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Article: CFJ Asks Why Are Senate Liberals Using a Double Standard to Keep A Woman off the Federal Court?
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- May 27, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee for Justice (CFJ) today decried Senate liberals' use of a double standard to justify their opposition to the nomination of Judge Carolyn Kuhl to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
The key issue cited by Kuhl's opponents, one of the president's most qualified nominees with bench experience, is her involvement on a brief of an abortion-rights case, Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 476 U.S. 747 (1986), while working for the U.S. Department of Justice in the 1980s. Despite her relatively low-level position at the time, and that numerous attorneys, including then-Acting ...