Failing that, Republican senators are contemplating a unilateral prohibition of filibusters against presidential nominations, forcing votes on the two appeals court nominees, Miguel Estrada and Patricia Owen, who are being blocked by Democrats.
Eventually, a coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats filibustered the nomination, forcing Johnson, by then a lame duck, to withdraw his friend's name.
McNutt was challenging Roosevelt for the Presidential nomination, forcing Minton to choose between the administration and his allies in the state party.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, currently running for the Republican presidential nomination, was forced to abandon the New Hampshire campaign trail to attend to the blizzard.
What it doesn't seem likely to do is garner Smith any further prestige nominations, or force him to stretch beyond his thespian comfort zone.
Also, post cloture time for non appellate judges will be cut from 30 hours to 2. That's huge because now Reid can stack nominations, which forces the Repubs' hands".
His own party has moved so far to the right that the path to the nomination forces Republican candidates to adopt positions that cannot be sold in the general election.
But he might be able to stop Mr. Romney from claiming the nomination and force the party to a brokered convention in August.
As the Convention opened, Trump's allies were busy congratulating themselves on having quashed a late effort to deny him the nomination by forcing an open vote on the Convention rules.
Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he will place a hold on the nomination of the president's director of central intelligence, John O. Brennan, and Mr. McCain and Mr. Graham also said they intended to use Mr. Brennan's nomination to force the administration to answer questions about the September attack in Benghazi, Libya.
