Search the memos he wrote where he revealed himself to be a racist as well.
He outright blocked Bush’s judicial nominees BECAUSE they were Hispanic. He saw it as possibly helping the GOP so he denied these men appointment strictly on the basis of their ethnic heritage.
It’s in his own writing. He got flustered when someone found them on a public server accessible to government employees. But it doesn’t change what he wrote to activist groups.
And there was this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113612/posts
Kennedy Dodges Questions on Judicial ‘Memogate’
CNSNEWS.com ^ | 4/08/04 | Robert B. Bluey
U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) appeared flustered Wednesday when confronted with allegations that two of his former aides plotted to delay the confirmation of one of President Bush’s judicial nominees solely to influence a high-profile affirmative action case.
The former Kennedy aides — Olati Johnson, his judiciary counsel, and Melody Barnes, his chief counsel — were responsible for an April 17, 2002, memo that recommended Kennedy delay the confirmation process of Julia Smith Gibbons to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Individual Freedom.
Gibbons was eventually confirmed, but not until July 29, 2002, after the appeals court had already ruled on an affirmative action case involving law school students at the University of Michigan. The court issued its ruling May 14, 2002. That case and one involving undergraduate students at the University of Michigan were later appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
When CNSNews.com asked Kennedy about the allegations Wednesday, the senator stumbled over his words, shook his head and was quickly escorted from the room by his staff.
“No. I’m not gonna, uh, re, uh,” Kennedy muttered.
He also wouldn’t confirm or deny whether Johnson and Barnes were responsible for contents of the memo.
“No. No,” Kennedy said as he scurried for the door.
The senator, who was holding a press conference on pension relief for small businesses, was also asked whether he would condemn the idea of delaying a judge for the sole reason of influencing a court case. Kennedy didn’t respond.
The CFIF report, which fingers Johnson as the author of the April 17, 2002, memo, raises several ethical questions because of Johnson’s employment history.
Prior to joining Kennedy’s office, Johnson was assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which was a defendant-intervenor in one of the University of Michigan affirmative action cases. In that capacity, Johnson served as co-counsel.
According to the CFIF report, Johnson’s former boss, Elaine R. Jones, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, made a telephone request to Kennedy’s office asking that Gibbons’ confirmation to the 6th Circuit be delayed in order to prevent Gibbons from voting on the affirmative action cases.
The April 17, 2002, memo, on which Barnes apparently concurred, was the byproduct of that conversation, according to the CFIF report.
The memo spells out the rationale for delaying Gibbons’ confirmation: “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.”
But the memo also highlighted the ethical concerns that come with delaying a confirmation solely for the purpose of influencing a court decision