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Administrative/Regulatory

Apr. 2, 2003

Committee Challenge Fails

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge dismissed a bid by a conservative lawyer to dismantle a committee that recommends to President Bush nominees to be district judges and U.S. attorneys in California.

        LOS ANGELES - A federal judge dismissed a bid by a conservative lawyer to dismantle a committee that recommends to President Bush nominees to be district judges and U.S. attorneys in California.
        "If this court were to interject itself in this process, it would violate the separation of powers doctrine," U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper of Los Angeles said in a ruling is...

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