60 Hours, 29 minutes and Counting of Continuos Filibustering

As I’m sure you’ve heard, Republicans have threaten to change long established Senate rules on debate, a move that Republicans initially called their “Nuclear Option.” If Republican’s implement the nuclear option it would end the Democrats’ ability to defend the independence of the courts, since Republicans would be able to put in the bench any ideologically driven judges for lifetime appointments. Senator Bill Frist is spearheading the Republican’s efforts to ram through their nuclear option. In response, an idealistic band of students at Senator Frist’s alma matter, Princeton, have mounted a continuous filibuster in front of a building that the Senator’s family donated to the university.

You can see the student’s ongoing filibuster here:
http://www.princeton.edu/~petehill/filibuster.html

The students, and guests, including a couple of physics professors, have been at it for 60 hours, 29 minutes and going… they deserve a big applause.

I found out about the students thanks to Talking Points Memo.