[Don@VB]

Open Question...Is there any precedent for filibustering judicial appointments that have cleared committie? I thought that judicial appointments were always accorded an up or down floor vote....at least until recently. Even Robert Bork (the Lefties Boogie Man) was allowed a floor vote. If the Dem's have departed from tradition, the Nuclear Option is even more appropriate.

[frankiep]

Why are we even calling this the "Nuclear" Option when there is absolutely nothing unlawful or destructive about it. The MSM is calling it nuclear because it makes it sound sinister and evil, we don't have to do the same thing.

[Spunky]

"If the Dem's have departed from tradition, the Nuclear Option is even more appropriate."

The Nuclear option was when the Democrates changed the rules. We would be going back to the way the rules were originally written.

[Redbob]

"Open Question...Is there any precedent for filibustering judicial appointments that have cleared committie?"

Yes, I think so.

There was an old hack that LBJ wanted to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - Abe Fortas.
Mr. Fortas was a crook - why else would he be a friend of LBJ's? - and the GOP fillibustered him. When it became known that Fortas had lied to the Senate Judiciary committee, and that he'd accepted bribes from a known convict, a vote to end the fillibuster failed, and Fortas finally withdrew his nomination.

Subsequently, he resigned from the SCOTUS, by which time he was so notorious he was unable to even rejoin the law firm he had founded!