11.   It is not only issues like abortion and judicial selection that attract religious conservatives to Ashcroft.

12.   It was in the area of judicial selections and civil rights that Brownell was to leave a more enduring mark.

13.   Judicial selection in Texas need a clean slate, and flushing out the Enron money falls woefully short of providing it.

14.   Manuel Quijada, the official supervising the judicial selection process, asked the daily El Universal last week.

15.   On the presidential campaign trail, he has said he would not impose an abortion litmus test on his judicial selections or his choice for vice president.

16.   One Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, charged that Republicans are ignoring Democratic input on judicial selections.

17.   Scholars say the elective systems for judicial selection have their roots in the populist movement that sought to expand the power of the electorate.

18.   State District Judge Ted Poe of Houston is among those who chide critics who want to remove politics from judicial selection.

19.   The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California urged her Tuesday to oppose the nomination, citing his record on civil rights and his potential influence on judicial selections.

20.   The current Bush White House team presiding over judicial selections is unapologetically conservative.