Business Group to Join Push for Conservative Judges: ; Manufacturers Team Up with Social Conservatives to Aid White House On Judicial Confirmations

Charleston Daily Mail › January 07, 2005

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WASHINGTON - A powerful business lobby is preparing a multimillion-dollar campaign to aid the White House in its quest to win approval for conservative judges, a move that could transform the ideological battles over the federal judiciary and the Supreme Court.

The new effort on behalf of some of the nation's biggest manufacturers will increase the cost, visibility and intensity of an already divisive confirmation process, one that until now has been dominated by social issues and civil rights.

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Business Group to Join Push for Conservative Judges: ; Manufacturers Team Up with Social Conservatives to Aid White House On Judicial Confirmations

The shift puts the business lobby on the same side as social conservatives. The corporate world has long shied away from such controversial issues as abortion but enthusiastically supports the Bush administration's campaign to rein in what it calls frivolous lawsuits against ...

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