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May, 2005 Entries


May 31

    • Interesting Cornyn Questions
    • All Options Remain Open
    • AP Dissects Deal-Making

May 27

    •  The Washington Post's New Aversion to the F-Word
    • Roe: Invention, Overreach, Arbitrariness, Textual Indifference

May 26

    • thursday night
    • Vote-Count Report
    • Replacing Priscilla Owen
    • Two Get Through, Others Stalled
    • "Dead Loss for the Republicans"
    • Would Frist have had 50 Votes?
    • Far Be it From Me...
    • Greens Vs. Judges
    • A Unanimous Nominee?
    • Four More in the Queue

May 25

    • Questions for Senators Byrd and Landrieu
    • Left Annoyed by the Deal, Con't
    • The Importance of Byrd and Landrieu
    • "pretty good for conservatives."
    • Owen Confirmation: What It Means about "Extraordinary" and "Ordinary" Circumstances
    • re: Roll Call
    • Roll Call
    • 56-43, Owen Confirmed
    • The Washington Post vs. Pryor
    • Putting Judicial Nominees in Perspective, Part IV
    • Interesting Take--and What About Griffith?
    • No Surrender
    • Post Endorses Owen
    • In Case You Haven't Checked In
    • Sky Falling at Noon
    • The Real Leader of the Senate
    • RE: Roll Call
    • Roll Call
    • Apologies to Brother Franck

May 24

    • Politics vs. Law
    • By the way, Andy,
    •  Re: Response to . . . Me
    • Stalwart principles and Sharp Analysis
    • Re: Response to Franck
    • Response to Franck
    • Victory?
    • The Hard Spin
    • L. Graham From Last Night
    • L. Graham
    • No Deference
    • More Complaints
    • CBC & The Deal
    • Re: The Filibuster
    • SCOTUS Love Affair with International Law, Cont'd
    • The Filibuster
    • The Filibuster as a Tool
    • RE: Bainbridge
    • Cloture vote
    • John Kerry vs. Brown & Meyer
    • On Professor Bainbridge
    • re: Dirty Deal
    • Dirty Deal?
    • Feeding the Monkey(s)
    • Re: "We Cannot Allow Filibusters to Come Back"
    • Reax Round-Up
    • A Reader Says
    • What Am I Missing?
    • A Couple Clarifications/Rejoinders
    • Bainbridge Defends Deal
    •  Is "extraordinary circumstances" a Fraud?
    • Poor Drafting
    • "We Cannot Allow Filibusters to Come Back"
    • More Reid
    • Reid
    • Owen
    • Morning Business
    • "No Victory"
    • Dealing with the Deal
    • That Makes Seven
    • Consultation
    • Letter or Spirit?
    • Why Pre-Nomination Consultation Is Worse Than Worthless
    • Testing "extraordinary circumstances"
    • "Victory"
    • REID SPIN
    • The Levin Read
    • About a Deal

May 23

    • "this is the submission of the minority to the will of the majority"
    • Kavanaugh & Haynes
    • Bashman on deal
    • MEMORANDUM OF "UNDERSTANDING"?
    • Rumors
    • Initial Reactions
    • I Wonder
    • Cornyn on the Deal
    • Taken to the Cleaners
    • Daily Kos Read
    • The Drama's Not Over, for Sure
    • Saad
    • About the Deal
    • RE: Saad
    • Deal: Bottom Line
    • Lindsey Graham & "Nuclear Option"
    • "AN ASYMMETRIC DEAL"
    • "In light of the spirit and continuing commitments made in this agreement, we commit to oppose the rules changes in the 109th Congress"
    • "It's a shame"
    • THE DEAL
    • Reid Just Promised in His Press Conference
    • At Reid Presser Now
    • "Nominees should only be filibustered under extraordinary circumstances."
    • "Nominees should only be filibustered under extraordinary circumstances."
    • THE DEAL--TEXT
    • Winners & Losers
    • Reax, based only on Press Conference
    • Filbustering
    • Agreeing (this and the following posts are based on the presser)
    • Totally Overly Dramatic
    • Republicans Who Dealed
    • A Compromise Is Happening
    • Wassup with Warner
    • Ruining Lunch Plans the Country Over
    • Is that Out of the Mainstream?
    • Looong Night Ahead
    • Kmiec v. Tribe II
    • Re: Brown and Originalism
    • Eartjhustice and Justice Owen
    • Did Dems Go Too Far?
    • Abortion & the First Scotus Opening
    • Filibuster Reform and Presidential Politics
    • Is Anyone Out Listening?
    • A Postscript on Brown and Originalism
    • "Unequivocal Support"
    • Gonzales & Owen
    • Not Activist Enough

May 22

    • Democrats Still Hiding From Vote on Mainstream Nominees
    • Short Memories
    • And This Tells Us What, Exactly?
    • A Helpful Reminder from the New York Times

