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Arlen Specter to Support Bush Judicial Nominees

By Jeralyn, Section Judiciary
Posted on Thu Nov 04, 2004 at 04:47:55 PM EST
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Earlier news reports that incoming Senate Judiciary Chair Arlen Specter warned President Bush about extremist judicial nominations are false. Specter today laid to rest any hope that he would be a balanced, non-partisan leader on judicial nominations:

“Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the President about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges.

“As the record shows, I have supported every one of President Bush’s nominees in the Judiciary Committee and on the Senate floor. I have never and would never apply any litmus test on the abortion issue and, as the record shows, I have voted to confirm Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice O’Connor, and Justice Kennedy and led the fight to confirm Justice Thomas.

“I have already sponsored a protocol calling for a Judiciary Committee hearing within thirty days of a nomination, a vote out of Committee thirty days later, and floor action thirty days after that. I am committed to such prompt action by the Committee on all of President Bush’s nominees.

“In light of the repeated filibusters by the Democrats in the last Senate session, I am concerned about a potential repetition of such filibusters. I expect to work well with President Bush in the judicial confirmation process in the years ahead.”

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