Original sentence: Although a filibuster had been used in 1968 to prevent the elevation of Associate Justice Abe Fortas to the position of Chief Justice of the United States, Estrada's filibuster was the first ever to be used against a Circuit Court of Appeals nominee.Unable to block Estrada's nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee after the Republican Party took control of the Senate in 2003, Senate Democrats used a filibuster to block his nomination
Edited sentence: Concerned over his lack of judicial experience and the absence of any records of his legal writting, Democrats in the Senate used a filibuster to block his nomination.This first filibuster of a Circuit Court of Appeals nominee under President Bush revisited a contentious Senate debate over prior Circuit Court filibusters in the Clinton Administration and initiated a debate over the "nuclear option" to limit Senate Filibusters