It is not trial experience. There is a big difference. She deserved a vote just as much as anybody else. She never got the vote. Had she gotten the vote, then I think she would have been confirmed. It is not a question of Judge Rader, whom I happen to like, who is a close personal friend of mine, and whom I supported; it is a question of who gets a vote around here.
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