Trent Lott's daughter attends Klan rally.

[Homebrew]

*Originally posted by astro *
**I love their editorial cartoon about it though **

The link has moved:

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/editorial/ramsey/021215.html

Here’s another good one at Lott’s expense:

http://www.clarionledger.com/news/editorial/ramsey/021213.html

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Okay, the Straight Dope.

Press conference, Pascagoula, Mississippi, 12/13.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/13/lott.comment/index.html

Lott apologizes anew for comments
GOP leader asks for forgiveness

Saturday, December 14, 2002 Posted: 1:49 PM EST (1849 GMT)

PASCAGOULA, MISSISSIPPI (CNN) – Fighting for his political life, Republican Senate leader Trent Lott went before the cameras Friday and offered a public mea culpa for comments that appeared to endorse segregation.

“I apologize for opening old wounds and hurting many Americans who feel so deeply in this area,” Lott said in a news conference in his hometown. He asked people to “find it in their heart” to forgive him and vowed to work with black leaders to make amends.

“Segregation is a stain on our nation’s soul,” Lott said. “There’s no other way to describe it. It represents one of the lowest moments in our nation’s history and we can never forget that.”

< snip >

The news conference marks Lott’s fourth attempt to settle the controversy, which comes as Republicans are set to regain control of the Senate in January.

Lott issued two print statements earlier this week, seeking either to explain the comments or apologize for them, and, on Wednesday he gave a round of phone interviews – but did not appear in person until Friday.

His daughter’s presence at this press conference is not mentioned, nor is the fuckknuckle’s. That’s because they weren’t there–they were in Jackson, with Ron Bonjean.

From the fuckknuckle’s press release:

Asked if he would be attending a press conference called by Lott in Pascagoula later that day, Barrett said that he would not…

So all this thing in Jackson was, was Bonjean issuing a statement to reporters–Lott wasn’t even there, apparently.

Minty:
**The involvement of Lott’s daughter is rather less than clear in this, and I can’t imagine that she would be crazy enough to show up with this gatecrasher to criticize her father as being too soft on the darkies.

**Good for you, Minty. Yeah, it looks to me like Tyler probably was there, but not because a fuckknuckle white nationalist invited her–she was there to fly the flag for the family, since Daddy had to be in Pascagoula for the real press conference.

And BTW, the Jackson press conference didn’t make GoogleNews at all. The big story was in Pascagoula.

http://www.gulflive.com/mississippi/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/news/1039864526179040.xml

Nation’s journalists converge on city
12/14/02
By MARTIN BARTLETT

PASCAGOULA – In addition to dozens of supporters, critics and at least one protester, U.S. Sen. Trent Lott’s press conference Friday drew journalists from around the nation.

Television stations from Biloxi, Mobile, New Orleans, Jackson and Baton Rouge as well as The Washington Post, TIME magazine and national television news networks covered Lott’s remarks.
There were so many microphones placed on the podium that officials had to remove the original podium and bring in a larger one.

Poor Fuckknuckle–always a bridesmaid, never a bride…

And, from his press release:

Barrett’s Open Letter to Trent Lott, urging the Senator to resist his foes and not apologize, received national news’ coverage the previous day.

Must be some other nation…

*Your search - Barrett Open Letter to Trent Lott - did not match any documents.

• …on some other planet…

Like this one…
http://www.nationalist.org/alt/2002/dec/lott.html

I am distressed that after proudly “standing up for Mississippi” and the values, heritage and people of our state, by stating that we proudly voted for Strom Thurmond in 1948, you have opted to embarrass Mississippi by “recanting” in favor of the Northeast leftist establishment. Neither you nor Mississippi owes anything to the Kennedy clan…

And, Minty, you wanna address this interesting tidbit?

Negro-gerrymandered voting districts, resulting in minority-rule and despotism (which I am challenging in behalf of Mississippians on this very day in the United States Supreme Court, by the way). [bolding mine]

Is he totally whack?

The reason that you have been elected is because you have been a segregationist, pitted against integrationists in your various elections. Now is not the time to sound a wavering trumpet. Democracy, Americanism, patriotism, freedom and majority-rule are all noble causes from which there should be no retreat.

Yep, looks like it.

So y’all can go back to talking about tits, I guess.

[minty_green]

Yep, he’s crazy. Don’t worry, the Supreme Court gets more than its fair share of nutjobs filing petitions. They’ll turn him away with all the rest of 'em.

[minty_green]

FWIW, I cannot find Richard Barrett’s name anywhere on the Supreme Court’s docket. Maybe he filed an amicus brief in some other case.

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Oh for heaven’s sakes. :rolleyes: Of course he’s got it on the website, I should have checked there first, but I assumed it was something obvious and you’d say, “Oh, yeah, that’s the blah blah blah thing.”

http://www.nationalist.org/news/releases/2002/admits.html

August 27, 2002

Negro voting districts challenged
Amicus curiae seeks to end minority racial-gerrymandering

  The United States Supreme Court has admitted Nationalists, who oppose creation of Negro voting-districts, to a crucial Mississippi re-districting case...

So, what-all does that mean, exactly? How involved is he? What does “amicus curiae” mean? I can look it up on Google, but in real life, how vital is Richard Barrett Esquire’s participation in the case? Are the Nationalists really central to the case, or is he just blowing smoke? He makes it sound like “Supreme Court admits Nationalists” is really earth-shattering.

[Captain_Amazing]

*Originally posted by Duck Duck Goose *
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So, what-all does that mean, exactly? How involved is he? What does “amicus curiae” mean? **

It means “Friend of the Court” An individual or group can file documents supporting one side or another in a pending Supreme Court case. It’s just a way for Justices to hear other perspectives on the case that the two parties directly involved might not bring up, inform them on technical matters they might not be aware of, etc. Permission to file amicus briefs are pretty regularly granted, so it’s not that big a deal that they filed.

[minty_green]

Bingo. Any schmuck can file a friend of the court brief. Pretty much the only way the court ever denies permission to file is if the party’s participation would create a conflict of interest with one or more of the judges. The judges will certainly pay attention to serious briefs–groups like the ACLU and the Federalist Society file them all the time–but won’t give two flips about Barrett’s spewings.

(Actually, down here in Texas, we have a neat little procedure to avoid the conflict-by-amicus problem. Under the Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure, the clerk of the court may receive, but may not file, an amicus brief. That way, it ends up in the court’s possession, but never becomes part of the case. I thought that was pretty cool when I figured it out.)