Briefing on Filibuster and Cloture
Background information about filibusters and cloture from the U.S. Senate Historian.
CBN News: Stemming the Tide of Judicial Activism
Republican leadership in the U.S. Senate is thinking about changing the rules on how filibusters are conducted. Interview with C. Boyden Gray, former White House counsel to George …
Clode's Political Dictionary: the Guillotine
The United States is not the first country to deal with filibusters in its national legislature. One way to cut off debate in the House of Commons is "the guillotine" which is a p…
Committee for Justice
The Committee for Justice is a non-profit corporation with a mission to defend President Bush's judicial nominees by seeking to break the Senate filibuster of judicial nominees and…
Confirm Them
Provides news and analysis of the judicial confirmation battles in the United States Senate, including weblog. Aims to give every American the opportunity to be heard in Washington…
Confirmation Watch
Latest news in Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings, and a list of judicial nominees yet to be confirmed by the US Senate, from the Center for Individual Freedom.
Encyclopedia Entry for Filibuster
Entry for "filibuster" in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
Filibuster Derails Supreme Court Appointment
LBJ nominated Abe Fortas for Chief Justice, but failed to win a majority of the full Senate. Republican Leader Dirksen called for further debate, but Fortas withdrew ostensibly to…
FindLaw's Writ: Can the Senate Bind Itself So that Only a Supermajority Can Change Its Rules?
Part II of article by Professor Vikram Amar discussing a so-called nuclear option to end filibusters of judicial nominees in the U.S. Senate.
FindLaw's Writ: With a Potential Supreme Court Nomination At Stake, Questions of The Filibuster's Constitutionality Linger
Part I of article by Professor Vikram Amar analyzing the ability of the U.S. Senate to change its filibuster rules by a simple majority vote, instead of by the 2/3 vote specified i…
Floyd Riddick on Cloture and Filibusters
Interview with former Senate Parliamentarian Floyd Riddick regarding cloture and filibusters, including discussion of whether the Senate is a "continuing body."
Judicial Selection.org
Site supportive of presidential nominations to the judiciary, and opposed to judicial filibusters. Included are numerous quotations and links to newspaper editorials.
National Public Radio Debate About Filibuster Battle from WBUR in Boston
Democrats launched a political battle against the nomination of a number of federal judges. While some say filibusters are a quintessential feature of democracy at work, others cla…
Never Go Back
Supports a Senate filibuster in the event of a pro-life, anti-choice nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Bush. Their site includes a petition to Senate leadership, a…
People For the American Way: Independent Judiciary
PFAW founder and Hollywood producer Norman Lear says that PFAW will do whatever it can, including support for judicial filibusters, to oppose what it sees as the radical right's ma…
Robert Novak: Byrd's Nuclear Option
Argument for ending filibusters of judicial nominees by employing a tactic previously used by the Senator from West Virginia, Robert Byrd.
The Supreme Court and the Constitution
This essay includes a discussion of, essentially, allowing a minority of three supreme court justices to filibuster any attempt by the other justices to strike down a statute.
U.S. Department of Justice Information About Judicial Nominations
Statistics and documents related to judicial filibusters, including letter signed by every living former solicitor general regarding the filibuster of Miguel Estrada.
Wikipedia: Filibuster
Free online encyclopedia provides background about filibusters in the U.S. Senate, in Canada and the UK.