That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, which begins:

The unprecedented campaign of partisan filibusters that Chuck Schumer and his fellow Senate Democrats launched in 2003 against George W. Bush’s appellate nominees ended up being a colossal failure. If Democrats had been more sparing in their use of the filibuster, Republicans would not have been able to muster a credible effort to abolish it. There would never have been a Gang of 14 Agreement. And Democrats would have been in a strong position to filibuster Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court in 2005.

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