May 21

    • Hardly

May 20

    • Frist's Office on the Schedule
    • Lincoln and Majorities
    • Breaking News: Lindsey Graham Going Wobbly?
    • The Senate Debate
    • Putting Judicial Nominees in Perspective, Part III
    • Deal Sessions & the Chairman
    • The "Frist Operation" is the "Byrd Option"
    • Boxer-Feinstein v. Owen-Brown: Who's Mainstream?
    • LAT On Owen

May 19

    • Hagel
    • Pryor and the Voting Rights Act
    • Sen. Griffin's Words
    • The Senate Minority Keeps Getting Smaller
    • RE: Shutdown
    • GIVE THESE JUDGES AN UP-OR-DOWN VOTE ... DEMOCRATS DEMAND!
    • Putting Judicial Nominees in Perspective, Part II
    • Dangling Nominees Under Clinton v. Bush 41
    • Re: Playing With Actual Nukes
    • Shutdown Averted
    • Playing with Actual Nukes
    • Heat in The Corner Kitchen
    • Non-Originalists Can’t Be Trusted
    • Re: Slippery Slopes

May 18

    • RE: Nebraska
    • "Extreme" Becomes "Extraordinary"
    • RE: Owen
    • It's Been a Long Day
    • “95 Percent”
    • MoveOn
    • Owen and Gonzales
    • Deal Rumor
    • The Party of Pinocchio
    • Dem Strategy Memos
    • Slippery Slopes
    • Would Moveon Filibuster the Pope?
    • An Abuse Compounded
    • Re: The Washington Post Is Unfair and Unbalanced
    • shutdown begins?
    • democracy in the senate
    • RE: Not to be Insensitive
    • Schumer on Senate Rule Changes
    • Not to be Insensitive
    • Extraordinary Circumstances
    • Pravda & Things
    • Frist Begins
    • Re: Unfair & Unbalanced
    • The Washington Post Is Unfair and Unbalanced
    • Deal Sticking Points
    • Go Nuke
    • Trivia
    • Bad Deal
    • THE DEAL?
    • P.S. ON GONZALES & OWEN
    • GONZALES AND OWEN
    • "Nowhere Else to Go"
    • "Time to Retire the Filibuster"
    • Moderates Attempted Dealmaking
    • Filibusters & Judicial Quality
    • Janice Rogers Brown
    • Re: Wine Gone to Their Heads?
    • And So It Begins?

May 17

    • Oh the Horror!
    • Fein Reading
    • Wine Gone to Their Heads?
    • Putting Judicial Nominees in Perspective
    • This Place
    • Judges and Democracy
    • Reid Calls off Negotiations.

May 16

    • Reid Notes
    • Kmiec v. Tribe on Judicial Filibusters
    • Clinton’s Rubber Stamp
    • Sen. Roberts Is O.K.
    • “Theological activists”?
    • Hip Hop Is All About Senate Process
    • No Compromise
    • How We Got Here & Where We're Going To
    • RE: Stone on Nuke Option
    • Nominees & Religious Faith
    • NARAL to Go Negative
    • Frist Puts Up His Dukes
    • Stone on Nuke Option
    • More on Compromising
    • No Nukes

May 14

    • Sum-Up
    • Re: Revising the Senate Filibuster Rules
    • Re: Bring Back Blue Slips?
    • The Filibuster Debate
    • NRDC Goes Anti-Nuke
    • News Roundup
    • More on Starr's Views
    • Re: Does It Matter If the Judicial Filibuster Is Unconstitutional?
    • Orson Scott Card on Filibusters
    • On the Nebraska Decision
    • Whelan's Example
    • Does It Matter If the Judicial Filibuster Is Unconstitutional?
    • Andy, Et Al
    • I Join Brother Franck
    • Bring Back Blue Slips?
    • A Minor Correction
    • Confirmation And Judicial Philosophy

May 13

    • frist is ready to roll
    • I Respectfully Dissent
    • Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner!
    • Re: McCarthy on the Filibuster
    • PFAW in PA, AK and ME
    • McCarthy on the Filibuster
    • Richard Cohen
    • End the Filibuster
    • Kyl on the P.R. Battle
    • The Judicial Balance
    • Boyle: So Close, Yet So Far
    • Specter Still Seeking Deal
    • A Little Forgotten History
    • Reid's Smear
    • It Takes a Strong Man
    • Owen Dishonesty
    • Onward FMA
    • The Democratic Filibuster Fraud
    • It Will Be Reversed
    • Re: The Filibuster & Partisan Retrenchment

May 12

    • It's Just My Opinion
    • Stray Thought
    • The Filibuster and "Partisan Retrenchment"
    • Re: Getting to the Merits
    • Brown and Originalism
    • Extremist Makeover
    • For the First Time
    • Reid’s Calumny
    • Reid Continues to Backpedal
    • Ken Starr's Real Views
    • Greens Go After Owen
    • Debunking Owen Conventional Wisdom
    • Get to the merits!
    • Journalists: This is Why Americans Are Mad About the Judiciary
    • Root Causes
    • Where You Are
    • Pryor Moves

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