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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-02-08 12:36 PM
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16. Senatorial courtesy, no doubt
Once a nominee gets out of committee and to the Senate floor, Senators feel constrained to vote for one another's District Court judicial nominees out of courtesy. There has to be some stink raised by a credible interest group to contest a nomination, and in 2003, Basic Rights Oregon just wasn't all that important to national politics (and it probably still isn't very important) to derail an otherwise qualified nominee endorsed put forward by a respected Republican member of the Senate. Also, keep in mind that Gordon Smith had made a big show during his 2002 election campaign of getting the endorsement of Matthew Shepard's family to establish his credentials as progressive (for a Republican) on gay issues. So any niggling questions about Mosman were tucked away in the bipartisan spirit of Senatorial comity.
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