Republicans hope to end judicial filibusters by changing Senate rules to prevent them - a move so explosive it has been dubbed "the nuclear option."

"DeWine says dad was wrong about judicial filibusters."

Conservatives' insistence that judicial filibusters are uniquely reprehensible has it backward.

To the Editor: The judicial filibuster lives, but at what cost?

But it wasn't until the 1990's that this problem of judicial filibusters exploded.

Perhaps he believes as a matter of principle the judicial filibuster must be destroyed.

Byrd said eliminating the judicial filibuster was the equivalent of Hitler's abuse of power.

When I was a leader in the Senate, a judicial filibuster was not part of my procedural playbook.

I believe the social conservatives' attempt to end the judicial filibuster is one of these cases.

Asked about the plan to end the Democrats judicial filibusters, 51 percent of respondents oppose the idea and 37 percent support it.