When looking at sites opposing Pickering's nomination, I came across Eleanor Smeal's Feminist Majority Foundation site. The site has a neat feature that allows you to send a pre-written e-mail to several senators. I used it, but changed some of the words. I am writing to thank you for attending the hearing on the nomination […]
In further researching the Pickering nomination, I came across an article by the Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page. Page is urging the Senate to vote down Pickering's nomination, apparently because, once again, he's a racist. But if Pickering is a racist, then he has to address one big incident in Pickering's history that would tend to […]
The Washington Post assails the treatment President Bush's latest nominee to the 5th District Court of Appeals. Judge Charles Pickering has been demagogued by Democratic senators as a racist, segregationist and anti-miscegenationist. The Post points out that the claims fo racism appear to be spurious, but while Pickering may not be a racist, he's a […]