Filibusters Senate Legislative Branch Government

This essay includes a discussion of, essentially, allowing a minority of three supreme court justices to filibuster any attempt by the other justices to strike down a statute.

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• Jefferson on Politics & Government: Majority Rule - Jefferson\\'s political philosophy in his own words. Contains the founding principles of American self-government.
• FindLaw's Writ: With a Potential Supreme Court Nomination At Stake, Questions of The Filibuster's Constitutionality Linger - Part I of article by Professor Vikram Amar analyzing the senate ability of the U.S. Senate to change its filibuster rules senate by a simple majority vote, instead of by the 2/3 senate vote specified in Senate Rule 22.
• Free Republic: Frist Backs Rule Change on Judges - Describes various strategies to overcome filibusters of judicial nominees in legislative branch the U.S. Senate, such as a rule change or extending legislative branch the legislative day.
• Floyd Riddick on Cloture and Filibusters - Interview with a former Senate Parliamentarian, including discussion of whether the Senate is a "continuing body."[PDF]
• The Jellyphants: Invertebrate GOP abandons Miguel Estrada - Senate Republicans are criticized for not standing up filibusters to defend Miguel Estrada and his nomination to filibusters be a federal appeals court judge.
• Senate Resolution 138 of the 108th Congress - The text of an amendment to U.S. Senate Rule 22 regarding filibusters of judicial nominees.
• WBUR.org : The Filibuster Battle - Recording from a radio show debating the fairness filibusters of using filibusters a filibuster.
• The Supreme Court and the Constitution - This essay includes a discussion of, essentially, allowing legislative branch a minority of three supreme court justices to legislative branch filibuster any attempt by the other justices to legislative branch strike down a statute.
• Briefing on Filibuster and Cloture - Background information from the U.S. Senate Historian.
• CBN News: Stemming the Tide of Judicial Activism - Interview with C. Boyden Gray, former White House senate counsel to senate George H.W. Bush.
• Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: The Constitutional Option - Martin Gold and Dimple Gupta describe ways for legislative branch a simple majority of Senators to change the legislative branch text or interpretation of Senate rules, without being legislative branch stopped by a filibuster.[PDF]
• FindLaw's Writ: Can the Senate Bind Itself So that Only a Supermajority Can Change Its Rules? - Part II of article by Professor Vikram Amar discussing a legislative branch so-called nuclear option to end filibusters of judicial nominees in legislative branch the U.S. Senate.
• National Review: Crisis Mode - Senator Orrin G. Hatch presents a "fair and legislative branch constitutional option to beat the filibuster game."
• The American Thinker: Judicial Nominee filibusters and Senate Rules - Contends that filibusters of nominees violate US Senate senate Rule 31.
• Judicial Nominations, Filibusters, and the Constitution - May 6, 2003 U.S. Senate hearing report.[PDF]
• The Case Against the Senate Filibuster - Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson argued that filibusters filibusters of legislation senate should be eliminated.
• Filibuster Derails Supreme Court Appointment - Article from the United States Senate.
• Wikipedia: Filibuster - Includes an overview and history.

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