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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 8,2004
Abortion issue to weigh on judiciary selection
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Associated Press
White House senior adviser Karl Rove is interviewed on NBC's Meet the Press in Washington yesterday. Rove talked about the re-election of President Bush.
WASHINGTON — Insisting he has no litmus test, the Republican in line to head the Senate Judiciary Committee pledged yesterday not to stall President Bush's judicial nominees, even if the prospective judges oppose abortion rights.
The White House expressed confidence its choices would get a fair hearing.
Sen. Arlen Specter, a moderate from Pennsylvania who backs abortion rights, said he has supported judicial nominee in the past who do not agree with the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion.
"The fact is that I have supported all of President Bush's nominees in committee and on the floor. I have never applied a litmus test," Specter said on CBS "Face the Nation."
Looking ahead to the post-election session of Congress that begins Nov. 16, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he thought House and Senate negotiators should be able to resolve their differences over competing versions of legislation to overhaul U.S. intelligence agencies.
With the election producing stronger Republican majorities in both the House and Senate, Hastert (R-III.), also spoke of the need "to find solutions, and we should do it on a bipartisan basis." A newcomer to the capital, Sen. elect Barack Obama, (D-III.), said the election indicated to him that "people want to get beyond the slash-and-burn, scorched-earth politics that I think has become the custom in Washington."
Meantime, White House political adviser Karl Rove said Bush in his second term "absolutely" would push for a constitutional amendment that says marriage consists only of the union of a
man and a woman. Rove added that the president believes states can deal with the issue of civil unions between gay people, an arrangement that if enacted would grant same-sex partners most or all the rights available to married couples.
Right after Tuesday's election, Specter set off a furor among conservatives when he said anti-abortion judges were unlikely to be confirmed by the newly elected Senate. He said Bush has had trouble getting some of his nominees confirmed because of Democratic fillbusters. He added: "I would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning."
Filibusters, a bill-killing tactic of unlimited debate, remain possible in the new Senate because the Republicans' 55-45 majority falls five votes short of the 60 needed to cut off debate.
Yesterday, Specter said he was only pointing out a political fact: Republicans alone lack the votes to quash a Democratic filibuster of a Bush nominee.
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