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And that means that the President-elect, who told TIME several weeks ago that the greatest misconception about him is that he is racially insensitive, is now defending a key nominee in a fight so fierce it may once again be hard to tell the difference between winning and losing...
At Bush's transition headquarters in Washington last week, where everyone was distracted by the spectacular self-destruction of Labor nominee Linda Chavez, aides were slow to notice that the Ashcroft nomination was taking on water. Republican Senators began to grumble about sloppy Bush teamwork; some friendly Democrats had praised...
It 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...
It's easy to see why Bush would hesitate to let the guy off the hook. Doing so would really tick off his right wing, which has held on to the prosecution of Clinton like a dog to a postman's leg. Pardoning Nixon ruined Gerald Ford's election chances...
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...