The current chair of the Senate Judiciary panel - Democrat Patrick Leahy - says he will do all he can to make sure a new justice is confirmed by the time the Supreme Court reconvenes on October 5.
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The long-serving Republican incumbent there lost in an extremely close vote to DemocratPatrick Murphy.
But LaBella offered a kinder assessment of the choices made by Reno when pressed by Vermont DemocratPatrick Leahy, who acted as the subcommittee's ranking member for the proceedings.