Pursuing the same question, can the Senator ever recall a Hispanic nominee suggested by President Clinton, when he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Hispanic nominee for the Federal judiciary who received a well-qualified rating in which the Senator, then-chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, refused to even give that nominee a hearing?
Questioning the lack of hearings for Hispanic judicial nominees during a Senate Judiciary Committee discussion.
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