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Watson Coleman: If the Senate rules, exploited by an anticonstitutional minority, are allowed to trump the Constitution's test and two…

On the recordNovember 12, 2003
If the Senate rules, exploited by an anticonstitutional minority, are allowed to trump the Constitution's test and two centuries of practice, the Senate's power to consent to judicial nominations will have become a Senate right to require a 60-vote supermajority for confirmations by thus nullifying the President's power to shape the judiciary, the Democratic Party will yield a Presidential power without having won a Presidential election.
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Watson Coleman
New Jersey

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Discussing the implications of changing the constitutional standard for judicial nominations.

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