'Election-law superblogger Rick Hasen has a very interesting post on the question whether the next nominee for the Supreme Court -- the replacement for Justice O'Connor -- will provoke a "nuclear showdown". By "nuclear showdown", Rick means a filibuster by Senate Democrats that provokes the so-called "nuclear option", ie the use of a parliamentary maneuver to amend the Senate Rules and amend the cloture rules for judicial nominations.'
Originally by Legal Theory Blog, 12:21 PM