An overwhelming majority of Americans — 82 percent — think qualified candidates for the nation's highest courts deserve an up-or-down vote in the Senate, while a similar majority wants partisan politics removed from the judicial confirmation process.
"This sort of shoots what Harry Reid, Robert Byrd and others are saying about the right to filibuster right out of the water, huh?" says Washington publicist Mark Coyle, referring to recent remarks by the Democratic senators from Nevada and West Virginia respectively.
Has anyone asked Senator Tim Johnson if he favors judicial filibusters?
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