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July 01, 2005
Chillin' With Byron
Byron York over at The Corner reports on the Frist's opening moves and the emerging discussion among Rebuplicans about exactly when to convene the hearings:
Right now, top Republicans in the Senate do not believe Democrats will filibuster a Supreme Court nominee -- "They won't filibuster," one well-placed source said flatly yesterday -- but the GOP leadership does believe Democrats will do everything in their power to drag out the confirmation process. Holding hearings in August would simply get the process going sooner rather than later. In any event, Republicans believe that the aftermath of the nuclear/constitutional/Byrd option fight has left the GOP, in the words of the well-placed source, "maximally positioned" to conduct a Supreme Court fight.
Maximally positioned--and properly chilled. Heh!
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