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Majority. getting environmental rules, getting union rules, getting the president's -- so they have quite a portfolio. the other reason is it's just seen as the springboard court to the u.s. supreme court. so when you're putting someone up on this court, it's kind of a given that their next stop could well be the supreme court. >> there are three nominees in question here. is the case republicans are making that these three are just crazily outside the main stream or they're not sufficiently credentialed, what is the case against them?

Stop blocking them and give them up and down votes or changing the rules so a simple majority. so if there's anyone who thinks we can actually preserve the filibuster for the future, to block, that is a terrible nominee by the other party. >> one of those nominees is sitting on the d.c. appeals court. a quick reminder about why is -- why is the d.c. court of appeals, which is the court in question here, the president has nominated three different people to fill seats, there is a lot of vacancies, why is this the site of this most intense -- anywhere outside of the supreme court and in some res...

Up and down votes or changing the rules so a simple majority. so if there's anyone who thinks we can actually preserve the filibuster for the future, to block, that is a terrible nominee by the other party. >> one of those nominees is sitting on the d.c. appeals court. a quick reminder about why is -- why is the d.c. court of appeals, which is the court in question here, the president has nominated three different people to fill seats, there is a lot of vacancies, why is this the site of this most intense -- anywhere outside of the supreme court and in some respects even more intense than the ...

Senators said they were ready to change the rules, again, at that last moment, there was a promise made and this time there was initial delivery, there was a large slate of folks that were blocked that had up and down votes. the nominee for the federal housing agent which was blocked. it's very different now but to say that this person or that person has this problem with their background, but simply, we're not going to approve anyone that lets president obama fill the vacancies on the court, that is in a whole new realm and that's producing the change where i think we're going to finally see ...

Conversation has really been different. it's been about executive nominees serve two to four years, judges serve for a lifetime. shouldn't there still be a filibuster to block certain judges. the republicans said either you stop blocking them and give them up and down votes or changing the rules so a simple majority. so if there's anyone who thinks we can actually preserve the filibuster for the future, to block, that is a terrible nominee by the other party. >> one of those nominees is sitting on the d.c. appeals court. a quick reminder about why is -- why is the d.c. court of appeals, which ...