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Word among some attendees at this past weekend's American Constitution Society for Law and Policy meeting in Washington, D.C. was that Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had done the leftist organization and its many lawyers and wanna-be legal scholars a huge favor. "First, Specter refused to give [Supreme Court nominee Judge John] Roberts a full endorsement," says a member of the ACS, which was started several years ago as a liberal competitor to the more well-known and established Federalist Society. "Then he presses the Administration for documents on Roberts for us. He's been a more than...