Shorter David Brooks: Placing legislative decisions in the hands of a minority is bad, because it robs conservative majorities of their democratic rights. Allowing minorities to control legislative decisions is good, because it enables conservative minorities to stop expansions of federal power.
Posted by Paul at April 21, 2005 03:06 PMUp until now, minorities have generally not used the filibuster to defeat nominees that have majority support. They have allowed nominees to have an up or down vote. But this tradition has been washed away.Is he doing a very bad job of saying "historically the filibuster wasn't used on judicial nominees"? Or is he truly saying that historically, the only nominees who were filibustered were those who would have lost anyway had a majority vote occurred? Posted by: Aaron at April 21, 2005 04:48 PM
Good one.
Posted by: Scott Lemieux at April 22, 2005 11:25 AMIt makes as much sense as Bobos.He needs a beating as well.
Posted by: Troutsky at April 24, 2005 01:04 AM