The hearing on April 1 for President Barack Obama’s first appellate court nominee barely began before Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., started grousing that Republicans hadn’t been given enough time to prepare. He and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., had earlier traded letters on the timing, and now Specter wanted a letter from the Republicans admitted to the committee’s official record.
“It will be a part of the record,” said Leahy, chairman of the committee, “and also the news article . . .” That’s when Leahy’s chief counsel, Bruce Cohen, leaned down and whispered to his boss, who was upset that the GOP letter had been released to the media. “. . . And you never received it,” Cohen said.
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