No way. Nobody has ever called those a filibuster and there has never been a true filibuster against a circuit court of appeals nominee until this one, and your side has announced that this is a filibuster. No one has ever agreed that those others were filibusters. There were cloture votes, no question about it. But no circuit nominee has ever been defeated by denying cloture, none; zero; nada.
Discussing the concept of filibusters in relation to circuit court of appeals nominees.
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