Why Estrada Went Down

September 11, 2003 | This article appeared in the September 29, 2003 edition of The Nation.

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A few hours after Miguel Estrada withdrew his name for a judgeship on
the Court of Appeals for the Washington, DC, Circuit, a leading Senate
liberal was asked about the meaning of the two-year

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