In 2006, Leahy Invoked ‘Thurmond Rule’ to Show His Bipartisanship

UNKNOWN FEMALE: "You should probably tell us what the Thurmond Rule was?"
LEAHY: "The Thurmond Rule, in memory of Strom Thurmond. He put this is when the Republicans were in the majority, who said that in the presidential election after spring, no judges would go through, except by the consent of both the Republicans and Democratic leader. I want to be bipartisan. We will institute the Thurmond Rule."