US President Barack Obama (3rd-R) and Vice President Joe Biden (3rd-L) meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (2nd-R) ,D-NV, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (2nd-L),R-KY, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (R) ,D-VT, and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (L),R-AL, about the upcoming Supreme Court nomination on May 13, 2009 at the White House in Washington, DC. Getty Images logo Getty Images 6 months ago

US President Barack Obama (3rd-R) and Vice President Joe Biden (3rd-L) meet with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (2nd-R) ,D-NV, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (2nd-L),R-KY, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy (R) ,D-VT, and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (L),R-AL, about the upcoming Supreme Court nomination on May 13, 2009 at the White House in Washington, DC.

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  1. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (2nd L)(D-NV), hugs John Rockefeller (C)(D-WV) as Christopher Dodd (L)(D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and his wife Marcelle watch after the U.S. Senate voted to begin debate on legislation for a broad healthcare overhaul on Capitol Hill, in Washington, November 21, 2009.
  2. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 21: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) hugs Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) following the Senate's cloture vote on health care reform legislation on Capitol Hill on November 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. The Senate approved the motion to bring the bill to a full debate on the floor of the Senate by 60-39 vote.

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  1. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (2nd L)(D-NV), hugs John Rockefeller (C)(D-WV) as Christopher Dodd (L)(D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and his wife Marcelle watch after the U.S. Senate voted to begin debate on legislation for a broad healthcare overhaul on Capitol Hill, in Washington, November 21, 2009.
  2. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 21: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) hugs Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) following the Senate's cloture vote on health care reform legislation on Capitol Hill on November 21, 2009 in Washington, DC. The Senate approved the motion to bring the bill to a full debate on the floor of the Senate by 60-39 vote.
  3. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev, center left, .gets a hug by Sen. Jay Rockefeller D-W.Va, as Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., left and Sen. Patrick Leahy D-Vt., right, looks on after the U.S. Senate voted to begin debate on legislation for a broad health care overhaul at Capitol Hill in Washington on Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009.
  4. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (C) is greeted by Senator Jeff Sessions (L) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy as he arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington November 18, 2009.
  5. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (R) escorts U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder into the hearing room to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington November 18, 2009.
  6. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., listens as Attorney General Eric Holder, back to camera, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, before the committee's hearing on Justice Department oversight.
  7. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  8. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  9. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  10. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  11. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  12. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  13. WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 18: (L-R) U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, committee ranking member Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) enter the hearing room prior to a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill November 18, 2009 in Washington, DC. The hearing was to examine the 'Oversight of the Department of Justice.'
  14. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (C) is greeted by Senator Jeff Sessions (L) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy as he arrives to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington November 18, 2009.
  15. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, and the committee's ranking Republican Sen Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., left, stands with Attorney General Eric Holder, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, prior to Holder testifying before the committee's Justice Department oversight hearing.
  16. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., presides over a hearing on effective strategies for preventing health care fraud, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. From left are, Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the committee's ranking Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Leahy.

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