Miguel, Ma BelleThe racial ugliness under Miguel Estrada's now-withdrawn nomination.

Miguel Estrada, President Bush's controversial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., withdrew his name from consideration this morning after a lengthy filibuster by Senate Democrats and an increasingly rancorous national debate about the role of judicial ideology in the confirmation process.

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Republican leaders have charged that in challenging Estrada, Democrats have torpedoed the possibility of a Hispanic being confirmed to the Supreme Court. Last February, Dahlia Lithwick reviewed the race politics lurking under the arguments of Estrada's supporters and detractors.

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