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To: Dr. Id who wrote (143985)	8/25/2004 11:18:39 AM
From: longnshort	of 281500

Edwards' filibuster Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards, who often talks of standing up for the little people, is under attack from a civil rights group for denying a confirmation vote for a black woman nominated to the second-highest court in the country. California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown was born to a sharecropping family in Alabama, where she overcame poverty, segregation and single-motherhood to work her way through college and law school. Click to learn more... Though Mr. Edwards often talks of the struggles of being born into the white middle-class family of a South Carolina textile-mill supervisor, he joins a group of about 45 Democrats that refuses to allow Justice Brown a final confirmation vote because they view her as "conservative." The Congress of Racial Equality — a civil rights group supporting Justice Brown — is creating a television ad in Mr. Edwards' home state of North Carolina urging Mr. Edwards to allow her a final up-or-down vote. "Judge Janice Rogers Brown is the daughter of sharecroppers and an American success story," a female announcer says in the ad. "For her remarkable work, she has been nominated to the federal bench. ... Tell John Edwards and Ted Kennedy to stop blocking the nomination of Judge Janice Rogers Brown." Said Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality: "It's John Edwards' timidity and cowardice in dealing with this question, it's the Democrats' filibustering tactics that could affect this campaign. We just want to let black Americans know what is happening within the Democratic Party."

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