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Article: Benching Bush's nominees. (Networks).(nomination of U.S. District Court Judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and others)(Brief Article)
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- The American Prospect
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- March 11, 2002
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WHAT DO YOU THINK OF a judge who's published fewer than 10 percent of his opinions? You might think that he's hiding something because his record reflects an unsuitable judicial temperament or extreme views on such subjects as race and reproductive choice. And according to those leading the opposition to the nomination of U.S. District Court Judge Charles Pickering to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, you'd be right.
Participants include the Alliance for Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, NARAL, the NAACP, and People for the American Way--a coalition reminiscent of the one that defeated Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork in 1987. For ...