A July 4 front-page article in The Washington Post reported that "Democrats' hopes of blocking a staunchly conservative Supreme Court nominee on ideological grounds could be seriously undermined by the six-week-old bipartisan deal on judicial nominees," according to "key senators." Later in the article, the Post reiterated that "key members of the group" that reached the May 24 bipartisan agreement on filibusters have said that a filibuster "can be justified only on questions of personal ethics or character," not ideology. But staff writers Susan Schmidt and Charles Babington identified only one "key senator," Lindsey O. Graham (R-SC), who both signed the agreement in May and stated more recently that a Supreme Court nominee's ideology could not constitute "extraordinary circumstances" warranting a filibuster under that agreement, which seven Republican and seven Democratic senators signed.
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