Brownback Wants Fuller Portrait of High Court Nominees
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Updated: 8:17 PM Oct 6, 2005
Brownback Wants Fuller Portrait of High Court Nominees
Senator Sam Brownback emerges from a meeting with Harriet Miers to say he still has a lot of questions about the Supreme Court nominee.
Posted: 8:17 PM Oct 6, 2005
Reporter: AP
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Senator Sam Brownback emerges from a meeting with Harriet Miers to say he still has a lot of questions about the Supreme Court nominee.

The Kansas Republican was one of four members of the Senate
Judiciary Committee to hold individual sessions with Miers Thursday.

Brownback is among several conservatives who have expressed
disappointment at President Bush's choice of his White House counsel to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Brownback and others had hoped for a nominee with clear track record on abortion and other issues.

Miers and Brownback met for an hour Thursday. Brownback later said
Miers declined to take a position on a 1965 case about contraceptives, in which the Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to privacy.

Brownback says he'll decide if Miers will receive his vote only after he learns more about her judicial philosophy.

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