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The Republicans' Filibuster Lie
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They seem to have forgotten the Fortas case.

By David Greenberg
David Greenberg, a history professor at Rutgers University, researched the politics of court appointments as a visiting scholar at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

May 3 2005

To justify banning Senate filibusters in judicial nomination debates, Republicans are claiming support from history. Until now, say Republicans such as Sen. John Kyl and former Sen. Bob Dole, no one has used filibusters to block nominees to the federal courts. Because Democrats have broken an unwritten rule, their logic goes, Republicans are forced to change written ones.

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