Patrick Leahy: “This article documents the deep and widespread bipartisan support that Margaret Morrow enjoys from Republicans that know…”

“This article documents the deep and widespread bipartisan support that Margaret Morrow enjoys from Republicans that know her. In fact, these Republicans are shocked that some Senators have attacked Ms. Morrow. For example, Sheldon H. Sloan, a former president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and an associate of Gov. Pete Wilson, declared that: "My party has the wrong woman in their sights." Stephen S. Trott, a former high-ranking official in the Reagan administration and now a Court of Appeals judge wrote to the majority leader to try to free up the Morrow nomination, according to this article Judge Trott informed Senator Lott. I know that you are concerned, and properly so, about the judicial philosophy of each candidate to the federal bench. So am I. I have taken the oath, and I know what it means: follow the law, don't make it up to suit your own purposes. Based on my own long acquaintance with Margaret Morrow, I have every confidence she will respect the limitations of a judicial position. Robert Bonner, the former head of DEA under a Republican administration, observed in the article that: "Margaret has gotten tangled in a web of larger forces about Clinton nominees. She is a mere pawn in this struggle." I could not agree more. Mr. President, it is time to free the nomination of Margaret Morrow from this tangled web that some extremists are trying to weave. It is time to debate and vote on the nomination of Margaret Morrow.”