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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (173967)	8/23/2001 11:15:51 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

I could provide scores of examples of Helms' racist actions, but here's just one. Story is a year and a half old but still applicable. **************************************************** Headline: No blacks on 4th Circuit; Helms, racism blamed Jan. 18, 2000 By Larry Bivins Gannett News Service WASHINGTON - In his efforts to integrate the nation's federal judicial system, President Clinton has found the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals a tough case to crack. Although the 4th Circuit, which covers Maryland, North and South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, has the largest concentration of African Americans - 22 percent - of any circuit in the nation, it never has had a black judge on the court of appeals. Clinton has nominated four blacks to serve on the 15-member panel of appellate judges. All have languished in confirmation limbo. Clinton's first pick, James Beatty Jr., a black district-court judge in North Carolina, waited three years for a confirmation vote before his nomination was withdrawn. Clinton's current nominee, James Wynn, a North Carolina state-appellate judge, has been waiting since August. Judicial-appointment experts and black leaders say Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., and former Sen. Lauch Faircloth, another North Carolina Republican, have been the main obstacles to putting a black judge on the bench. Helms has not signed off on any Clinton nominees, and neither did Faircloth. Critics say race is a factor. "I think he would love to either retire or die saying he never allowed a person of color to get on that bench," said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus. Helms' office did not return numerous calls for comment.