[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3668]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          BILL CLINTON'S JUDICIAL APPOINTEES ARE SOFT ON CRIME

  (Mr. COOLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COOLEY. Mr. Speaker, Bill Clinton's judges are soft on crime.
  All of our antidrug and anticrime legislation is useless if Clinton's 
judges refuse to enforce the law.
  One of Clinton's nominees to the Federal bench--a Democrat fund-
raiser from Miami--didn't even know about the Supreme Court's 1995 
affirmative action decision.
  Another Clinton judge dismissed a defendant's confession and 75 
pounds of cocaine.
  Why?
  The judge ruled that police are corrupt, and that drug dealers should 
be allowed to run away.
  Bill Clinton has already appointed 25 percent of all Federal judges.
  If Clinton is elected again, he will have the chance to appoint up to 
50 of all Federal judges, as well as one, two, or three Supreme Court 
judges.
  Do the American people want President Clinton to appoint half the 
Federal judges?
  I hope not.
  I, for one, would rather see a Federal judiciary that cares about 
crime victims.

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