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| Last Edited | None Entered May 22, 2005 04:14am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Sunday, May 22, 2005 04:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | About four in five Americans want the Senate to thoroughly examine the president's nominees to be federal judges _ an attitude shared by a majority of Democrats, Republicans and independents questioned in a new poll.
The rest say those nominees should get the benefit of the doubt and get approved by the Senate without much scrutiny, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll released Friday.
The widespread desire for an aggressive role by the Senate is one of the few aspects of this divisive issue that gets widespread agreement.
Respondents favored conservative over liberal judges in general, 47 percent to 39 percent. As for a possible Supreme Court nominee, 52 percent said they felt comfortable that President Bush would pick the right kind of justice, while 46 percent said they weren't. |
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