John Kerry said, if he's elected President, he would appoint honest judges and attorneys. Seems Kerry knows a crook when he sees one. As a freshman Senator, John Kerry voted against the confirmation of William Rehnquist as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Rehnquist, as many DUers know, is the head of the criminal division of the Bush Organized Crime Family.
JUST OUR BILLBy Dennis Roddy
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Saturday, December 02, 2000
Lito Pena is sure of his memory. Thirty-six years ago he, then a Democratic Party poll watcher, got into a shoving match with a Republican who had spent the opening hours of the 1964 election doing his damnedest to keep people from voting in south Phoenix.
"He was holding up minority voters because he knew they were going to vote Democratic," said Pena.
The guy called himself Bill. He knew the law and applied it with the precision of a swordsman. He sat at the table at the Bethune School, a polling place brimming with black citizens, and quizzed voters ad nauseam about where they were from, how long they'd lived there -- every question in the book. A passage of the Constitution was read and people who spoke broken English were ordered to interpret it to prove they had the language skills to vote.
By the time Pena arrived at Bethune, he said, the line to vote was four abreast and a block long. People were giving up and going home.
http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/20001202roddy.asp
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