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  • Moderate Senator Fights for Top Judiciary Post

    11/08/2004 5:26:23 PM PST · by mdittmar · 212 replies · 2,274+ views
    Reuters ^ | Nov 8, 2004 | Reuters
    Sen. Arlen Specter pledged on Monday not to oppose Supreme Court nominees just because they are anti-abortion as the moderate Republican fought to keep alive his bid to head the Senate panel that oversees judicial nominations. "Absolutely not, and it's not just what I'm saying — I have done it. I have not applied a litmus test, and have voted to confirm pro-life judges," he said in a television interview. But conservative critics kept calling for someone other than the Pennsylvania senator to be Judiciary Committee chairman in the newly elected Congress, and other Senate Republicans said little or nothing...