Sens. Specter And Schumer To Rove: We Want To Know What You Told Dobson About Miers…

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said he wants to know whether presidential adviser Karl Rove privately assured a conservative activist about how Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would rule from the bench.

Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he will would look into a statement by James Dobson, president of the Colorado Springs, Colorado-based advocacy group Focus on the Family, that Dobson has had ``conversations'' with Rove about the woman nominated to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and knows things about Miers ``that I probably shouldn't know.''

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Schumer said the White House should say publicly what it has been telling supporters in private. ``Karl Rove ought to let the public know what kind of assurances he gave James Dobson,'' Schumer said.

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