NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the one-week delay for the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote on John Ashcroft's nomination to be the next Attorney General. Vermont's Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the panel, said he asked for the seven day delay to examine Ashcroft's responses to their questions. Many feel the time will be used to galvanize the opposition to the former Missouri senator, who has become a lightning rod of criticism by abortion-rights, civil-rights, and gun-control groups.

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