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...Senate Democrats conducting a filibuster against the confirmation of Harvard Law School graduate Miguel A. Estrada give as their reason that Estrada would not answer questions about how he would decide cases that came before him, would not criticize Supreme Court precedents and that the Department of Justice would not release drafts of confidential memoranda he wrote as an assistant to the Solicitor General in both Republican and Democrat administrations. This position is untenable...
Although on its editorial page The New York Times cheers on the Democrat filibuster, in its own news pages it has reported that every living Solicitor General, Republican and Democrat, has signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee stating that the release of their staff’s confidential memorandum to the Solicitor General would be unprecedented and severely damaging to the professionalism and efficacy of the office. The Times has also reported that the unsubstantiated canard being floated by one disgruntled and partisan former colleague criticizing the quality of Estrada’s work in the Solicitor?...
...vital, if patchy, data that sputtered down from Columbia after voice communications were lost. As NASA scrambled to manage events, officials in Washington began taking sides, some sharpening the long knives for the agency, others lining up to defend it. "Space exploration will go on," says Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat of Louisiana. "[But] there will be intense investigations...
...letter on Wednesday, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales wrote to senators that such documents cannot be released—and, he added, all living former solicitors general, both Democrat and Republican, have agreed with him in principle...
...weaker links in the president's proposal, in regard to what's politically possible." Former GOP Senator Warren Rudman, who is co-chair of the anti-deficit Concord Coalition, suggests many of his erstwhile compatriots have forsaken principle for politics. "I suppose if we had a Democrat in the White House," he complains, "Republicans would go ballistic...