Why The Republican Filibuster Problem Won’t Stop

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“CNN congressional correspondent Dana Bash repeated the right-wing myth that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, arguably the second most important court in the country, is currently “evenly split” and inaccurately reported that the blanket filibusters preventing up-or-down votes on President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees are “sacrosanct.”*

It’s happened again- yet another one of Obama’s nominees for DC’s Court of Appeals (an extremely key court) has been filibustered by Republicans. Why, and why won’t Democrats do anything meaningful to stop the out-of-control obstructionism? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more form Media Matters for America: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/20/cnn-buys-into-right-wing-myths-about-dc-circuit/196984

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