Monday, December 12, 2011

A Republican Doubles-Down on Nullification - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic

James Fallows is sounding the alarm on the routinization of the filibuster - an anti-majoritarian tactic permitted by Senate rules - and embraced with historically unprecedented frequency by the Mitch McConnell-led Republican Senate minority; and the just-say-no approach of the Republican majority in the House. Fallows calls it nullification: the adoption of a practice of refusal to cooperate: e.g. the rejection of Richard Cordray as director of the Conumer Financial Protection Bureau. - GWC
A Republican Doubles-Down on Nullification - James Fallows - Politics - The Atlantic:

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