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The Montgomery Advertiser has this report, which notes, inter alia, that:

A group of 14 senators cleared the way Monday for a confirmation vote for former Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor, whose nomination to a federal appeals court was battered by a long and bitter fight over his fitness for the bench.

"This agreement should clear the way for him," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, Pryor's staunchest backer in the Senate.

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Sessions said he hoped a confirmation vote for Pryor would be held soon, hopefully in the next couple of weeks.

"I'd like to push it and get it done as soon as possible," Sessions said. "It is better to move while the ink is still fresh (on the agreement) because people flip-flop."

Sessions, who backed Frist's efforts to eliminate the filibuster judicial nominees, said it was better to have the agreement.

"I have always thought an agreement would be better than a constitutional rules change," Sessions said.

(cross-posted at Southern Appeal)