Free Republic: Frist Backs Rule Change on Judges
- Describes various strategies to overcome filibusters of judicial nominees in the U.S. Senate, such as a rule change or extending the legislative day.
- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1175573/posts

Wikipedia: Filibuster
- Includes an overview and history.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster

When a Majority Is Denied Its Right to Consent
- Testimony and statements from witnesses at a hearing in May 2003.
- http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=744

Associated Press: Bush Sends Senate 20 Judicial Nominees
- The president renominates people who were not confirmed during his first term. Twelve of the nominees are for appeals courts, and seven of those twelve had been filibustered.
- http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/02/14/national/w142608S72.DTL

The American Thinker: Judicial Nominee filibusters and Senate Rules
- Contends that filibusters of nominees violate US Senate Rule 31.
- http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4264

Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy: The Constitutional Option
- Martin Gold and Dimple Gupta describe ways for a simple majority of Senators to change the text or interpretation of Senate rules, without being stopped by a filibuster.
- http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Gold_Gupta_JLPP_article.pdf

CNS News: Owen Re-nomination Passes Senate Judiciary Committee
- Article describes attempts to conduct a filibuster within the US Senate Judiciary Committee.
- http://www.conservativenews.org/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200303%5CNAT20030328a.html

Judicial Nominations, Filibusters, and the Constitution
- May 6, 2003 U.S. Senate hearing report.
- http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/108hrg/90460.pdf

MSNBC: Shock and Awe In the Senate
- George Will recommends that Senate Republicans not amend the Senate's filibuster rules, but he also urges President Bush to renominate previously filibustered judicial nominees.
- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6596229/site/newsweek/

National Review: Crisis Mode
- Senator Orrin G. Hatch presents a "fair and constitutional option to beat the filibuster game."
- http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/hatch200501120729.asp

Filibuster Derails Supreme Court Appointment
- Article from the United States Senate.
- http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Filibuster_Derails_Supreme_Court_Appointment.htm

Senate Resolution 138 of the 108th Congress
- The text of an amendment to U.S. Senate Rule 22 regarding filibusters of judicial nominees.
- http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.RES.138:

Senator Specter Comments on the Nomination of Michael Chertoff
- Explains his position regarding filibusters of judicial nominees.
- http://specter.senate.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=SpecterSpeaks.Detail&SpecterSpeak_id=55&Month=6&Year=2003

CBN News: Stemming the Tide of Judicial Activism
- Interview with C. Boyden Gray, former White House counsel to George H.W. Bush.
- http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/041112a.asp

FindLaw's Writ: Can the Senate Bind Itself So that Only a Supermajority Can Change Its Rules?
- Part II of article by Professor Vikram Amar discussing a so-called nuclear option to end filibusters of judicial nominees in the U.S. Senate.
- http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/20030627.html

The Supreme Court and the Constitution
- This essay includes a discussion of, essentially, allowing a minority of three supreme court justices to filibuster any attempt by the other justices to strike down a statute.
- http://newdeal.feri.org/court/cushman.htm

Jefferson on Politics & Government: Majority Rule
- Jefferson's political philosophy in his own words. Contains the founding principles of American self-government.
- http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff0500.htm

The Case Against the Senate Filibuster
- Former Attorney General Elliot Richardson argued that filibusters of legislation should be eliminated.
- http://fairvote.org/reports/1995/chp6/richardson.html

Briefing on Filibuster and Cloture
- Background information from the U.S. Senate Historian.
- http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Filibuster_Cloture.htm

WBUR.org : The Filibuster Battle
- Recording from a radio show debating the fairness of using a filibuster.
- http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2003/06/20030611_a_main.asp

President Calls for Action on Judicial Nominations
- Text of a letter from the President to Senator Frist and Senator Daschle.
- http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030311-1.html

Floyd Riddick on Cloture and Filibusters
- Interview with a former Senate Parliamentarian, including discussion of whether the Senate is a "continuing body."
- http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Riddick_interview_4.pdf

FindLaw's Writ: With a Potential Supreme Court Nomination At Stake, Questions of The Filibuster's Constitutionality Linger
- Part I of article by Professor Vikram Amar analyzing the ability of the U.S. Senate to change its filibuster rules by a simple majority vote, instead of by the 2/3 vote specified in Senate Rule 22.
- http://writ.news.findlaw.com/amar/20030613.html

Hearing on Senate Rule XXII
- A record of the statements made by witnesses at a hearing in June 2003.
- http://rules.senate.gov/hearings/2003/060503_hearing.htm