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Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), giving the Democrats’ response to President Reagan’s weekly radio address, accused the Administration of threatening the independence of the federal courts by trying to make deals for Senate approval of Daniel A. Manion, the Indiana conservative whose confirmation for the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago remains uncertain. “Judicial pork-barreling is dead wrong,” Biden said. A 48-46 vote to confirm Manion is to be reconsidered next month.
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