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Which nomination was filibustered?When they filibustered Bush's appointments, they never came up for vote. Votes that they had the numbers to win, confirmed. Those were the rules at the time, so yeah, the process worked.The process worked. Bush offered a candidate that was rejected and he was allowed to pick another.Translation: Your argument is inconvenient. I'm going to ignore it.Wow. You honestly believe that appointment games started with Garland not getting hearings?
Rewind a couple administrations, George W. Bush was the first president to have one of his judicial nominations blocked by filibuster. I'm pretty well certain that wasn't where the arms race started, either. I'm equally certain that you couldn't tell me where it did, and yet here you are telling me with all confidence that republicans started it. Lol.
I'm sorry, when did this happen?
There wasn't a filibuster for Alito. That motion was defeated 72-25. What DID happen was before Bush appointed Alito, he tried to appoint a sensible moderate in Harriet Meyers, and the Flying Monkey Right lost their fucking minds...George W. Bush judicial appointment controversies - Wikipedia
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Go read up on W's nominees in general. The Dems did some GAMING during his presidency. Garland wasn't shit compared to what he had to put up with, and that's even when the Republicans had the numbers in the senate.
Bush was allowed to fill a vacancy. Obama was not.
Pack the Courts
Republicans refused to vote up or down on Garland and Obama was not allowed to fill the seat
Just like those were the rules with Garland, and the process worked there, too.
I‘ll give it a Google