[justshe]

*****I do not think filibusters of appointments are that serious a matter, since the Constitution provides the obvious remedy of recess appointments.*****

And the argument that recess appointments COULD term-limit the appointee...effectively changing a life-time appointment (dependent upon Presidential discretion) as decreed by Article 3 of the Constitution...?

Still sounds like a Constitutional amendment by fiat, no?

[aristeides]

Still sounds like a Constitutional amendment by fiat, no?

Not to me. What the Constitution ordains is that the appointment be a lifetime one where the president and the Senate agree on a candidate.