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Guest host: Steve Roberts
For years, Republican members of Congress stymied President Clinton's attempts to appoint federal judges. Today some GOP representatives want to change the procedure for appointing judges so that Democrats can't return the favor. A panel talks about the politics of filling vacancies on the federal bench, and how it's affecting the judicial system.
Joan Biskupic, reporter, "USA Today;" author, "Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice;" now working on a biography about Justice Antonin Scalia.
Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice
Clint Bolick, Vice President of the Institute for Justice
Guest host: Steve Roberts
When longtime Washington Post editorial page editor and Newsweek columnist Meg Greenfield died in 1999, friends and colleagues learned that she'd left behind an almost-completed book detailing her observations of the nation's capital. Several of those friends and colleagues come together to remember Meg Greenfield and to present her now-published final work, Washington, published by Public Affairs.
Michael Beschloss, historian and literary executor of Meg Greenfield's estate
Kate Lehrer, author, most recently of "Confessions of a Bigamist."
Don Graham, chairman of The Washington Post
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