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Politics : WHO IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT IN 2004
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To: American Spirit who wrote (848)1/11/2003 5:10:37 PM
From: Glenn Petersen  Read Replies (2) of 10965
 
As I have said earlier, let the nomination come to the floor, debate it and vote on it. Let the facts come out. If the man is not qualified for the position, I don't want him appointed anymore than you do. But I do want to hear all of the facts. Everyone has a spin. I don't know where you got the article that you just posted, but the spin in this article is significantly different from the WSJ. For starters, the article cites a different ringleader. There is no mention of the issue of proportionate sentencing. Who's right? Is the truth in the middle? Air it all out on the Senate floor. Is that so unreasonable?

The most serious issue raised by Pickering’s judicial record was his intervention at the 1994 trial of a man who was convicted as the ringleader of a cross-burning outside the home of an interracial couple. The attackers fired bullets into the couple’s home, endangering them and their two-year-old daughter.

Federal sentencing guidelines required a seven-year prison term for an assault involving arson, but Pickering opposed this as too severe, and met privately with the prosecutors to pressure them to drop the most serious charge and make a lighter sentence possible. In the course of this campaign, Pickering had highly unusual—and generally improper— ex parte communication with the Justice Department, and eventually succeeded in getting the racist attacker sentenced to only 27 months.
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