Zell Miller defends conservative judges

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45844-2003Nov15.html

Supporters of President Bush's conservative nominees have used the word "lynching" to describe the treatment of judicial candidates by liberal opponents. African American political and civic leaders say that equating a challenge to a judge's nomination with the kidnappings, atrocities and murders that black Americans faced during more than a half-century of lynchings is inappropriate

On the Senate floor Friday, Miller said that liberals who oppose Brown, a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, are upset because she is black, conservative and a woman. Liberals are essentially telling Brown, "Gal, you will be lynched" if she pursues her nomination, Miller said.

In a statement, Miller, a former governor of a state that was the scene of more lynchings than any other except Mississippi, said, "I think it sums up the situation accurately. The tragedy here does not lie in my floor speech. . . . The tragedy lies in what is happening in the United States Senate to this highly qualified conservative, African American jurist."

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1. But she's not highly qualified

The American Bar Association gave her their lowest approval rating, which means no one that voted thought she was highly qualified. Zell is trying to have it both ways-make it seem that Dems are racist for the black Repugs, while supporting judges who want to stop affirmative action, etc.

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2. Zig Zag Zell can go to hell(n/t)

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3. Zeller is a joke

I mean, come on. And he certainly isn't appealing to his racist base when he defends Ms. Rogers.