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Republican senators publicly explained their opposition to his nomination. In follow-up questions to his hearing testimony, however, several Republican senators focused on Green's decision to seek drug treatment rather than jail for
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He has served in numerous other capacities in the office, including as the
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that Obama would not be renominating Green to the seat. "Mike Green would have made an outstanding judge and it is very unfortunate not only for him, but for a strong judiciary, that partisan politics stood in the way," Schumer said in a statement on
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lead prosecutor on four first degree murder cases, including one of the few capital cases to end with a death sentence in New York. As
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