https://freerepublic.com/tag/blockvote/ en-us Fri, 7 Nov 2003 04:18:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1016548/posts <p>Washington -- Democrats made clear Thursday they intend to block California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown from the nation's highest appellate court, even as she won 10-9 party-line approval of her nomination by the Senate Judiciary Committee.</p> <p>Brown, an outspoken African American conservative and the daughter of an Alabama sharecropper, became the latest lightning rod for opposition to President Bush's conservative court nominees as her home-state senator, Dianne Feinstein, led the united Democratic opposition to the judge's confirmation on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.</p> SFGate.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1016548/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2003 04:18:56 GMT