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For better or worse, federal judges in the United States today are asked to resolve some of the nation's most important and contentious public policy issues.

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Is American democracy being derailed by the United States Senate filibuster Is the filibuster an important right that improves the political process or an increasingly partisan tool that delays legislation and thwarts the will of the majority Are century-old procedures in the Senate hampering the institution from fulfilling its role on the eve of the 21st century

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Gridlock is not a modern legislative condition. Although the term is said to have entered the American political lexicon after the 1980 elections, Alexander Hamilton complained about it more than two hundred years ago.