(Same WashPost story):
Schumer told reporters that Senate Democrats see no reason to back Myers and other nominees who were turned back last year “unless there’s new and dramatic information. . . . I think the president nominating them [again] is, sort of, a poke in the eye.” Of the nominees sent back by Bush, Schumer said, “I think [Myers] would have the easiest chance of all of them, and I don’t think he has the votes yet, either.”
Liberal groups also signaled no letup in their campaign against conservative judges. “Rather than starting a new Congress with judicial nominees commanding bipartisan support, they immediately renew the judicial wars with polarizing nominees who were blocked in the previous Congress,” said Ralph G. Neas, head of People for the American Way.





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