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Former Senators Fred Thompson, Paul Laxalt, Slade Gorton, Zell Miller, and James Buckley have written the following to the Senate leadership:

The constitutional option is not the ideal way of guaranteeing that the president's judicial nominees receive the votes they deserve. However, barring the minority's willingness to restore 214 years of precedent and tradition, it is a far better option than allowing the minority to hijack the chamber and deny the Senate the opportunity to fulfill its constitutional obligations.

Another group of former Senators said basically the same thing in a press conference televised recently on C-Span, including Dan Coates, Peter Fitzgerald, Rod Grams, and Tim Hutchinson. That press conference can be accessed via C-Span, which also has tons of other resources on this issue.