81. The vice president had canceled an event in Minneapolis and rushed back to Washington to be on hand for Senate votes on two judicial nominees. 82. There are many judicial nominees waiting to be confirmed or denied. 83. They said they wanted the two issues concerning judicial nominees to be put to a vote. 84. They expect judicial nominees who will maneuver to again criminalize women and girls who have abortions and physicians who perform them. 85. Think a Democratic president guarantees progressive judicial nominees? 86. Though he had supported other black judicial nominees, Ashcroft was later accused of being racially biased. 87. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Senate Democratic leader, hinted that a filibuster was likely if judicial nominees come from the Ashcroft wing of the party. 88. Traditionally, if the Senate Judiciary Committee rejects a judicial nominee, the nomination does not move on to a vote by the full Senate. 89. White was the first judicial nominee of the Clinton administration to be rejected on the Senate floor. 90. Yet the proposals wither every year under hostility from county political organizations, which select judicial nominees. |
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