Interest groups are intensifying the ad in states that are crucial to the eventual winner of the looming Senate debate on the of the filibuster against judicial nominees.
The fight over federal judicial nominees shifts this week from Capitol Hill to America's living rooms, with interest groups escalating an ad war in an effort to swing senators their way.
Progress for America, a conservative advocacy group, launched an ad Monday in the states of five Republican and five Democratic senators considered pivotal to whether the Senate changed its rules to prevent filibusters over some of President Bush's conservative nominees to the federal bench.
People for the American Way, a liberal group, is responding with an ad scheduled to begin running today in the same states. It portrays the filibuster — a parliamentary tactic in which senators talk as long as they want to prevent a vote — as an effective check against one party having too much power.
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
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