(October 2, 2012) -- Even as the Senate Judiciary Committee, finally, on September 20, voted on William Baer’s nomination to head the Justice Department’s antitrust division, the 12-5 favorable tally came so late in the congressional session that he must wait until after the election before he gets a vote on the Senate floor—if then. And his nomination, which was submitted in February, ran into some unexplained, last-minute turbulence....