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...talk with TIME correspondent Michael Weisskopf about the Ashcroft story, go to AOL live on Wednesday...
When John Ashcroft faces his former Senate colleagues, the Judiciary Committee's Democrats will come armed with his past. Liberal groups have been kind enough to send them every detail of his record. Their No. 1 concern--like that of many Americans polled by TIME/CNN--is whether he will enforce laws he doesn't agree with. Here's a preview of what the Democrats will grill...
...granted a retrial. Even beyond that case, the Republicans are prepared to argue that White was unfit for the federal bench; they are threatening to dredge up his law-school grades, his bar exam, his record as a lawyer and even details of his family life to prove Ashcroft was right about White. "People who knew about Ronnie White were willing to leave a lot of this alone," says an Ashcroft ally, "but now that's not going to be possible." But Republicans are also lining up counterarguments to the civil rights assault. Ashcroft, they point out as an example...
...could be that Ashcroft's fate will turn on how many Democratic Senators want to teach the nominee a lesson about fair play and equal justice. White was by no means the only judge Ashcroft tripped up; Ashcroft was notorious for blocking all kinds of appointments, from the openly gay ambassadorial nominee James Hormel to Susan Oki Mollway, the first Asian-American woman to serve on the federal bench in Hawaii. In Hormel's case, Ashcroft's objections had nothing to do with his qualifications and everything to do with his lifestyle. Ashcroft would refuse even to meet with judicial...
Only a few Senators will talk about it openly, but the feeling runs strong among Democrats that what was good for their nominees may now be good for Ashcroft--even if he is ultimately confirmed. Senators traditionally respect a President's right to pick people who share his views; but, Democrats charge, that was one tradition Ashcroft did not honor himself. "Many of the pleas for fairness that will be made at his hearing were the same pleas that we made of him during the past few years when it came to judicial nominees," Durbin says. "You can understand...