Attempt to link court hearings, GOP response seen as tenuous

WASHINGTON -- Leading Democrats yesterday moved quickly to link the confirmation hearings of the Supreme Court nominee, John G. Roberts Jr., to the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe -- starting with a long discourse by the ranking member, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, about how the floods showed that government must ''help ensure justice and equal opportunity for all, and especially for ... (Full article: 627 words)

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