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To: LindyBill who wrote (86467)11/16/2004 10:23:37 AM
From: LindyBill  Read Replies (2) of 793800
 
Both I and Spector thought he had put down the rebellion. Now it sounds like he has lost.

SPECTER & STAFF [Jim Boulet Jr.] THE CORNER

The power a Chairman Arlen Specter would have to staff the Senate Judiciary Committee deserves more concern from Senate Republicans than it has received to date. Personnel is policy. The people a Chairman Specter would hire will be well to the left of the average moderate Republican, let alone the average conservative.

In 1987, I visited with a Specter staffer in support of Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination. I told him that a Justice Bork would not be predictable, unlike, say, California's former Chief Justice, Rose Bird, who was much in the news at the time.

Justice Bird famously overturned 61 consecutive death penalty cases. California voters removed her in 1986.

Specter's man stopped me. "I think Rose Bird is an excellent justice."
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