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...Disability activists have been phoning Democrats on Judiciary demanding that they block Columbus, Ohio, attorney Jeffrey Sutton from taking a seat on the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Sutton, who's a former Ohio solicitor, successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court last year that the Constitution limits suits against state governments for discrimination because of a disability. Liberals also accuse him of being hostile to civil rights...
...high-powered Washington law firm. Born in Honduras, he'd also be the first Hispanic judge to reach the Appeals Court in the District of Columbia. But one of Estrada's law partners is considered a Darth Vader by the Democratic Party: Theodore B. Olson, Bush's recently confirmed solicitor general who successfully argued W's election case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The D.C. Appeals Court has also been a stepping stone to the Supreme Court for other conservative jurists, such as Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. If the 39- year-old Estrada made that leap several years later...
...different once it goes through a panel headed by chairman Carl Levin, a leading skeptic. At Commerce, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings will put a shoulder to Bush's deregulatory push. While Democrats as a first gesture of conciliation dropped their efforts to stall the nomination of Solicitor General Ted Olson, Bush's more controversial judicial nominations may die in Leahy's Judiciary Committee--or be euthanized before they get there. On Saturday, for example, the New York Times reported that California conservative Chris Cox asked Bush not to nominate him to the federal bench because the confirmation fight would...
THEODORE OLSON Confirmed as Solicitor General, gets in under the wire-- before the Dems start getting rough...
...Even the liberals supported Lynch in his next effort though--a bill to require the registration of all Cambridge communists. But the law was struck from the books after being pronounced illegal by the city solicitor...