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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (63987)5/7/2008 11:02:20 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 542655
 
I thought what he described was exactly the process. The president nominates and the senate confirms unless the nominee isn't qualified.

If that is what the process is supposed to be, then that is what the constitution would have said. The phrase is "Advise and consent." The people at the Constitutional Convention had far too much mistrust of any one person or even any one branch to allow the president to have the kind of power that you and McCain describe over who gets appointed to the federal courts.
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