Will Senate Democrats seek to filibuster the Haynes nomination? Senate Minority Leader certainly left open that possibility earlier today. Here is an excerpt from Senator Reid’s media availability after a closed policy luncheon:

QUESTION: Senator Reid, you mentioned earlier the nuclear option. Will there be a filibuster on William Haynes’ nomination? REID: Well, today, with Haynes, we got interesting news. Twenty retired generals, Democrats, Republicans and independents, wrote a letter saying that Haynes is not fit to be on the bench. And I think that says it all. We are going to do what we need to do to protect our country. We have been cooperative with the Republicans on judges. We’ve approved a lot of judges that were very, very borderline. But unless there’s some drastic change, I’m not going to override the views of 20 of our finest. QUESTION: But will there be a filibuster? REID: We’ll do whatever is necessary to protect the judiciary.