[Mb-civic] Sides prepare for a pricey high court campaign - The Boston Globe

[William Swiggard]

Sides prepare for a pricey high court campaign

Partisan groups raising millions

By Charlie Savage and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff  |  July 6, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Many are calling it the ''presidential election of 2005," 
a fund-raising effort to wage a White House-style campaign for and 
against President Bush's pending Supreme Court nominee.

Liberal and conservative groups, fired up for an unprecedented clash 
over deeply felt social issues such as abortion rights, set contours 
yesterday for a fund-raising effort that could dwarf almost all past 
political campaigns except those involving the presidency.

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