Honorable Senator Frist,
I add my voice to those who request that you spark off an investigation into the ‘memogate’ memo of April 2002. In this memo the NAACP lawyer on the Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Kennedy urged him to unlawfully delay the nomination of a conservative judge in order to influence the outcome of the University of Michigan Affirmative action case. The nominee was therefore delayed and the outcome of that very case was affected in the favor of the NAACP Lawyer as requested. It could not have been more convienient for the special interest group to order a delivery pizza.
The memo quotes “The thinking is that the current 6th Circuit will sustain the affirmative-action program, but if a new judge with conservative views is confirmed before the case is decided, that new judge will be able, under 6th Circuit rules, to review the case and vote on it”. This of course is the precise outcome of the issue where Tennessee Judge Julia S. Gibbons — the nominee in question — was not confirmed until after the panel upheld the University of Michigan Law School's racial-preferences program on a 5-4 vote. I would then like to echo the voice of Jeffrey Mazzella, director of the Center for Individual Freedom and demand as a citizen that an official inquiry be opened into the matter by the senate.
I hope you can understand my concern is that well intentioned conservatives trying to play nice will excuse the cynical and corrupt politics that would allow such jury tampering. Mr Kennedy should be immediately censored, and his extremist friends should be barred from the senate. Moreover, this memo contains other ‘strategic’ uses for judiciary committee usury in order to affect partisan outcomes by ‘pulling triggers’ on rhetorical events meant to use these sage proceedings for the advancement of a shameful agenda.
I know that your spokesman has stated they are ‘Not Familiar’ with this matter, now that you have been briefed I look forward to seeing the effects of this memo.
Sincerely,
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