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Originally Posted by SEC_Chick
Can you refresh my recollection as to the how the vote for Miguel Estrada went?
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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.
