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MEMORANDUM To: Journalists
From: Ralph G. Neas, president
Re: Hearing Strengthens Case Against Judge Charles Pickering's Confirmation; Testimony Highlights Problems with Nominee's Record as Judge and State Senator
Introduction
On Feb. 7, 2002, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a second hearing on the nomination of District Court Judge Charles Pickering to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. His first hearing was conducted in October 2001 when the Senate Judiciary Committee had not yet been given access to any of what Pickering estimated to be approximately 1,000 unpublished decisions (of the approximately 1,100 decisions he has issued as a judge). Scores of those opinions were made available to the Judiciary Committee literally on the eve of the Feb. 7 hearing. Another 200 were not provided to the Committee until the week after the hearing.