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Some questions: How can Gore be so sure his appointees will support Roe unless he uses a litmus test?
The whole context was Peter Jennings' question about whether Gore or Bradley would apply a "litmus test" to Joint Chiefs nominees like that occasionally applied, controversially, to Supreme Court nominees.
Gore said he had "rejected the notion of litmus tests on the Supreme Court by saying there are ways to find out the kind of judgment somebody has without posing specific litmus tests."
In the context of the Supreme Court, of course, "litmus test" clearly means an inquiry into a potential nominee's personal convictions--on, say, abortion or civil rights--prior to their nomination.
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