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...Office announcement, she might have squeaked through a Senate where the President's party holds a five-seat majority. But she fumbled consistently. She seemed to confuse Chief Justices Earl Warren and Warren Burger in a meeting with Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont. She left Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania with the impression that she supported the privacy rights in the 1965 Griswold decision. Then she corrected him. In an unprecedented move, she was basically told to redo her questionnaire for the Senate Judiciary Committee. Senators who met her emerged more and not less doubtful...
Harriet Miers can ill afford to lose any more support. But sources at the Capitol tell TIME that the Supreme Court nominee has aggravated Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, the Republican from Pennsylvania, who will oversee a confirmation hearing set to begin Nov. 7. With conservative calls for Miers to withdraw escalating by the day, Specter had started to feel sorry for her and was trying to help. But the Senator, says an official who has talked to him, is now "very, very, very unhappy...
...quarter of Paris. He has chosen to immortalize the semi-humorous love tragedy of an insatiable young English War widow and an unmanned U. S. soldier. His title is borrowed from Ecclesiastes; his motto about "a lost generation, is from Gertrude Stein; his widow Lady Brett Ashley, from Michael Arlen's Green Hat. She is repeatedly called "a nice piece," and "a good chap." She has a grim wit and not a shred of reticence The hero failing, her other men ar many, including a Princeton Jew and a Spanish bullfighter. The story, such as it is, comes from...
...haven't heard much about the potential replacement for Sandra Day O'Connor that they like. On Fox News Sunday, Gary Bauer, a prominent conservative evangelical, said "she sounds a lot like another swing vote, which was the last thing we were expecting a conservative president to give us." Arlen Specter, a moderate and top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on ABC's This Week he planned on aggressively questioning Miers on constitutional issues, because he isn't sure she's very familiar with them. And conservatives may now have more reason to worry about Miers. Texas Supreme...
...Arlen Specter, R-Pa., the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, praised Roberts’ judicial philosophy, but remained cautious about how President Bush’s nominee would act once on the Supreme Court...