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Last week, by killing Judge Charles Pickering??s nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Daschle and his sidekick, Judiciary Committee Chair Pat Leahy, proved themselves to be this nation’s most politically powerful adolescents. And as though indicating that such childishness would be rewarded in kind, Trent Lott announced his own plan to block the nomination of a former Daschle aide to the Federal Communications Commission...
...partisan vote that ended Pickering??s nomination was juvenile in that Democrats behaved like a pack of schoolyard bullies. Instead of giving Pickering a fair hearing, they ganged up to vilify him as “racist”—a charge entirely unsubstantiated by his judicial record...
...abortion idealogue to come before the Judiciary Comittee, has a history of opposition to women’s rights: As a state senator, he voted for a resolution calling for a constitutional convention to propose an amendment to ban abortion and voted against state funding for family planning programs. Pickering??s nomination was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday, but his nomination is an indication of the type of judge Bush may later attempt to appoint to the Supreme Court. Secondly, Bush’s proposed budget is unequivocally hostile to reproductive rights. Bush included $33 million...