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To: Sam who wrote (64172)	5/7/2008 4:12:07 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 543141

I thought you were originally espousing the belief that the Senate's only duty with respect to nominations is to tell the President whether or not the nominee is "qualified." I was and I am. it formalized a common understanding of the parties that the minority party would have at least some minimal say with respect to judicial nominations, and second, that the President would have to nominate people who would be at least minimally acceptable to the minority. I support that notion, although I dislike having it formalized. And it recognized that someone might have the experience to be a federal judge, but might be so politically unpalatable that he should not sit on the bench. You're assuming that the rejection of a candidate under that rule would be strictly based on politics. If that were the case, the minority would automatically reject all candidates until the president came up with one from the minority party. It makes no sense. What makes more sense is that they would use that "veto" to get rid of the outliers, should the president be perverse enough to nominate an outlier.

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