Perspective
Dec. 2, 2013
The road to the Senate nuclear option
In 2005, when a group of senators called the Gang of 14 made a deal to preserve the filibuster for judicial nominees, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., exulted, "The republic has been saved." By David A. DeGroot
In 2005, when a group of senators called the Gang of 14 made a deal to preserve the filibuster for judicial nominees, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., exulted, "The republic has been saved." With reason, no one has concluded, as a result of the Nov. 14 demise of the filibuster engineered by the Senate's Democratic majority, that the republic is doomed. But the end of the judicial filibuster will have an impact, and probably not the imp...
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