Bush's Conservative Judicial Nominees May Be “Doomed”....

The New York Times NEIL A. LEWIS November 11, 2006 11:06 PM

The impending Democratic takeover of the Senate, lawmakers and administration officials agree, will produce a vast change in an area that has produced some of the sharpest partisan battles in recent years: President Bush's effort to shape the federal bench with conservative judicial nominees.

There is a strong consensus that the four most conservative of Mr. Bush's nominations to the federal appeals courts are doomed. Republicans and Democrats say the four have no chance of confirmation in the next several weeks of the lame-duck Congressional session or in the final two years of Mr. Bush's term.

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