Directory of Filibusters Resources

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Here are listed sites offering insight and information related to filibusters in the United States Senate, especially filibusters of nominations.

Resources in This Category

• Briefing on Filibuster and Cloture

  http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Filibuster_Cloture.htm
  Background information from the U.S. Senate Historian.

• Filibuster Derails Supreme Court Appointment

  http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Filibuster_Derails_Supreme_Court_Appointment.htm
  Article from the United States Senate.

• FindLaw's Writ: Can the Senate Bind Itself So that Only a Supermajority Can Change Its Rules?

  http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/20030627.html
  Part II of article by Professor Vikram Amar discussing a so-called nuclear option to end filibusters of judicial nominees in the U.S. Senate.

• FindLaw's Writ: With a Potential Supreme Court Nomination At Stake, Questions of The Filibuster's Constitutionality Linger

  http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/20030613.html
  Part I of article by Professor Vikram Amar analyzing the ability of the U.S. Senate to change its filibuster rules by a simple majority vote, instead of by the 2/3 vote specified in Senate Rule 22.

• Floyd Riddick on Cloture and Filibusters

  http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Riddick_interview_4.pdf
  Interview with a former Senate Parliamentarian, including discussion of whether the Senate is a "continuing body."

• Free Republic: Frist Backs Rule Change on Judges

  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175573/posts
  Describes various strategies to overcome filibusters of judicial nominees in the U.S. Senate, such as a rule change or extending the legislative day.

• Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: The Constitutional Option

  http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Gold_Gupta_JLPP_article.pdf
  Martin Gold and Dimple Gupta describe ways for a simple majority of Senators to change the text or interpretation of Senate rules, without being stopped by a filibuster.

• Jefferson on Politics & Government: Majority Rule

  http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0500.htm
  Jefferson's political philosophy in his own words. Contains the founding principles of American self-government.

• Judicial Nominations, Filibusters, and the Constitution

  http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/108hrg/90460.pdf
  May 6, 2003 U.S. Senate hearing report.

• Senate Resolution 138 of the 108th Congress

  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.RES.138:
  The text of an amendment to U.S. Senate Rule 22 regarding filibusters of judicial nominees.

• The American Thinker: Judicial Nominee filibusters and Senate Rules

  http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2005/02/judicial_nominee_filibusters_a.html
  Contends that filibusters of nominees violate US Senate Rule 31.

• Wikipedia: Filibuster

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster
  Includes an overview and history.

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