Race and civil rights have emerged as the flashpoints in the nomination of Mississippi’s Charles Pickering Sr. for a federal appeals judgeship, but they were not the only subjects of a grueling four-and-a-half hour Senate hearing last week.
On two occasions, senators raised issues of judicial ethics that may end up posing unexpected difficulties for Pickering, even though the more volatile questions are what prompted senators to screen Pickering for a second time.
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