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...recommendation and to release their transcripts to a selection committee, which included Harvard juniors and seniors who had already been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. The committee, which was moderated by faculty members, met from May 10 to 12 and evaluated the intensity, diversity, and integrity of each nominee??s academic record...
...gain than of genuine concern for a reactionary judiciary. Candidates blocked on racial grounds can be exploited to garner support from minorities, while obstruction of those failing the abortion test riles up pro-choice groups. Both parties know that in reality it is very difficult to predict a potential nominee??s behavior once he or she is actually on the bench. Republican nominees from Earl Warren to John Paul Stevens to David Souter have gone on to be among the Court’s most liberal justices; Antonin Scalia, widely considered today’s most conservative justice...
...capacity, Boston’s fire marshal ordered its doors shut last night more than an hour before Kerry took the stage. Delegates, special guests and reporters were barred from the DNC by police officers; and though a few VIPs talked their way in to catch for the nominee??s speech, the vast majority were forced to depart and watch Kerry from a local watering hole—or, for a lucky few gathered by one of the Center’s entrances, to witness an impromptu rendition of the candidate’s remarks by a foul...
Republicans countered by arguing that a nominee??s ideology should not matter. Instead Senate Republicans cited Estrada’s superb qualifications and wide bipartisan support, insinuating that Democrats held his Hispanic heritage against...
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...