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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Good old fashioned filibuster.
Filibusters were a good way of keeping fringe nominees off the bench and avoiding the kind of politicization we have today. Any number of divisive nominees were never put forward from fear of a filibuster. I'd love to see more consensus around court choices in general.
I know, bipartisanship is hard. Boo-hoo.
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He was the first appeals court nominee in history to be successfully filibustered. Perhaps he should have been given an up or down vote, as was being demanded for Garland, but that would require intellectual honesty, no? Per the Senate Judiciary Committee internal strategy memos, Estrada was filibustered because he "is Latino" and was being groomed for SCOTUS. (See
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106877910996248300 and let me hear more complaints about the Federalist Society involvement in the process.)
Bipartisanship is even harder when one party seems to think they'll be in the majority forever when they pull the pin on the nuclear option.
