On Thursday, White House staffers met with aides to Democrats on the Judiciary Committee to go over this and their strategies for Sotomayor's confirmation, according to a Senate Democratic aide involved in the confirmation process.

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However, it is more common than we think according to Brian Fox who founded Capital Confirmation that developed automated software and a process to assure the confirmation you get is accurate.

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As part of the confirmation process, he met members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and, according to Connaughton, Kaufman asked Lohier about his priorities at the Southern District, hoping to hear about financial-fraud cases.

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