Byron York - Eye-for-an-eye filibuster stops Democratic nominee
By: 05/19/11 8:05 PM
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Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/eye-eye-filibuster-stops-democratic-nominee
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Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/eye-eye-filibuster-stops-democratic-nominee
If there's one place where what goes around comes around, it's the United States Senate. Goodwin Liu, the Berkeley law professor nominated by President Obama to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, is the latest to learn that lesson.
Liu's nomination was blocked by a Republican filibuster Thursday -- the first successful filibuster against a judicial nominee since Democrats stopped all 10 of George W. Bush's appeals court nominees from 2003 to 2005. Although no one back then could have predicted that today's fight would be about Liu, everyone knew it was going to happen sometime. Once Democrats crossed the line to filibuster those Bush nominees, you could bet Republicans would strike back. And now they have.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/05/eye-eye-filibuster-stops-democratic-nominee*****
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