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Legislative Bomb

April 25, 2005 issue

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Presents an editorial regarding judicial nominations in the United States under President George W. Bush. Desire of House majority leader Tom DeLay to place right-wing judges in the Supreme Court; Frustration of Senate majority leader Bill Frist at the use of the filibuster by Senate Democrats to block judicial nominations; Statement that Bush has submitted the names of Janice Brown and Priscilla Owen as judicial nominees; Possibility that the Senate Republicans will change the rules to make filibusters of judicial nominees impossible.

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JUDICIAL process; JUDGES -- Selection & appointment; FILIBUSTERS (Political science); COURTS -- Officials & employees; BROWN, Janice; OWEN, Priscilla; FRIST, William H.; UNITED States
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