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Phil Angelides, our state Democratic Party chairman, attacks Senate Democrats for not keeping Clarence Thomas off the Supreme Court (Nov. 18).
Perhaps he and the Democratic presidential candidates could offer, as an incentive to voters, a list of prospective justices from which they would choose their own nominees to the court.
How exciting it would be to know that Rose Bird, Cruz Reynoso and Joseph Grodin might be nominated should Jerry Brown or another imaginative Democrat reach the White House.
PAMELA C. THOMPSON, Cambria
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