If there’s an uplifting aspect to Trent Lott’s nostalgic endorsement of Dixiecrat barbarism, it isn’t his strange apology, in which he pretended not to have said what he plainly did say. What gave cause for hope was the response of conservatives, whose fury obviously shook the Republican leader. After years of coddling the bigots in Read More
During his long political career, tough John Ashcroft has
rarely, if ever, spoken out on behalf of the rights of criminal
defendants. He carried out seven
executions as the governor of Missouri. In the Senate, he supported fewer
protections for death-row inmates as well as harsher penalties for juvenile
offenders. He opposes expanded treatment for Read More
As the United States Senate prepares to take up the
nomination of John Ashcroft for U.S. Attorney General, the unlamented specter
haunting its chamber is none other than Jefferson Davis. The long-deceased
president of the old Confederacy is regarded as a hero by the former Senator
from Missouri, whose praise of such figures-and whose links Read More
(1) In Which Your Correspondent Makes an Unseemly Approach to Supreme Impeachment Manager Henry Hyde Over Breakfast
Henry Hyde was not in a particularly good mood that morning at breakfast in the lobby of the Capitol Hill Hyatt Hotel, and I don’t think my approach made it any better. I know he wasn’t in a Read More
