Can somebody out there update me, please. Last I heard, we got one of the female judges through. Is that all? And more importantly -- are all the others still supposed to get up or down votes as the optimists predicted, or are they not going to, as the pessimists predicted. Thank you kindly.
Priscilla Owen was confirmed on an up/down vote. Supposedly, the agreement was that Janice Brown and William Pryor will also get up/down votes, with action planned for next week.
As for all the rest, no one knows what will happen with any or all of them...yet.
The agreement left that hanging by using some weasel words that both Dems and Pubs could claim as a good deal for their side. Frist, Lindsey Graham and other Pub Senators claim the Constitutional option is still open if the Dems filibuster any of the next nominees, whereas Ted Kennedy, other Dem Senators and radicals in the outside pressure groups are going around bragging that the agreement "preserved the filibuster" and how great that is for them.