Once the Constitutional option is exercised don't be surprised to see Democrats assassinating some of "W"'s nominees for the courts.
Only if the Republicans have the backbone to actually use it. Otherwise it will sit and collect dust.
-Regards, T.
What are you talking about?
That's what they have been doing fo 5 years?
I am more thsan just a bit tired of the lunatic Far Right's whining about fairness' requiring an up-or-down, Senate-floor vote on judicial nominees. All that fairness requires is playing by the existing rules. The existing rules allow use of a fillibuster on judicial nominations.
Neither your highly vaunted "fairness" nor the United States Constitution requires an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor on these nominees.
Additionally, conservatives are the last people with a right to be whining about fairness on judicial nominees as a result of their using the then-existing rules to deny up-or-down, Senate-floor votes for dozens of Clinton Administration judicial nominees then changing the rules they had used once a Republican had been elected pResident.
Finally, let me point out that exercising the Nuclear Option to change the senate rules will require an "unfair" breaking of the Senate rules on rules changes.