Message to Senate GOP: Don't surrender by restoring judicial filibuster

First, the GOP senators have to understand that this is not simply an internal matter, a question of the “club’s” agreed-upon rules. It is a issue of incredible and obvious importance to all Americans, not just 100 senators, and understood to be such by millions of grassroots voters, and thousands of contributors.

Those activists and those donors know a few things.

They know that the Democrats screwed George W. Bush’s nominees from the time of his election throughout his tenure. The various games played by Vermont’s Patrick Leahy and others are remembered in detail, as are the names of the very qualified nominees like Miguel Estrada who were victims of committee blockades and floor filibusters.