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[QUOTE]Washington (CNN) -- The Senate Monday voted narrowly to end a filibuster of President Barack Obama's pick for the California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a key Republican argued the judge was too sympathetic to criminal defendants and, based on his writings about Roe v. Wade, might be a judicial activist. By a vote of 60 to 31, the Senate got the minimum number of votes needed to move forward on the nomination of Andrew Hurwitz, a justice currently serving on the Supreme Court of Arizona. Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said he opposed Hurwitz because the justice was the lone dissenter in an Arizona Supreme Court decision last year that denied a new trial to a man accused of shooting to death a 4-year-old boy in 1989. Grassley said Hurwitz ruled for the new trial because the accused might have suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder from his time serving in the Vietnam War. In addition, Grassley said Hurwitz's authored a law review article in 2002 praising the rulings of a Connecticut federal judge, for whom he clerked, that formed the underpinnings of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade abortion decision. "Hurwitz's article was clearly an attempt to attribute great significance to decisions in which the judge for whom he clerked had participated. I think by any fair measure, it is impossible to read Justice Hurwitz's article and not conclude that he wholeheartedly embraces Roe, and importantly, the constitutional arguments that supposedly support it," Grassley said on the Senate floor. "He takes this view despite near universal agreement, among both liberal and conservative legal scholars, that Roe is one of the worst examples of judicial activism in our nation's history," Grassley said. Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, defended Hurwitz and said Republicans didn't want him on the bench because of the rulings the Connecticut federal judge, Jon Newman, made while Hurwitz clerked for him. "Some are attempting to disqualify a nominee with impeccable credentials because a federal judge for who that nominee clerked 40 years ago decided a case with which they disagree," Leahy said. "They are against Roe vs. Wade and oppose the constitutional rights of women and of privacy recognized in that case. That is their right. What is not their right is them attributing responsibility for the judge's decision, which properly construed the Constitution, in my view, to his clerk," Leahy said. It was not immediately clear when the Senate would give final confirmation of the judge but it is likely to happen later this week.[/quote] Source: [url]http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/politics/senate-judge-filibuster/index.html[/url]
Filibuster is the stupidest concept ever [editline]12th June 2012[/editline] Obama would be like the master ultra president who accomplished everything if the filibuster did not exist.
[QUOTE=person11;36310802]Filibuster is the stupidest concept ever [editline]12th June 2012[/editline] Obama would be like the master ultra president who accomplished everything if the filibuster did not exist.[/QUOTE] While you can say whatever you want about Obama, but the only reason why he hasn't gotten much done is because the Republicans cock-block everything that anyone tries to do. They're terrified of him getting re-elected, because then he'd be able to do whatever he wants with worrying about getting re-elected.
In a world without the Filibuster, the sky is more blue, the birds sing louder, Obama gained the ability to fly, will win the election, and I would get laid. damn filibusters and republicans blocking everything with a minority in the senate
Republicans are the butt plug of america
not even in a good way
[QUOTE=Lambeth;36311038]Republicans are the butt plug of america[/QUOTE] clogged thunder bucket
[QUOTE=person11;36310873]In a world without the Filibuster, the sky is more blue, the birds sing louder, Obama gained the ability to fly, will win the election, [b]and I would get laid[/b]. damn filibusters and republicans blocking everything with a minority in the senate[/QUOTE] Republicans cock blockin like a mothafucka.
They should go back to the old way of doing a fillibuster. Someone has to keep talking to keep the vote from going forward... I wonder how many republicans would overwork their vocal cords by talking too much because of it?
filibuster is the most retarded thing ever. its like a loophole someone found then we never really fixed it. like come on you just have to talk about random shit. i remember that someone brought a recipe book and read every single page in one filibuster. I think there was a pic of cots in the room for them to relax on while the filibuster was going on. Most fucking retarded concept ever.
Modern filibusters aren't like that. Same amount of cockblocking without the effort
[QUOTE=Reds;36310851]While you can say whatever you want about Obama, but the only reason why he hasn't gotten much done is because the Republicans cock-block everything that anyone tries to do[/QUOTE] Yes, because he didn't have a democrat majority in both the house and senate when he came into office...
[QUOTE=Funcoot;36311909]Yes, because he didn't have a democrat majority in both the house and senate when he came into office...[/QUOTE]You don't have to have a majority to filibuster.
After googling the concept of Filibusters, I am proud to say that Australia has strict laws against how long you can speak in the parliament, and therefore you cannot Filibuster. Woo.
[QUOTE=person11;36311722]Modern filibusters aren't like that. Same amount of cockblocking without the effort[/QUOTE] Filibusters in the UK are like the 'old way'. Recently we had the House of Lords trying to Filibuster the NHS legislation (IIRC) and some of the lords stayed there and talked for 2 or more hours.
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;36312102]You don't have to have a majority to filibuster.[/QUOTE] I know that used extensively in the 110th Congress, but still. I don't think Obama was ambitious enough and used the majority to the fullest, and I bet he is regretting it now.
I would love to have the old filibuster back. I know how to talk for hours
filibuster is a silly term
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