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Questions of The Filibuster's Constitutionality Linger
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 18:31:35 -0400
------ Forwarded Message From: Joseph Lorenzo Hall <jhall () astron berkeley edu> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:52:20 -0700 (PDT) To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Questions of The Filibuster's Constitutionality Linger (pls remove email, thanks) http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/20030613.html With a Potential Supreme Court Nomination At Stake, Questions of The Filibuster's Constitutionality Linger By VIKRAM DAVID AMAR This is Part One of a two-part series by Professor Amar on the Constitution and the filibuster. - Ed. Republican Senate leaders have been voicing extreme dissatisfaction over the Democrats' use of the filibuster to block final consideration of President Bush's candidates - such as Miguel Estrada and Priscilla Owen - for the federal appellate bench. Over the last week, in particular, things have heated up quite a bit. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has proposed significant changes to the rules regarding filibusters. And on June 5, the Senate Rules and Administration Committee held some remarkable hearings on the filibuster. Prior to the hearings, the debate had focused on the history and politics of the filibuster. (Both were the subjects of a recent column for this site by John Dean.) In contrast, last week's Committee questioning centered more on various interesting and profound constitutional questions surrounding the practice, which I will take up in this two-part series of columns. These questions are going to get more and more important, as the summer nears, and the possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy looms. <...> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Joseph Lorenzo Hall Graduate Student http://astron.berkeley.edu/~jhall Please don't send Word documents via email! Why? http://astron.berkeley.edu/~jhall/export/attachments.html Please consider using PDFs instead. How? http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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