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...cover picture of Ashcroft was a low blow. He shouldn't be Attorney General, but neither should he be demonized. You made him look like a Method actor playing the villain Iago in Shakespeare's Othello. CARL A. KERR Glenville, W.Va...
...Attorney General has great power in determining who will serve as federal judges and how strongly laws are enforced. It is for this reason that Bush's nomination of the rigidly conservative Ashcroft is so troubling to environmentalists, labor, people of color, gays and lesbians, those who believe in religious freedom and all who support a woman's right to choose. ELLIE DUFFIELD Seattle...
...anyone say with a straight face that Janet Reno was more qualified than Ashcroft to be Attorney General? Or that she is not further to the left than Ashcroft is to the right? If it was all right for Bill Clinton to appoint someone consistent with his views, why can't Bush? DONALD RANFT Hershey...
...much integrity does Ashcroft have if he is willing to put aside his strongly held beliefs for his ambition? He says he will enforce the law rather than his beliefs. Does ambition then dampen his integrity, or will he work with one hand to follow the rules and with the other to overturn them? Women's reproductive rights are under renewed attack. I fear zealots in any form. This nomination convinces me that Bush is not concerned with conciliation. PAT LINDSAY Mattoon...
...Federal courts and the Justice Department are arbiters for many diverse ethnic groups who seek intervention for social injustice. Even if Ashcroft's heart is pure, his failure to implement voluntary busing of schoolchildren as part of a Missouri desegregation program showed racial insensitivity. FARIBORZ MOHAMADI Lake Forest, Ill. A Bleak St. Petersburg