Specter: Bush (judicial) nominees may be more moderate

[FernBell]

With the loss of a Republican majority and his chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) said President Bush may be forced to nominate more moderate judges should other Supreme Court vacancies occur.

Specter, who will yield his gavel in early January to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D., Vt.), said the Democrats might want to slow the process of judicial confirmations - or even halt them - as the next presidential election approaches in 2008.

"It could mean that the president would have to select a more moderate nominee," Specter said.

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He said he hoped the lame-duck Congress would take up legislation he helped craft to allow judicial review of controversial wiretapping by the National Security Agency.

"Every day that goes by, there's an invasion of privacy without determination of legality," Specter said.


http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/15998086.htm

[fooj]

1. Now he gives a shit about an "invasion of privacy"?

Give me a break.

[wakeme2008]

2. Specter is smoking DOPE

Bush will not change.. :grr:

[bluerum]

3. Ha ha. They would be flaming nazi's if they were any more ideological. nt