41.   In addition, Clinton has had a dismal record of winning confirmation for his federal judicial nominees in the committee controlled by Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah.

42.   In other words, Jipping thinks that his false political attacks on Clinton judicial nominees should be kept secret from anyone who disagrees with him.

43.   In order to press a point, Democrats had threatened a filibuster against all the judicial nominees of President Clinton, a fellow Democrat.

44.   Jeanne Lopatto, a spokeswoman for the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Ashcroft had supported every black judicial nominee ultimately confirmed by the Senate.

45.   Jipping is director of the Judicial Selection Monitoring Project, an extreme-right organization that has been behind many of the attacks on recent judicial nominees.

46.   Judicial nominees must be confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Feinstein is a member.

47.   Judicial nominees have been backlogged by senators who suspect legal radicalism lurking in self-evident and proven moderates.

48.   Last year, he ended the nearly five decades long practice of having the American Bar Association vet judicial nominees.

49.   Later Tuesday senators approved two other Clinton judicial nominees.

50.   Lipez, who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee with four other judicial nominees, could be approved by the committee as early as next Thursday.