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November 16th, 2006, 01:25 AM
#1
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November 15, 2006, 1:39 pm
One More Time for Judicial Nominees
After calling for bipartisanship, President Bush surprised Senate Democrats with plans to renominate a controversial list of judges ? some of whom may be unacceptable even to a few Republican senators. ?It?s an unfortunate signal,? said one senior Democratic Senate aide.
The Senate Judiciary Committee has not received the nominations yet. As word spread about the nominations, however, the committee?s Republican Chairman Arlen Specter told reporters: ?It is obvious they cannot move during the lame-duck session.? After January, he added, questions about the fate of the nominees should be ?directed to someone else.?
The White House action is viewed largely as an effort to appease the party?s conservative base. An administration official says there will be a formal White House announcement on the renominations later today. The president is in Moscow, having left Washington last night.
Lawmakers and others had been waiting to see whether Bush would renominate four particularly controversial appeals court candidates whose nominations had expired without Senate action. He did. <clip>
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/1...cial-nominees/
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November 16th, 2006, 02:50 AM
#2
Inactive Member
Let's hope that, like Bolton, this will go nowhere.
I have no doubt that BushCo will continue to pretend he's got the majority support. Once a bully, always a bully, imho.
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