21.   Clinton has promised to press the Senate to act on his judicial nominees in an expeditious fashion when it returns from the August recess.

22.   Conservative thought now dominates the law, from classrooms to courtrooms, and in terms of judicial nominees.

23.   Currently, under a Senate tradition known as a blue slip, senators have a right to veto a home state judicial nominee without having the action disclosed.

24.   Democrats now vow to take a hard look at future judicial nominees of similar conservative stripe.

25.   Either U.S. senator from Texas, under a long-honored tradition of senatorial courtesy, could prevent a judicial nominee from getting Senate confirmation.

26.   Eight judicial nominees have been cleared by the Judiciary Committee but have not been voted in the Senate, in part because of right-wing opposition.

27.   Gonzales asked one thin helping to vet dozens of judicial nominees for the federal bench and for the U.S. Supreme Court.

28.   Gonzales said that the responsibility of reviewing requests will likely fall to his staff which, among its other duties, also screens judicial nominees.

29.   Hatch encouraged the judicial nominees to keep their promises.