By Steven Lubet
Legal Times
Virginia Thomas, the wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, recently published an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that expressed sympathy for Charles Pickering Sr., President Bush’s now-defeated nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. Drawing upon her experience during her husband’s stormy confirmation hearings, Thomas urged Judge Pickering not to take his rejection personally. “It helps,” she wrote, “to find your faith and be reminded that you are not called to be popular, but rather to have integrity.”
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