Haunting Specter

Arlen Specter's impending chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee has conservatives concerned | Lynn Vincent

The day after winning a dicey reelection fight, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, presumptive new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, held a press conference in which reporters asked him how he would handle pro-life judicial nominees. Perhaps feeling flush with imminent power, the famously pro-abortion Republican pledged allegiance to Roe vs. Wade—and seemed to warn President Bush that his judicial nominees should do likewise.

Those remarks ignited protests by conservatives who jammed airwaves and Senate phone lines, questioning Sen. Specter's fitness to chair the committee that would chart the future direction of the Supreme Court. Sensing his imminent power slipping away, he scrambled to "clarify" his earlier statements:

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November 20, 2004, Vol. 19, No. 45

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