Campus filibuster: No sign of cloture

NJ.com The Times ^ | 05/04/05 | ADAM GOTTESFELD

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PRINCETON BOROUGH - The mock filibuster being staged at Princeton University grew rowdier in its eighth day yesterday, as about 20 members of the College Republicans led a counter-protest in support of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's proposal to eliminate judicial filibustering.

Waving Bush/Cheney '04 signs and posters with slogans like "Yay or Nay without delay," they positioned themselves directly in front of cameras recording the anti-Frist demonstration for last night's episode of "Hardball with Chris Matthews."

"This little exercise has gone on for a while now and today we are here to support Sen. Frist and show people around the country that there are Princetonians in the mainstream and not all are outside of it," said Dylan Hogerty, president of the College Republicans.

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"I am concerned about the prospect of losing an important part of our federal system of checks and balances," Corzine wrote. "A strong and independent federal judiciary is critical to our democracy, and we should not change the rules midstream to undermine our Constitution."

They must have slipped something into the Constitution about the filibuster since I last read it. Guess I've been wrong about this issue for a while now. Jonnie says so.

[bkepley]

Must have come as a shock to Mathews that there are Republican students.

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Must have come as a shock to Mathews that there are Republican students.

LOL, that was my thought too. Twenty, even!

Though Princeton does have the reputation of being the most conservative of the Ivies, that's not saying much. They do have an excellent conservative professor, Robert George.

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Funny thing about that check and balance phrase that I hear
the left talk so much about. With the lower courts packed
with activist liberals I kind of think it is time to balance
that out just a tad bit.