I've been very busy lately, so while I've had my eye on the judicial-nominee-filibuster-nuclear-option mess I have not been able to watch it as closely as I would like. The Moderate Voice has an exhaustive write-up on the recent bipartisan agreement to avoid changing Senate rules to ban the use of filibuster on judicial nominees. The Bull Moose also has some entertaining commentary on the subject.

In short, a few candidates will be gauranteed up/down votes (read: they will be confirmed), a few candidates will not get up/down votes, and senators retain the right to filibuster for "extraordinary circumstances".

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