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...TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...renomination became a referendum on the past. At one point, Senator Orrin Hatch took the last minutes of his testimony against Johnsen to praise the authors of the Bush-era memos, John Yoo and Jay Bybee, calling them "two brilliant guys" and "very excellent people." Conversely, Democrats split their time between urging support for Johnsen and condemning the Bush lawyers who came before her. The vote to again send her nomination for a floor vote was on strict party lines. (See four myths about Supreme Court nominees...
Johnsen declined to comment to TIME beyond a statement released on April 9, in which she too blamed GOP intransigence. "I hope that the withdrawal of my nomination will allow this important office to be filled promptly," she wrote. (See who's who in Barack Obama's White House...
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...democratic concessions is unlikely to succeed without the support of the only opposition force in Egypt with a real grass-roots following: the banned Muslim Brotherhood. That leaves ElBaradei facing the question of whether to make common cause with a party regarded with suspicion by many secular democrats. (Watch TIME's video "10 Questions for Mohamed ElBaradei...