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But it isn't personal, Democrats said Sunday, while making clear they will not give him a pass to be come the next attorney general just because they think he’s a fine indi vidual. “Advise and consent doesn’t mean advise and rubber stamp,” said Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Judiciary Committee’s senior Democrat and temporary chair man. Democrats opposed to Ashcroft’s nomination say his conservative opinions are ill-suited to the job of being the nation’s top law enforcer. “Right now we need a healer in Washington, in the form of our president,” Sen. Barbara Boxer, D Calif., said on ABC’s “This Week.” Boxer, who has announced her in tention to vote against Ashcroft, said of him: “This is an extremist, not a healer.” Most Democrats were more cir cumspect than that, including Leahy. He called Ashcroft a “divi sive choice” by President-elect Bush, but disagreed with critics who have tried to paint the former Missouri senator as a racial or reli gious bigot. “I think all of us who know him, know that charge would not stick,” Leahy said on CNN’s “Late Edi tion” of either allegation. Ashcroft s confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Com mittee, where he once was a mem ber, begins Tuesday. Interest groups are piling on. On Sunday, the board of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers took what it called an un precedented step in voting to op pose Ashcroft. “Ashcroft’s legacy on criminal justice issues is demagoguery and opportunism,” said Edward Mai led, the group’s president. On Monday, Charles Evers, brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, sent letters of sup port for Ashcroft to members of the judiciary committee, saying allega tions of racism against him “are not supported by facts,” adding that the charges “seem to me to be nothing more than a political ploy to fan the flames of racial division in our country.” Evers, a former mayor of Fayette, Miss., was a Mississippi delegate to the 2000 GOP convention. Also on Monday, St. Louis attor ney and Ashcroft friend Charles Polk defended the former senator in remarks to reporters, saying Ashcroft would make “a fine attor ney general” for all Americans, re gardless of their race. Polk, who is black, dismissed critics’ allegations that Ashcroft is a racist. “That’s a joke — it really is a joke and it upsets me,” Polk said. Bush, in Texas for his last week end before Saturday’s swearing in, said Ashcroft will use the office to enforce the nation’s laws, not pro mote his own political opinions. “John’s a team player,” Bush told NBC News. “He will not politicize the attorney general’s of fice.” Democrats need both a united front and some Republican sup port to defeat any of Bush’s nomi nees. The Senate is evenly split, 5Q-J50,. but. .Vice President-elect Dick Cheney will cast any tie breaking votes in favor of the GOP. The main fight is forming over Ashcroft but opposition also exists to the nomination of Gale Norton for Interior secretary. Critics say her strong support of private prop erty rights and state jurisdiction are the wrong fit for a department that manages vast public lands. Ashcroft was the preoccupation on the Sunday talk shows as De mocrats sized him up as someone unfit for the post of attorney gener al. Republicans rallied behind him and Norton. The Senate tends to show defer ence to one of its own, and many Democrats concede a president should have latitude in picking his Cabinet, barring ethical problems of the nominee. But some said they could not countenance an attorney general who is sworn to enforce laws he opposes, such as abortion rights and affirmative action. And they had pressing questions about Ashcroft’s determined and successful effort to scuttle a black judge’s elevation to the federal bench. Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White is being called by Democrats to testify at the hear ing. “John Ashcroft gives me what you call cognitive dissonance,” lib eral Democratic Sen. Paul Well stone of Minnesota said on “Fox News Sunday.” “You know, how can a person that you enjoy and like sometimes have such harsh views?” He called Ashcroft a good friend. “But he’s going to be lawyer for all the people in the country, and I think there should be careful scrutiny.” Not all Democrats were con vinced Ashcroft’s positions or role in torpedoing White should stop him from getting the job. “I’m going to see if ... there’s anything to disqualify him,” said Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid, D-Nev. “At this stage, I don’t see anything.” Still, Reid said he was troubled by indications that Ashcroft’s op position to White might be rooted in a nearly decade-old legislative feud, not just divergent views on the death penalty. As a state lawmaker before he went to the Missouri Supreme Court, White sank anti-abortion legislation Ashcroft pushed as gov ernor. Reid wants to explore that rela tionship. “It appears that they’ve had a battle going on,” he said on Fox. “If that’s it, you can’t have these long-standing feuds if you’re the chief law enforcement officer in America.” The criminal defense lawyers said they were opposing Ashcroft because of his “ambush” of White, his criticism of using federal mon ey to treat drug abusers and his op position to a death penalty morato rium, among other grounds. Utah Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch, who will return as Judicia ry chairman once Bush takes of fice, said Ashcroft knows “there’s a difference between being an ad vocate ... and being the attorney general where you have to enforce the laws.” And he said Democrats were overreaching against a man who earned the respect and affection of plenty of them. “They know he’s a man of integrity,” Hatch said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
