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Black judge's renomination urged 01/11/2003 Associated Press WASHINGTON - Two Missouri Democrats are asking President Bush to renominate the black judge who was the key witness for the opposition during Attorney General John Ashcroft's confirmation hearings. Reps. Dick Gephardt and William Lacy Clay asked the president to appoint Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which will have a vacancy in April. Judge White, nominated in 1997, was the first district court nominee turned down on the floor in four decades. Mr. Ashcroft, then a Missouri senator seeking re-election, called Judge White...