Putting Politics Before the Constitution

Special AFJ Report -

All Republican senators signed a letter March 4 to President Obama threatening to use filibusters to block a majority, up-or-down vote on any appointments to the federal courts they find unacceptable.

This followed the threat issued just two days after last November's elections by the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, Jon Kyl of Arizona, who said majority votes would be prevented on any Obama appointee who does not share top Republicans' "view on cases related to social, law and order and business issues."

That raises the obvious question: just what is that "view" that these Republicans are defending? What sort of judges do they favor?

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