"Memorandum of Understanding" A Senate Compromise on Judicial Filibusters

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cloture.

Judges.

Nominations for office.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] 2005

Summary:

Provides overview of the historical tensions between Democrats and Republicans in the Senate regarding judicial nominees to the Supreme Court. Summarizes principal features of the "memorandum of understanding," a bipartisan agreement stating that the seven Republican senators who signed the memorandum would not vote for the "nuclear" or "constitutional" option to end judicial filibusters by a majority rather than a supermajority vote of the Senate; and the seven Democrats who signed would not filibuster judicial nominees except under "extraordinary circumstances"

Notes:

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Other Format:

Microfiche version Library of Congress Congressional Research Service "Memorandum of Understanding"

Publisher Number:

CRS-2005-GVF-0124

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