First Ashcroft, now Olson. Apparently the punishment for flat-out lying to the Senate during your confirmation hearings is to receive the position you were nominated for.
That said, it's nice to see that at least one of George II Fraudulency's guns may get spiked: Democrats said today that they were hoping to use their new power not only to block strongly conservative nominees but also to discourage the Bush White House from considering such candidates. To that end, [Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who will become the chairman of the Judiciary Committee] said the committee would not conduct hearings on judicial nominees until it received an evaluation on the candidate's fitness to serve as a judge from the American Bar Association. That would largely foil the Bush White House's efforts to eliminate the special role of the bar association in evaluating judicial candidates.
Copyright © 2001, Iain Jackson, after-words.org
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