Warner bucks GOP-ers, backs Holder

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Sen. Arlen Specter and other Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee may want to derail or slow down Eric Holder’s nomination to become the next attorney general, but one of their just departed colleagues is going to bat for the nominee.

Former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.), who just stepped down from the Senate after 30 years in the body, will appear on behalf of Holder during Thursday’s Judiciary Committee hearing, according to Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) office. Leahy is the chairman of the panel.

Warner and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) will introduce Holder to the Judiciary panel, and they will offer strong support for his nomination to the AG post.

Other witnesses will include former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh; Chuck Canterbury, national president of the Fraternal Order of Police; and John Payton, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090110/pl_politico/17296;_ylt=ApzmukdtW1kzcIc.VeaN9hGyFz4D

[babylonsister]

1. Whoa. That's big. Might give Specter pause. Or not. nt

[Captain Hilts]

2. Love John!

[Arkana]

3. Heh.

It'll only take one or two more. I bet Lugar splits with the Repubs as well, and there'll be one more at least who'll try to curry favor with the party in power.

[Cha]

4. John Warner and Eleanor Holmes Norton..

quite diverse Americans.