Conservative nominees will face a difficult time before the committee.

The first confrontation could be over any of several conservative nominees.

Jenner and others had hoped to have a more conservative nominee for governor.

And my inclination was based on my support of conservative nominees to the Court.

"So the Bush administration is likely to be more successful than its predecessors in finding reliably conservative nominees."

As a result, some have privately vowed to battle any starkly conservative nominees.

They're going to send up wave after wave of conservative nominees.

Despite the opposition, McConnell, unlike so many other conservative nominees, was confirmed.

On the first point, Democratic senators have persisted in filibustering the president's most conservative nominees to federal appeals courts.

The senator in your novel, by a nice coincidence, is trying to block the nomination of a conservative nominee to the Supreme Court.