The Top 10 Filibuster Falsehoods
Media Matters For America

With the Senate debate on two of President Bush’s most controversial judicial nominees, the heated rhetoric over the so-called “nuclear option” to ban Senate filibusters on judicial nominations has reached boiling point. The rules of the Senate are being challenged, and filibuster opponents have pulled all rhetorical stops, advancing numerous falsehoods and distortions. As Media Matters for America documents here, the media have too often perpetuated that misinformation by unskeptically, and sometimes even deliberately, repeating it.

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