Two political insiders—a Democrat and a Republican—said Wednesday that Georgia's U.S. senators and the Office of White House Counsel are having "conversations" about filling the state's growing number of empty federal judicial posts.

Any dialogue between Republicans Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson and President Barack Obama's lawyers could be viewed as welcome news, given how federal judicial nominations in Georgia have stalled. But the two party insiders, along with other participants in a candid panel discussion over judicial nominations, illustrated just how politically polarized the process has become.

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