Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid scheduled a climactic vote for Thursday on the nomination of attorney Patricia Millett to the Washington D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, who Republicans have opposed for months. They have no particular objection to Millett — they objected to all three of President Obama’s nominees to the court. The opposition was enough to make the administration withdraw Caitlin Halligan’s nomination in March.
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