1.   An international master jury meets in Geneva to review the nominees and make an initial cut.

2.   McGreevey vowed to choose a candidate from outside government and resume the practice of allowing the State Bar Association to review potential nominees.

3.   Miller is not a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has had the responsibility of reviewing judicial nominees throughout almost the entire history of the Senate.

4.   Once a nomination is official, the name goes before the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Western Hemisphere affairs, which usually meets once a month to review nominees.

5.   The nominees are reviewed by special agents in the division and the Office of Public and Congressional Affairs.

6.   If the FBI is not consenting, at this point, to start reviewing nominees for offices, does that, essentially, delay this effort that much longer?

7.   The committee will review nominees to replace FBI Director Louis Freeh, who is retiring in June.

8.   The Judiciary Committee reviews judicial nominees, oftentimes in extensive hearings, before the full Senate votes on confirmation.

9.   The Judiciary Committee reviews judicial nominees, often in extensive hearings, before the full Senate votes on confirmation.