judicial and executive branch positions other than to the Supreme Court itself.

Axelrod also said Sunday that Senate Republicans should not filibuster Sotomayor's nomination, even though Democrats in the Senate have mounted filibusters against Republican judicial nominees in recent years.

Congress also uses modifications of straight Robert's Rules voting like the filibuster, holds, Senatorial privilege for judicial appointments, supermajority voting on treaties, «fast track voting» without amendments and similar variants.

«As a member of the bipartisan «Gang of 14,» I will follow our agreement that judicial nominees should be filibustered only under extraordinary circumstances,» Nelson said in a statement.

A Brown victory would instantly deny Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid the 60 - vote super-majority he needs in order to prevent the Republican Senators from filibustering key votes on healthcare reform and the President's judicial nominees.

She was twice nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, only to see her first nomination filibustered and her second sunk by charges of judicial activism by Senate Republicans over gun industry litigation during her time as solicitor general.

He also led Sierra Club's work on judicial nominations, including the filibusters of 2003 — 2006 and litigation over the constitutionality of recess appointments for federal judges, and was counsel in In re Cheney.

Of course, in light of the current composition of the U.S. Senate and the current President, and the precedent that the «nuclear option» can abolish the filibuster for some kinds of judicial appointments (a parliamentary ruling which is almost surely not justiciable due to express language vesting procedural questions in the U.S. Senate in the Senate and not the courts in the U.S. Constitution), this question is unlikely to present itself any time soon.

As someone who can watch these developments unfold at something of a comfortable distance, what are your views on the judicial confirmation battles underway in the U.S. Senate, the use of filibusters, and the use of recess appointments to place filibustered nominees onto the federal appellate courts?