George W. Bush and the Betrayal Of Trent Lott (views from a conservative student from Texas )

washingtondispatch ^ | 12/23/2002 | Cathryn Crawford

[TLBSHOW]

By special request.........

[TLBSHOW]

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[KayEyeDoubleDee]

I admire your efforts in this, I just don't agree with you.

[BuddhaBoy]

Still looking for a life, Todd?

GET OVER IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TLBSHOW]

new york times.....bs

Judicial Selection After Trent Lott

Now that Trent Lott has reminded the nation that ugly, antiquated racial attitudes still exist in this country, even in the highest ranks of government, the Bush administration needs to pay even more attention to civil rights concerns regarding several of its judicial nominees. It seems clearer than ever that the White House and the Senate should conduct a more rigorous review of current and future judicial nominees' records on race, and disqualify any whose commitment to equal rights is at all in doubt.

The administration has handed judicial selection over to the Republican Party's right wing. This has resulted in the naming of several judges whose views on race raise troubling questions. Michael McConnell, who won confirmation to the Colorado-based United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, had criticized a 1983 Supreme Court decision that denied tax-exempt status to Bob Jones University, which banned interracial dating by its students. Dennis Shedd, a former aide to Senator Strom Thurmond, was elevated to the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Virginia. This was despite civil rights groups' claims that as a trial judge he ruled against every employment discrimination plaintiff who appeared before him, and made insensitive remarks when he rejected a suit to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse.

Going forward, the White House and the Senate must raise the bar. There has been talk that the Bush administration may renominate Charles Pickering, a Trent Lott protégé, to the Louisiana-based Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Judge Pickering was rejected in March by the Senate Judiciary Committee, after concerns were raised about contacts he had, as a state legislator in the 1970's, with Mississippi's segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and his unusual efforts, as a trial judge, to persuade prosecutors to reduce the sentence of a man convicted of cross-burning. The White House should not renominate him.

The records of other nominees require close scrutiny. Carolyn Kuhl, whose nomination to the San Francisco-based Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is pending, helped as a young Justice Department lawyer to convince the attorney general to support Bob Jones University's bid to maintain its tax-exempt status. Senators should demand to know why.

Terrence Boyle, a former aide to Senator Jesse Helms who has been nominated for a seat on the Fourth Circuit, ruled against African-Americans in several important voting rights cases, and was reversed by the Supreme Court twice for doing so.

The lesson in Mr. Lott's demotion is that there is no place in government for anyone who has failed to grasp how pernicious this country's racial history has been. The White House and senators of both parties must work hard to ensure that no one who shares Mr. Lott's skepticism about the civil rights progress of the last 40 years is elevated to the most important judicial posts in the land.

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/22/opinion/22SUN1.html

[Commander8]

Check out this piece be John LeBoutilier
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/12/16/192223.shtml

[Sabertooth]

By special request.........

Next time you talk to yourself, don't listen.

[sinkspur]

This girl is right.

It's time, however, to give it up and move on.

[Right_in_Virginia]

If I make a very public mistake, I sure hope I have you in my corner ;^)

[BuddhaBoy]

Sad, isnt it?

The guy just doesnt know when to quit.

[TLBSHOW]

PUT A SOCK IN IT BUDDHA BOY

[dogbyte12]

My great worry in ignoring our "special friend" TLB, is that he may turn out to be like Mel Gibson in conspiracy theory, and one of his whacky idea actually has merit.

Plus, he is darn entertaining.

[BuddhaBoy]

You need another obsession. This one has gone on far too long. Everyone knows how you feel. You are embarassing yourself. Isnt Ann Coulter still around?

[Fred Mertz]

The problem with that was the fact that Trent Lott never said anything about segregation.

The fact of the matter is that Bush back stabbed Lott. There is no denying that.

Of course Lott misspoke and had a political tin ear, so he deserved it all the bushbots will say.

[holyscroller]

I agree, eek. Lott has been a weak-kneed sister since he became senate majority/minority leader. The only thing he was ever good at was rolling over for the Rats. I'm one Conservative Christian who's delighted to see him go. Just wish it had been much sooner. Even if this new guy isn't everything we hoped for, he's got to be better than Chester.

[TLBSHOW]

I found this story earlier today and I find it telling that the kids get it but the republican party doesn't. You know the so called adults. I hope she has her mail turned off. LOL

[Reagan Man]

On this issue, Cathryn Crawford is right and 85% of FReepers are wrong.

[inkling]

I can see the honor in defending your viewpoint to the death. However, it's more than a little unseemly to still be defending a days-old corpse. C'mon, even Lott's hairpiece is starting to decompose. Let's move on already.

[Leclair10]

I guess I see the arguments here but Lott quite simply
did it to himself and going on BET made it even worse.
Democrats get what the deserve they kicked out a polarizing
senator and the Bush brought in a guy who takes care of
aids children in his spare time, way to go guys.