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By AndrewHyman Posted in Senate Rules — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

Terry Eastland, speaking for the editors of the Weekly Standard has a piece titled "If You Were a Democrat." Eastland writes as follows:

"[T]he parliamentary procedures [that Senate Republicans are] ... contemplating using to exempt judicial nominations from the filibuster, a Senate rule that the Senate may change as it wishes, were once used by Byrd himself when he was majority leader to establish Senate precedents designed to stop filibusters and other delaying tactics...."