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Breaking the Long Deadlock - Princeton
ProspectsSep/Oct 2013 The AmericAn ProsPecT 5 Breaking the Long Deadlockby Paul StarrHow you think about many immediate issues facing the country should hinge on your expectations about the future. Consider the battle shap-ing up this fall over the confirma-tion of President Barack Obama s judicial nominees, particularly the three he has nominated to the Court of Appeals for the Circuit Patricia Millett, Cornelia Pillard, and Robert Wilkins. Con-trol of the Court is important in itself, but the bigger issue is the willingness of Senate Demo-crats to restrict use of the filibus-ter and revamp the ground rules in an institution that has often obstructed liberal Court is particularly significant for national policy because it rules on federal regula-tions affecting labor, environmen-tal protection, financial reform, and other key matters.
the United States has the most sclerotic, anti-majoritarian politi-cal institutions. The filibuster is not the only source of that insti-tutional status quo bias, but the other obstacles lie in constitution-al arrangements and are nearly impossible to alter. (Of the world’s major democracies, the United States has the constitution that
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