The surprisingly close confirmation votes for a bipartisan pair of federal judicial nominees were driven by the ongoing partisan battle over the Senate Democratic majority’s effective elimination of the filibuster on most judicial nominations, legal and political analysts said.
The final confirmation votes on Gerald A. McHugh Jr., who was advanced by Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr., D-Pa., and Edward Smith, who was advanced by Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., also bore the stamp of the quintessential hot-button issues for each party: abortion and gun rights.
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