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The judicial-confirmation wars have started again--sort of.(The Week)(Brief article)

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The judicial-confirmation wars have started again--sort of. Employing the kind of tactics they perfected in earlier fights against Bush nominees, Democrats forced Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a second hearing on appeals-court candidate Brett Kavanaugh. But the hearing produced nothing. Democratic senators wanted to know if Kavanaugh had anything to do with administration memos concerning torture. He didn't. They wanted to know if he knew Jack Abramoff. He didn't. They even wanted to know whether--horrors!--Karl Rove sometimes sat in on White House ...

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