Word: bobbed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...John Ashcroft ATTORNEY GENERAL He led the fight against a respected black nominee to the federal bench. He's staunchly pro-life. That honorary degree from Bob Jones University isn't going to help...
...makes liberal toes curl. Yet as he reached Senate Democrats like Russ Feingold and his old Yale classmate Joe Lieberman, he was able to elicit warm responses, or at least pledges of neutrality. Feingold called him a "respected public servant with a fine legal mind." New Jersey Democrat Bob Torricelli called him "a very good choice," praised his "sound judgment and high integrity" and said he favored his confirmation...
...federal court. They dispute the charge that Ashcroft is a racist, noting that as Missouri Governor he appointed the first African-American judge to the court of appeals and signed into law the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. But he also accepted an honorary degree in 1999 from Bob Jones University, which until recently forbade interracial dating, and defended Confederate leaders as "patriots" in Southern Partisan magazine, a pro-Confederacy publication that he praised for helping "set the record straight...
...Separation of church and state Ashcroft's visits to Bob Jones University (where he has received an honorary degree), his personal associations with evangelical leaders like Pat Robertson and his support of public funding for "faith-based" charity work leads many civil liberties groups to worry about an influx of so-called "Christian" ideology into public life...
...general: Abortion-rights activists, minority groups, feminists, labor unions and environmentalists are already bombarding congressional offices with information designed to destroy Ashcroft's nomination. The former senator is under fire for his pro-life views, his efforts to derail judicial appointments of blacks and women and his affiliation with Bob Jones University, where he received an honorary degree. The liberals' antipathy, of course, is enough to solidify fervent support for Ashcroft among conservatives, who see him as an example of the upstanding and morally sound leadership they believe was so notably absent during the eight long years of the Clinton...