That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which begins:
Perhaps the most peculiar Senate action on a judicial nomination by Bill Clinton occurred on September 21, 1999. For only the second time in the Senate’s history, a cloture vote on a lower-court judicial nomination failed to get the votes needed to move to a final vote on confirmation. What is especially odd is that it was Senate Democrats who blocked cloture on Clinton’s nominee and thus prevented the Senate from voting to confirm the nomination.
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