Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., says he will ask Supreme Court justice nominee John Roberts dignified, appropriate and probing questions about such topics as the role of precedent, the separation of governmental powers and the abortion issue.

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Arlen Specter, running for a historic fifth term to represent Pennsylvania in the Senate, has racked up a series of somewhat lukewarm endorsements from the state's major newspapers.

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In a heated, and at times personal, series of exchanges, four-term Senator Arlen Specter and challenger U.S. Rep. Joe Hoeffel took aim at one another's records on Saturday in the first of two televised debates.

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