For those worried about the Nuclear Option and upcoming legislation:

[Coexist]

I posted this in another thread, but realized that this concern about the filibuster is quite common.

Legislation can be amended - lifetime appointments can't.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=18390
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Furthermore, as a number of newspapers have editorialized<4> it is even more legitimate and important to preserve the filibuster for lifetime judicial appointment as it is for legislation. Proposed legislation can generally be amended and can always be repealed after enactment but a lifetime federal judge cannot be removed absent formal impeachment and trial by the Senate, a rarely invoked process. And the Senate must simply “take or leave” a nomination and cannot amend or repeal it as it can with ordinary legislation. The harder it is to undo a decision of the Senate, the greater should be the deliberation and debate that goes into the decision – not the other way around.