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Thu Sep-04-03 07:57 PM
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Judicial Nominee Estrada Withdraws Name

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We won. Let the message ring clear that conservative nominees who refuse to discuss their views will not be tolerated. Chickens come home to roost!!!

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=4&u=/ap/20030905/ap_on_go_co/senate_judges

WASHINGTON - Miguel Estrada, whose nomination became a flash point for Democratic opposition to President Bush (news - web sites)'s judicial choices, withdrew from consideration for an appeals court seat Thursday after Republicans failed in seven attempts to break a Senate filibuster.

President Bush called Estrada's treatment "disgraceful." But Senate Democrats said he was a casualty of the White House's insistence on stacking federal appeals courts with conservative ideologues.

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