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Indeed, throughout the entire history of the U.S. Senate, neither the minority-party members in that chamber nor senators of the party that did not occupy the White House had ever before engaged in such a coordinated, protracted filibustering campaign to frequently deny up-or-down votes for one judicial nominee after another. In fact, beyond the 10 appellate-court nominees who were actively filibustered in 2003 and 2004, it should further be noted that Democrats almost certainly would have filibustered additional circuit-court nominees—including Terrence Boyle, Brett Kavanaugh and Thomas Griffith—had they moved from the Judiciary Committee to the floor last year.
To underline the importance of this:
Today begins the fifth year of waiting for confirmation for some of President Bush’s nominees to the federal courts of appeals.
