Understand The Filibuster
Senator Kennedy, Byrd and others in the Senate are going to filibuster the up or down vote on President Bush's judge nominations. Now understand, the filibuster is used to stall the debate of legislation. In the past, this consisted of a Senator taking the floor and speaking until there was no more time to debate and vote on a particular issue.
Keep in mind, if the filibuster is not used, that allows normal debate and voting on legislation. It does not mean instant approval or denial of said legislation.
So if the minority Senators chose not to filibuster, the only thing that would happen is that they would be able to vote up or down on the nominees. This same tactic was used to block civil rights legislation for many years. It wasn't right then, and it's not right now.
2 Comments:
So Bush is going to nominate the same judges which were already rejected?
What's wrong with this guy?
Actually no. The judges have not had a chance to be confirmed or rejected because they haven't been voted on yet.
President Bush nominated his choices and the Senate minority is filibustering. As long as there is a filibuster, they cannot be voted on one way or the other.
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