Specter: Obama Wants to Avoid Partisan Fights on Judges

• By John Stanton
• Roll Call Staff
• Feb. 3, 2009, 7:05 p.m.

President Barack Obama assured Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) that he does not want the looming judicial nominations process to become bogged down in the kind of partisan fighting that marked most of former President George W. Bush’s nominees and will tap individuals who he hopes can garner GOP support.