{"id":681,"date":"2006-01-26T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T21:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=681"},"modified":"2006-01-26T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T21:07:44","slug":"on-senator-kerrys-filibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=681","title":{"rendered":"On Senator Kerry&#039;s Filibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/01\/26\/alito\/index.html\">Massachusetts Senator Kerry today called for a Senate filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how the votes will break down, if the Democrats will have enough votes to hold off a cloture vote.  If the cloture vote to end debate fails, would the Republicans then unleash the nuclear option, rewriting the Senate&#8217;s rules on debate?<\/p>\n<p>A line has been drawn in the sand.  But what does it mean?  What does it <i>mean<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts Senator Kerry today called for a Senate filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito. I don&#8217;t know how the votes will break down, if the Democrats will have enough votes to hold off a cloture vote. If the cloture vote to end debate fails, would the Republicans then unleash the nuclear option, rewriting<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=681\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Senator Kerry&#039;s Filibuster&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[273,904,4108,1043,595],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-george-bush","tag-john-kerry","tag-politics","tag-samuel-alito","tag-supreme-court","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}