What was considered a smooth path to confirmation has recently been complicated as signs of hostility toward Holder have increased over the past month.
In little-noticed confirmation testimony recently, Obama nominees endorsed continuing the C.I.A.'s program of transferring prisoners to other countries without legal rights, and indefinitely detaining terrorism suspects without trials even if they were arrested far from a war zone.
The president's remarks and a separate address on Thursday by Vice President Dick Cheney demonstrate just how much the White House has been caught off guard by the fight over Mr. Mukasey, a retired federal judge whose confirmation until recently seemed like a sure thing and had been championed by a leading Democratic senator, Charles E. Schumer of New York.
Confirmation was recently provided by the meta-analysis conducted by Nelson and coworkers [ 38] in 2005.
For the remaining 59 lesions without histopathologic confirmation, a recently performed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of the liver (performed within 2 weeks of CTP study) served as the reference standard.
Confirmation came, more recently, with Terry Johnson's 2000 version of The Graduate.
Wilbur Ross, Trump's pick for Commerce Secretary, and a private-equity billionaire, had also admitted, at his confirmation hearing, having recently fired an undocumented member of his household staff.
These data, collected in a uniform way from all 50 states, have led to safer cars, better roads, crackdowns on drunk drivers and, recently, confirmation of the deadly connection between Ford Explorers and Firestone tyres.Since 1970, motor-vehicle deaths have fallen by 20%, while gun fatalities have risen by 16% (see chart).
But we have near confirmation that they recently turned down an $8 billion valuation simply because the investor wanted a board seat.
