Sen. Rand Paul Is Still Filibustering the Brennan Confirmation
As the New York Times reports, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been speaking on the Senate floor since before noon in an effort to filibuster the nomination of John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor and nominee to lead the CIA.
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As the New York Times reports, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has been speaking on the Senate floor since before noon in an effort to filibuster the nomination of John Brennan, President Obama’s chief counterterrorism advisor and nominee to lead the CIA. Watch the filibuster live on C-SPAN here.
In the course of his speech, Paul has admitted that his filibuster is meant to raise the public profile of the targeted-killing debate and that it has no chance of ultimately succeeding in preventing Brennan from being confirmed. To his credit, he has not yet begun to read from the Joy of Cooking or the phone book, but the night is still young. And proving once again that the mainstream media sometimes really is “lamestream” (to quote Sarah Palin wildly out of context), some news outlets (and Paul’s own office) have taken to calling his action a “filiblizzard.” This is of course an execrable pun on the current “snowstorm” that’s dusting Washington, D.C. (what we up in Boston call a nice spring day). And don’t even get me started on the portmanteau monstrosity (portmanstrosity?) that is the “snowquester.” Awful, just awful.
Alan Z. Rozenshtein is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School, Research Director and Senior Editor at Lawfare, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he served as an Attorney Advisor with the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland.
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