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Democrats will not
easily pass Ashcroft
By Calvin Woodward
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — John
Ashcroft will soon be mingling
with his friends back in the Senate,
some of whom are ready to
pounce.
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.”