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A coalition of university students take time out from their studies to filibuster in Washington.

With Republicans poised to detonate the nuclear option on the judicial filibuster, Princeton University students' ongoing mock-filibuster crossed the two-week mark yesterday. Participants are celebrating the occasion by relocating the protest from outside the school's Frist Campus Center -- yes, the one named for Bill "let's go ahead and nuke 'em" Frist -- to outside the Republican Senate Majority Leader's office in Washington, D.C. About 50 Princeton students -- joined by U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., and other supporters from Howard University, Georgetown University, Trinity College, George Washington University and American University -- will filibuster for 24 hours starting Wednesday, concluding with a press conference on Thursday morning. The protesters will then return to campus to finish out finals week.

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