Call it wishful thinking, but we had hoped that GOP control of the Senate meant that we would finally get to stop writing about judicial politics. We hadn`t counted on Senator Chuck Schumer. The New York Democrat and member of the Judiciary Committee has started the New Year with a harangue, playing the race card and vowing to filibuster the nomination of Charles Pickering, Sr., whom President Bush renominated Tuesday to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
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