"Rather than openly challenge President Clinton's nominees on the floor, Republicans decided to deny them Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Between 1996 and 2000, 20 of Bill Clinton's appeals-court nominees were denied hearings, including Elena Kagan, now dean of the Harvard Law School, and many other women and minorities. In 1999, Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch refused to hold hearings for almost six months on any of 16 circuit-court and 31 district-court nominations Clinton had sent up. Three appeals-court nominees who did manage to obtain a hearing in Clinton's second term were denied a committee vote, including Allen R. Snyder, a distinguished Washington lawyer, Clinton White House aide, and former Rehnquist law clerk, who drew lavish praise at his hearing -- but never got a committee vote. Some 45 district-court nominees were also denied hearings, and two more were afforded hearings but not a committee vote.
Even votes that did occur were often delayed for months and even years. In late 1999, New Hampshire Republican Bob Smith blocked a vote on 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Richard Paez for months by putting an anonymous hold on the nomination. When Majority Leader Trent Lott could no longer preserve the hold, Smith and 13 other Republicans tried to mount a filibuster against the vote, but cloture was voted and Paez easily confirmed. It had been over four years since his nomination."
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<---Straight face There was one failed attempt to block a Clinton nominee (Richard Paez). Frist’s attempt the block this failed because the rest of the GOP controlled Congress said “no he will have an up or down vote” and he was approved. There was a rule that if a single Senator dissented from a nomination the nomination was considered dead. That rule has since been repealed. The dems hold the record for filibusters. And here are the Judicial nominations (during the Bush admin): Henry Saad, Richard Griffin, David McKeaque, Charles Pickering, Bill Pryor, Pricilla Owen, Miguel Estrada, William Myers, Caroline Kuhl and Janice Rogers Brown. They also filibustered the Warrantless Surveillance Act and the Death Tax Compromise Bill.
