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...Estrada makes the cut, than all of the other Republican candidates will likely get through, according to Georgetown Law School Professor David Vladeck...
...confirmation of Miguel A. Estrada, a Honduras-born 1986 graduate of Harvard Law School (HLS) whom President Bush nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, has developed into a partisan showdown...
...Democrats’ three-day effort to block Estrada, the Senate chambers have been regaled on a wide variety of topics by a succession of Democratic senators, including a long talk from Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., on the extended courtship of his wife...
Democrats argue that Estrada is a “far-right stealth nominee” whose political beliefs cannot be fully examined because there are no public documents containing his views—so, they say, they need to see internal memos that he wrote while working for the solicitor general’s office...
...only one politician, former Education Secretary Raul Roco, has formally announced an intention to run for the presidency. But there are plenty of other possible aspirants, including Fernando Poe Jr.-like Estrada, he is an action-movie star. Last week the political grapevine buzzed with rumors that ex-President Fidel Ramos might join the fray, although his candidacy could be blocked by a clause in the Philippine constitution preventing any President from being re-elected. (Ramos boosters say the constitution only bars Presidents from serving two consecutive terms.) The People Power II rebellion achieved its goal of getting one President...