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Article: West Virginia senator Robert Byrd, upset about Republican plans to end the filibustering of judges, called the move Hitlerian.(The Week)(Brief Article)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- March 28, 2005
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* West Virginia senator Robert Byrd, upset about Republican plans to end the filibustering of judges, called the move Hitlerian. To force up-or-down votes on judges would be to eviscerate the rule of law, just as Nazi Germany did. The resulting (and justified) uproar over the noxious Hitler comment managed to obscure the absurdity of everything else the senator said. Byrd's argument is that ending filibusters would "mute dissent and gag opposition voices" and "rob a senator of the right to speak out against an overreaching executive branch or a ...