https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/11/supreme-court-roundup-16/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:45:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2016/11/supreme-court-roundup-16/comment-page-1/#comment-343278 Wed, 30 Nov 2016 05:45:18 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=61514#comment-343278 Sen Merkley’s threat to filibuster any conservative replacement for Scalia has (as mentioned in the article) been rendered philosophically hollow by the Democratic repeal of the filibuster for district court and agency appointments. The Democrats might find more support, however, if while accepting Trump’s right to replace a conservative with a conservative, they filibuster attempts to replace a USSC progressive with a conservative.

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