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With Chief Justice William Rehnquist likely to step down soon due to ill health, Republican senators have decided it is time to break the Democrats' use of the filibuster to block judicial nominations before they use it on a Supreme Court vacancy. So this spring Republican leaders move towards use of the "nuclear option"-demanding a ruling from Vice President Dick Cheney in his capacity as the Senate's president that a majority vote is enough to confirm a judicial nominee. Fund profiles one of Pres Bush's most appealing and qualified appointees, Janice Rogers Brown, currently an associate justice of the California Supreme Court.
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Go Nuclear with Brown
WITH CHIEF JUSTICE William Rehnquist likely to step down soon due to ill health, Republican senators have decided it's time to break the Democrats' use of the filibuster to block judicial nominations before they use it on a Supreme Court vacancy.
So this spring Republican leaders move towards use of the "nuclear option"-demanding a ruling ...See the full content of this document
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