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Judicial Screening

NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg reports that the Bush administration is trying to decide whether to fight Democrats over the use of the American Bar Association to screen judicial nominees. The administration would like to eliminate this step in the nomination process, though it's been done since the days of President Eisenhower.

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