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‘You Might Have Just Saved This Presidency’

That’s the subtitle of my new Confirmation Post, “My Bit Role in Ashcroft Hospital Saga.” Here’s how it begins:

Over the past three decades, beginning with my role as a Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer for Orrin Hatch, I would guess that I have written well over half a million words about judicial nominees. Yet a single short BlackBerry message that I sent late on a frenzied evening in March 2004 might well have had vastly more impact than all those words and all the hours of research that underlay them.

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