This site is not a wholly-owned or rented subsidiary of AEI (heaven forbid), but Mr. Orenstein has written yet another blistering rebuttal of the Senate Republicans’ and their allies’ claims about the filibuster. Now let us take up the assertion that we have had a two-century-plus tradition of giving presidents up-or-down votes on their judicial …

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The only honest man I know of at the American Enterprise Institute is Norman Orenstein, and on May 4 he wrote this column for his employer. It’s hard to believe that he’d be allowed to publish something which so clearly refutes the conventional wisdom his colleagues keep pushing about the nuclear option, but maybe he …

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