Richard Nixon (tapes) on judicial nominations

[Hawaii Hiker]

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2013/08/on-tape-richard-nixon-talks-judicial-nominations.html#comments

"Nixon discusses future judicial nominations during a July 12, 1973 conversation with chief of staff Al Haig, according to the five reporters who reviewed the tapes. Nixon insisted on finding "meanest right-wing" nominees and says, "No Jews. Is that clear? We've got enough Jews. Now if you find some Jew that I think is great, put him on there."

Actually finding the meanest right wing nominees is something Repub presidents after Nixon have been good at...See: Robert Bork, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas...On the Circuit Court level see Janice Rogers Brown, Edith Jones, Priscilla Owen, etc...

[radicalliberal]

1. Not at all surprising.

But surely the Republican Party has no white racists among their members. After all, they're the party of Lincoln!