The Heritage Foundation
by Todd Gaziano and Andrew Kloster
January 24, 2013

This afternoon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced a potential filibuster deal that, among other problematic provisions, limits post-cloture debate on federal district court nominees (and non-Cabinet-level officials).

Senators currently have up to 30 hours of post-cloture debate on the merits of a district court nominee; the new rule would permit only two hours. This proposal would seriously undermine the rights of sitting senators to call attention to problematic district court nominees and, as a consequence, would enable the President to make more philosophically questionable and professionally unqualified nominations in the future.

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http://blog.heritage.org/2013/01/24/fili...icial-nominees/

Hey, when the Republicans have control of the Senate and Presidency and want to nominate Sarah Palin for USSC, this will come in handy.

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Hey, when the Republicans have control of the Senate and Presidency and want to nominate Sarah Palin for USSC, this will come in handy.

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Hey, when the Republicans have control of the Senate and Presidency and want to nominate Sarah Palin for USSC, this will come in handy.

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And when the Titanic arrives in New York, we'll have a big party . . .

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Hey, when the Republicans have control of the Senate and Presidency and want to nominate Sarah Palin for USSC, this will come in handy.

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And when the Titanic arrives in New York, we'll have a big party . . .

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I'm joking of course. Just saying that the Democrats will cry and scream like little girls when this is used against them.

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Hey, when the Republicans have control of the Senate and Presidency and want to nominate Sarah Palin for USSC, this will come in handy.

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And when the Titanic arrives in New York, we'll have a big party . . .

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I'm joking of course. Just saying that the Democrats will cry and scream like little girls when this is used against them.

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I have little faith that the Republicans will not come up with a new compromise that appears to benefit them, but in fact damages all of us in the process.

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The DC denizens in both parties consider the Tea Party and Conservative voters the real "low info" voters. That is why absolutely stupid deals like this are constantly struck and then sold to us as some sort of great thing.