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Who’s calling whom the party of no?

May 10, 2010 Arthur Lieber Civil Rights, Congress, History, Politics 4 comments

The last Supreme Court nominee of a Democratic president to be rejected was in the 19th century. Two of President Grover Cleveland’s nominees failed to receive Senate confirmation in 1894.

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