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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., left, stands up to leave in frustration as Republican members of the panel did not show up for an executive meeting to consider a dozen of President Barack Obama's judicial nominations, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, defends the value of the filibuster on judicial nominees, saying Democrats are trying to pack the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. (Associated Press)