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When Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White testifies at John Ashcroft's confirmation hearing this week, the winds of opposition will suddenly be funneled into a single human voice. White's 1999 nomination for a federal judgeship was famously torpedoed by Ashcroft, who charged that White, an African American, had "pro-criminal" tendencies. Exhibit A for Ashcroft: White's dissent in favor of a death-penalty defendant accused of murdering four people, including three police officers. Ashcroft's opponents charge (and Ashcroft denies) that his criticism of White was motivated in part by the nominee's race. Exhibit...
Later in the day, in the Science Center'slecture hall E, Mollway spoke about thefrustrations of undergoing a lengthy three-stepprocess twice before attaining her judgeship...
...expecting or requesting any major adjustment in their pay," he said, adding that a moderate increase is particularly important because most judges could be making significantly more money working as private attorneys. Federal judges last received a pay raise in 1993. Rehnquist, who earns a standard federal judgeship salary of $133,600 a year, argued that Congressional concerns about balancing the budget must not preclude a moderate increase for judges. Furthermore, he insisted that since the federal caseload is skyrocketing, more federal judges are needed to alleviate a seriously strained judicial system...
...female characters. The new story takes one of the supporting actors from the earlier books, a judge named Caroline Masters, and puts her at the center of what is more a soap opera than a mystery. The absurdly intricate plot has Caroline, who is up for a federal judgeship, called back to her ancestral manse in New Hampshire, a place she left in deep and unexplained bitterness when she was 22, to defend a niece who seems to have stabbed her boyfriend to death...
...they're both right -- Starr's credentials as a partisan are impeccable. Ronald Reagan appointed him to a judgeship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, where one of his major rulings was to strike down an affirmative-action hiring plan for fire fighters. George Bush named him U.S. Solicitor General, the government's lawyer in Supreme Court cases, a role in which he argued in favor of a flag-burning ban. In 1990 Starr was on Bush's short list for the Supreme Court. Starr has argued against President Clinton's request for temporary immunity...