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Since the Senate last confirmed a Supreme Court justice, more than half of its seats have changed hands. Only three senators remain, all Democrats, who took part in all of the highly charged, conservative-liberal confirmation battles since 1968.
A mythology has sprung up over how much the 1987 defeat of conservative Robert Bork changed the role of outside interest groups in fights once waged solely in the Senate, a longtime Senate aide says.See the full content of this document
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Confirmation Battles Seem to Be Getting Nastier
"All of that is history written by people who weren't there," said James Flug, then as now a close adviser to Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy. He said some of the same liberal groups have always been...
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