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The Mobile Register has this report, which notes, inter alia, that:

Specter has not scheduled a vote to move Pryor's nomination out of the committee to the full Senate. The committee chairman's decision was first reported Monday by the online version of the conservative weekly Human Events.

Spokesmen for U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Mobile, and Democrats on the Judiciary Committee had no comment.

But Kay Daly, president of the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary, a Washington, D.C.-area advocacy organization that supports Pryor's nomination, said a new hearing would have served little point. "What's left to ask him -- his favorite color?" Daly asked.

Bush recently renominated Pryor for the lifetime seat on the 11th Circuit after Democrats blocked his candidacy in the 2003-04 session of Congress. Pryor's temporary appointment to the court will expire late this year.

Specter, citing opinions that Pryor has written while on the appeals court, has expressed hope that his nomination might fare better this time. So far, however, Democrats have shown no sign of rethinking their opposition.

Elliot Mincberg, legal director at People for the American Way, a Washington, D.C., organization opposed to Pryor, speculated that Specter has concluded that Democrats won't change their minds.

"It's hard to know what else to think of it," Mincberg said.

And a little bird tells me the SJC should be acting on the Pryor renomination in the near future. Stay tuned.