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Trent Lott: “let me comment because I wanted to clarify that. The problem has been that we had, I think, 16 or 17 judges that had…”

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let me comment because I wanted to clarify that. The problem has been that we had, I think, 16 or 17 judges that had been reported out of the Judiciary Committee, and objections had been heard from any Senators that did not have their judge in that group of 4 or 9. So in order to not have objections, I guess we would have had to have had all 16 or 17 of them cleared that had been reported before June 27. We could not clear them, all 16 or 17 of them, so I thought we would get a block of as many as we could. But we are in a position where any Senator that does not have his cleared is going to object, apparently, to any combination I come up with.
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Discussing the challenges of confirming judicial nominees in the Senate.

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