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Judicial Filibusters and Partisan Hypocrisy

Regardless of how it turns out, the confirmation battle over the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor has already highlighted one interesting phenomenon: Democrats and Republicans are swapping arguments. For example, as recently as 2002, Sen. Schumer was advocating judicial filibusters. In fact, he invented the "Schumer Rule" -- which The Hill defines as, "a tactic used by Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) when he opposed judicial nominees because of legal or political ideology." (You might remember all the clamoring from Republicans that judges deserve a fair up or down vote -- well, that was in ...

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