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04-25-2003, 02:36 PM
Spurned Clinton nominee wants judge's seat to go to GOP choice Pickering (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/04/25/national1512EDT0639.DTL)
<font size=1>JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer </font>
(04-25) 12:12 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
A Hispanic lawyer who was nominated to a federal appeals court by President Clinton but blocked by Republicans is urging Senate Democrats to confirm Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering to the same court despite accusations of racial insensitivity.
Texas lawyer Jorge Rangel called for the confirmation of Pickering, a U.S. District Court judge, for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an April letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
His appeal comes as Republicans prepare to step up pressure on Democrats to stop blocking President Bush's judicial nominations when the Senate resumes work Monday.
Rangel often is offered as an example by Democrats that Republicans used the same tactics when a Democrat was making the nominations.
Pickering's nomination to the New Orleans court was blocked last year by Democrats after fierce opposition by the NAACP and other groups criticizing his civil rights record. But Rangel, in a letter to the Judiciary Committee, said Pickering is "free from bias."
"The Charles W. Pickering that I have read about in press reports during the pendency of his current nomination does not comport with the Charles W. Pickering that I have come to know in the last 13 years," said Rangel, who sat on the American Bar Association review panel for Pickering's nomination to the District Court in 1990.
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<font size=1>JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer </font>
(04-25) 12:12 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --
A Hispanic lawyer who was nominated to a federal appeals court by President Clinton but blocked by Republicans is urging Senate Democrats to confirm Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering to the same court despite accusations of racial insensitivity.
Texas lawyer Jorge Rangel called for the confirmation of Pickering, a U.S. District Court judge, for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in an April letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
His appeal comes as Republicans prepare to step up pressure on Democrats to stop blocking President Bush's judicial nominations when the Senate resumes work Monday.
Rangel often is offered as an example by Democrats that Republicans used the same tactics when a Democrat was making the nominations.
Pickering's nomination to the New Orleans court was blocked last year by Democrats after fierce opposition by the NAACP and other groups criticizing his civil rights record. But Rangel, in a letter to the Judiciary Committee, said Pickering is "free from bias."
"The Charles W. Pickering that I have read about in press reports during the pendency of his current nomination does not comport with the Charles W. Pickering that I have come to know in the last 13 years," said Rangel, who sat on the American Bar Association review panel for Pickering's nomination to the District Court in 1990.
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