AtomicKitten
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Thu Jan-05-06 03:30 PM
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Dems Don't Plan Alito Filibuster -- It'll be a Surprise! |
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Edited on Thu Jan-05-06 03:35 PM by AtomicKitten
http://www.thinkprogress.org/Excerpts: It takes 40 votes to sustain a filibuster. With the Senate split with 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats and one Democratic-voting independent, Democrats could launch an Alito filibuster on their own without a single Republican vote.
And the tool says he will use the tool:
Republicans say they're ready to fight if Democrats try a partisan filibuster, including the so-called nuclear option, which would let the GOP ban judicial filibusters. "I will use all the tools I have to simply get an up-or-down vote on the floor of the Senate for the president's judicial nominees," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said last month.
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54 of 'em, not counting himself.
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