‘The Social Whatever’: Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook Sequel Has Little Bite
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Quite a panic seems to have erupted at the prospect that the Senate might actually end the ability of the Democrats to filibuster even highly qualified nominees for the federal courts. No sooner had the majority leader in the Senate, William Frist, sent plans to join a broadcast to engage what its backer, the Family Research Council, calls an effort “to engage values voters in the all-important issue of reining in our out-of-control courts” than the Washington Post issued an editorial calling the whole thing “beyond the pale” because conservatives are characterizing the Democrats’ effort as a “filibuster of people of faith.”
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By MATTHEW RICE
|Quite a panic seems to have erupted at the prospect that the Senate might actually end the ability of the Democrats to filibuster even highly qualified nominees for the federal courts. No sooner had the majority leader in the Senate, William Frist, sent plans to join a broadcast to engage what its backer, the Family Research Council, calls an effort “to engage values voters in the all-important issue of reining in our out-of-control courts” than the Washington Post issued an editorial calling the whole thing “beyond the pale” because conservatives are characterizing the Democrats’ effort as a “filibuster of people of faith.”
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