14 GOP Senators Slam Senate GOP's ‘Unconstitutional' Filibuster*

Yesterday, Senate Republicans voted nearly unanimously to block Caitlan Halligan's nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Only Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) broke party lines to join the 54-45 vote to allow Halligan to move forward — leaving Halligan six votes short of what she needed to break the GOP filibuster.

The Senate GOP's decision to filibuster Halligan earned wide rebukes from Senate Republicans*, many of whom slammed this decision to filibuster a judicial nominee as unconstitutional:

[list] [*]Lamar Alexander (R-TN): “I would never filibuster any President's judicial nominee, period. I might vote against them, but I will always see they came to a vote.â€