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Senate Nominations Committee Recommends Bradley Confirmation

By Steve Hall

"Senate panel votes to keep chairman of Forensic Science Commission," is the Austin American-Statesman report by Chuck Lindell and Mike Ward. Dividing along party lines after a contentious hearing, a Senate committee voted Monday to recommend that John Bradley continue as chairman of the Texas Forensic Science Commission. Four Republicans, including Nominations Committee Chairman Bob Deuell of Greenville, favored Bradley. Democratic Sens. Kirk Watson of Austin and José Rodríguez of El Paso voted no. Later Monday, Democrats began weighing whether to start a coordinated fight over Bradley's nomination before the full Senate. Most questions at Bradley's nomination hearing touched on his commission's high-profile inquiry into whether faulty science played a role in the conviction and execution of Cameron Todd Willingham for the 1991 arson deaths of his three children...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 01, 2011 (boomark / email).