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Senator Arlen Specter, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that his panel would hold confirmation hearings next week for two of President Bush's nominees for federal judgeships, who had been blocked earlier by Senate Democrats. Mr. Specter said the committee would hold a hearing on Tuesday for William G. Myers III, a nominee for the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and on Thursday for District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, a nominee for the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. "I have a commitment to the president to give his nominees prompt hearings and to...

Dear Senators: On behalf of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), the nation's oldest, largest, and most diverse civil and human rights coalition, we write to express our opposition to the confirmation of William G. Myers to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. We are very troubled by many aspects of Myers' record including his disregard and disrespect for the concerns of the Native American community and his troubling legal philosophy that would elevate property rights to a level of constitutional scrutiny reserved for fundamental rights, such as the right to free speech and equal protection....