After Fight, Senate Agrees to Bush's Choice for Judge (6 Dems with Bush) [View All]

[Maddy McCall]

By NEIL A. LEWIS

Published: July 7, 2004


ASHINGTON, July 6 - The judicial nomination wars, dormant in recent months, re-emerged Tuesday as the Senate narrowly confirmed one of President Bush's nominees to the bench who has argued that abortion is akin to the Holocaust and that the Bible requires women to be subservient to men.

The Senate voted 51 to 46 to put J. Leon Holmes on the federal bench in Arkansas after a fierce debate in which some Republican women voted against the president while Democrats from Mr. Holmes's home state, Arkansas, spoke of him in glowing terms.

Mr. Holmes has a record of saying startling things, like his statement that rape victims become pregnant as often as it snows in Miami. He also wrote in 1997 that in a marriage "the woman is to place herself under the authority of the man."

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In the end, six Democrats voted in favor of Mr. Bush's candidate, while five Republicans broke ranks and opposed him. In addition to John W. Warner of Virginia, and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, the other three Republicans voting against Mr. Holmes were all women, Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas and Susan Collins and Olympia J. Snowe, both of Maine.

In addition to Senators Lincoln and Pryor (both Arkansas Democrats), the Democrats who supported the nomination included Zell Miller of Georgia, Ben Nelson of Nebraska and John B. Breaux and Mary L. Landrieu, both of Louisiana.

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