CNN host and syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak compared an offer by Senate Democrats to avert a ban on the use of judicial filibusters with "going to a concentration camp and picking out which people go to the death chamber." Novak was referring to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid 's(D-NV) proposal on May 12 by to confirm some, but not all, of President Bush's blocked judicial nominees in return for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) agreeing not to resort to the "nuclear option" to ban judicial filibusters.
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