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| News Date | Monday, May 9, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | JANICE Rogers Brown of the California Supreme Court has been the Bush nominee for a federal circuit court judgeship facing particularly fierce resistance by Democrats and their allies.
For example, the April 26 "Action Alert' from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People accuses her of "having extreme right- wing views,' issuing "many opinions hostile to civil rights.'
I do not agree with all of Justice Brown's opinions, but I write this to show how prejudicially selective the prosecution of her is by the Democrats, the NAACP, People for the American Way and her other critics.
She was filibustered in the last Congress, and may be again, now having been sent to the floor on a 10-to-8 party-line vote by the Judiciary Committee.
To my knowledge, not one of her attackers has mentioned the fact that in the case of People v. McKay (2002), Brown was the only California Supreme Court justice to instruct her colleagues on the different standards some police use when they search cars whose drivers are black: |
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