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7/6/2005 - Senators Differ on Impact of Nuclear Option on Supreme Court Nomination
With Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's resignation, Senators on both sides have begun to discuss the potential impact of the so-called "nuclear option" and the deal that took it off the table in May....
6/9/2005 - Senate Approves (53-45) Another Right-Wing Extremist Judge
Less than 24 hours after the Senate voted to confirm extreme right-wing Judge Janice Rogers Brown to sit on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, the Senate has confirmed yet another of President Bush's far-right nominees....
6/8/2005 - Senate Confirms Janice Rogers Brown to DC Circuit
On a vote of 56 to 43, the US Senate today confirmed Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
4/21/2005 - Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Right-Wing Judicial Nominees
The Senate Judiciary Committee today on identical party-line votes approved two extreme right-wing Bush nominees to the federal Circuit Courts of Appeals, sending them to the full Senate....
2/15/2005 - Bush Renominates 7 Judicial Nominees Previously Blocked by Senate Democrats
On Monday, President Bush renominated seven of the ten judicial nominees that were blocked by Democratic filibusters during his first term because of their extreme right-wing records....
1/3/2005 - Bush Renominates Blocked Judicial Nominees
The White House has announced that President Bush intends to renominate 20 of his most controversial picks for the federal courts, including those who were blocked by Democratic filibusters....
5/19/2004 - Senate Democrats, White House Reach Deal on Judicial Nominees
Senate Democrats and the White House announced a deal on Tuesday that will allow 25 federal court nominees to receive votes in the full Senate....
3/2/2004 - CA: Supreme Court Rules Catholic Group Must Cover Birth Control
California's Supreme Court on Monday ruled that, in accordance with state law, Catholic Charities must cover contraceptives as part of its employee prescription drug coverage....
11/14/2003 - Women's Rights Leaders Support Current Judicial Filibusters
Women's rights leaders joined women Senators and Senator Tom Daschle (D-ND) today at a press conference at the Capitol supporting current filibusters against anti-women nominees....
11/7/2003 - Senate Committee Approves Right-Wing Judicial Nominee
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to approve the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit....
11/5/2003 - Prominent African Americans Oppose Judicial Nominee
Prominent African Americans gathered today to oppose Senate confirmation of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit....
10/23/2003 - Judiciary Committee Holds Hearing on Far Right Nominee Brown
Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee considered the latest Bush nomination, extreme conservative Janice Rogers Brown, to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals....
7/30/2003 - Bush Nominates Two More Right-Wing Candidates for Federal Judgeships
In his continued effort to pack the courts with far-right ideologues, President Bush recently nominated two more candidates to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals "whose views seem well to the right of the legal and political mainstream," the New York Times wrote in an editorial....
4/2/1996 - Third Woman Poised to Join California High Court
California Gov....
