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6/26/08 — Has Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy no shame when it comes to judicial nominees? We’ll find out in the coming months by watching whether he continues to deny a committee vote to D.C. Circuit nominee Peter Keisler, a former Assistant Attorney General at the Justice Department. click
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6/20/08 — Anyone attending yesterday’s press conference for Fourth Circuit nominee Bob Conrad – sponsored by Sen. Specter and attended by Sens. Dole, Burr, Hatch, and Sessions – must have walked away shaking their head over Senator Leahy’s refusal to give Judge Conrad a hearing. click
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6/13/08 — By now, you’ve likely heard plenty of analysis of whether yesterday’s Boumediene decision by the Supreme Court – striking down the heart of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (MCA) and bestowing the right of habeas corpus on terror suspects held at Gitmo – was correctly reasoned. click
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6/9/08 — Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal decried Senate Democrats’ obstruction of judicial nominees as “unprecedented in its stinginess,” and noted that “[w]e'll soon see if Republicans will take this lying down.” The answer came the next day, when GOP Senate Leader Mitch McConnell forced Senate clerks to read aloud the entire 491-page substitute amendment to the climate change bill. click
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