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Democrats Try To Block Kavanaugh Bid
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Jan 03, 2006 12:53pm |
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| Category | News |
| News Date | Friday, December 30, 2005 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | New York Sun article.
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"With so much attention focused on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, President Bush’s lower-court nominees have drawn relatively little notice in recent months. But a quiet maneuver last week by Senate Democrats aimed at blocking one of the president’s closest advisers from the federal bench has set the stage for a potentially ferocious battle early next year.
Mr. Bush’s staff secretary and a former clerk to Justice Kennedy, Brett Kavanaugh, is one of six federal 2005 Circuit Court nominees nominated in who have yet to be voted on by the Senate. Mr. Kavanaugh is the only one whose nomination was bounced back to the White House under an arcane rule on Wednesday — and some Republicans think they know why.
A graduate of Yale Law School who clerked for two Circuit Court judges before clerking for Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Kavanaugh, 40, was also an associate counsel in the Office of the Independent Counsel during the 1998 impeachment hearing of President Clinton. He was a principal author of the Starr Report, a detailed account of Mr. Clinton’s affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
Mr. Kavanaugh’s supporters in Washington say Mr. Clinton’s wife, Senator Clinton, is behind an effort to scuttle the former impeachment lawyer’s nomination to the federal Court of Appeals for the Washington, D.C., Circuit — a charge that Mrs. Clinton’s office denies." |
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