HNN Hot Topics: Filibusters

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General

• Whatever Happened to the Old-Fashioned Jimmy Stewart-Style Filibuster? by Aaron Erlich
• HNN Poll (January 2010)

Commentary

• Toby Ditz: Historians and Filibuster Reform: Follow-Up


• Joyce Appleby: The Urgency of a Senate Rule Change


• Walter F. Mondale: Resolved: Fix the Filibuster


• Petition by historians calls on Senate to revise filibuster


• David E. RePass: Harry Reid should end phantom filibusters
  
  
• Interview with Julian Zelizer on Wisconsin public Radio, Kathleen Dunn Show, May 23, 2005
• Interview with Julian Zelizer on"On Point," May 23, 2005
• It's the Threat of Filibusters that Have Shaped Judicial Fights by Tom Brune
• Limits On Filibusters Are Already Pervasive by Gail Russell Chaddock
• Excerpts: The Senate Filibuster Debate
• Letter to the Senate Rules Committee Regarding Filibusters by Robert Caro



• The Filibuster Showdown: If You Can't Beat 'Em, Nuke 'Em by Ira Chernus
• The Democrats' Filibuster Strategy Is Radical by Charles Krauthammer
• Break the Filibuster by Bill Kristol
• The Not-So-Secret History of Filibusters by George Mitchell
• Filibustering Judicial Appointments Is Unprecedented? by David Greenberg
• Repubs Blocked Judges from the Judiciary Commitee When Clinton Was President by Tim Russert
• Sen. Frist May Be Right: that No Nominee with Majority Support Has Been Denied an Up or Down Vote by Sheryl Gay Stolberg
• The Framers Vs. Senator Frist by David Kyvig
• Why Getting Rid of the Filibuster Is Still a Good Idea by Julian E. Zelizer
• Filibusters: Constitutional Option or the Nuclear Option? by Warren Richey
• Let the Dems Try to Talk a Nomination to Death! by Dick Morris
• So Now Dems Like Filibusters? by Pete du Pont
• Repubs Blocked Far More of Clinton's Judicial Nominations by Sean Wilentz
• When Was the Filibuster First Used as a Crude Cudgel? by Drex Heikes
• Bush and the End of the Senate Filibuster (Illustration) by Joshua Brown
• So Nobody Ever Filibustered a Supreme Court Nomination Before? by Charles Babington
• The GOP Ponders Using the"Nuclear Option" to Void Filibusters for Court Nominees by Margaret Talev
• Republican Myths About Judicial Filibusters by Judd Legum and Christy Harvey
• Herr Byrd Himself Has Used the Nuclear Option to Win the Approval of Judges by WSJ Editorial
• The Nuclear Options Republicans May Use to Stop Senate Filibusters of Court Nominees by Duncan Currie
• Why Did the Senate Adopt the Rule Allowing Filibusters? by Scott Shane
• Historians' Petition Against the Nomination of Charles Pickering, Sr.
• In Defense of the Filibuster by Joanne Mariner
• Robert Caro's Master of the Senate by Robert D. Novak
• What Happened to the Filibuster? by John Barnhill
• Filibuster a Court Nomination? by C. Boyden Gray