In a move lauded by the legal community, U.S. Sen. Paul Simon(D-Ill) revealed plans Friday for apolitical merit commissions tohelp pick federal judges, prosecutors and marshals.
Simon also announced that he would share the selection offinalists with his junior colleague, Sen.-elect Carol Moseley Braun.By tradition, the senior senator of the president's party in eachstate usually has sole discretion for such nominations.
"Sen. Simon, by offering me an equal role to his in thisprocess, is being quite generous and magnanimous," Braun said in astatement distributed during a news conference where Simon made theannouncements.
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