It is good that the law did not get revised. We may have a need to filibuster judicial nominees in the future.
IIRC: The Constitutional Option is only valid in the Congress in which it is invoked.
Nope, won't work.
1) The Senate Republicans are spineless, If they threaten to filibuster Ted Kennedy might not invite them on his yacht, so they will likely cave and it's doubtful they will ever go through with it.
2) When it comes to politics, give the devils their due, unlike the Republicans the Democrats are not spineless and they will use the nuclear option day number 1
"We" will not filibuster any judge or justice nomination indefinitely. No matter who it is. Period. We just don't do that sort of thing. It's the Democrats and their precarious electoral position that has lead them to abusing the filibuster in this way.
Because we've filibustered nominees in past? Because Democrats would never consider nuking the filibuster themselves, and follow through?
1) Republicans will never filibuster.
2) Democrats would never allow a filibuster to stand.
That thinking is no different then those that say, yeah, I trust THIS President with the Patriot Act but I wouldn't trust a Clinton. Well, fine, but the Clinton's won't need the Patriot Act. They'll go further then the Patriot Act and face no consequence. It's a false premise.
Bottomline- 14 Senators have staged a coup that makes their votes more important than those of the other 86. One vote, one Senator, that is what it is supposed to be. Not an unelected fourteen cabal making the other 86 mostly irrelevant.
As a result of that cabal the president felt pressured to select Miers, rather then someone like Alito initially. That set the stage for an inter-party battle we could have avoided otherwise. It has also allowed other judges to remain filibustered that were not as distinctive as pryor, brown and Owens. SADD had his reputation trashed by Reid on the floor, Reid never faced censure for it, and Sadd is still he;d up. Kavanaugh is being blocked, so are others. It has allowed this nonsense of will they/won't they filibuster to tie up current hearings. It keeps a possible third opening in doubt, that could be even uglier then these hearings that reduced Alito's wife to tears.
It was a horrendous deal that was the result of certain Senators realizing we, the American people, were fed up with obstruction but out of pique with our pressure not wanting to give us complete victory. So they settled in to construct a minority holding more power then the rest, the high profile names go through, the rest in limbo. This is why DeWine's son came in fouth in his election bid, why DeWine's seat is in jeopardy, why Chafee has a primary challenger, and Lindsey has a potential challenger that has shown interest in '08.