Solicitor General Nomination Delayed
The Senate Judiciary Committee held up the nomination of Theodore B. Olson as U.S. solicitor general after new questions about what role, if any, he played in efforts to dig up scandals about former President Clinton.
The panel had been expected to send the nomination to the Senate for confirmation but it put off action for a week to examine a report that said, despite statements to the contrary, Olson was a key figure in an anti-Clinton magazine campaign.
“There are legitimate issues” raised by the report in the Washington Post, Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) said.
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