Clinton Judgeship Nominee Withdraws
Handing presidential hopeful Bob Dole a political victory, President Clinton on Thursday abandoned his drive to put a Florida Democratic fund-raiser on the appellate court bench.
Attorney Charles “Bud” Stack, who raised $10 million for Clinton and other Democrats in 1992, asked the White House to withdraw his nomination for a seat on the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals after it became the center of Dole’s quest to portray Clinton’s judicial nominees as political cronies and liberals.
“I’m not going to get involved in the political discussions. I have advised the president that I have withdrawn my nomination and basically I pointed out in my letter the reasons,” Stack told the Associated Press.
Stack said his decision was based on his own reading of the political climate in the Senate.
“This is absolutely of my own volition,” he said. “The White House did not ask me to do this. I’ve weighed all of the possibilities and there was no way it was going to get through,” he added.
Stack, 62, is a Miami attorney who specializes in personal injury and product liability cases.
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