1.   And black lawyers expressed chagrin that Moynihan touted Sundram, a native of India, as the first-ever minority judicial nominee from the Albany region.

2.   And the fact is, tellingly, that minority judicial nominees in this Congress have been more than twice as unsuccessful as whites.

3.   Democrats have accused Republicans of being slow to approve female or minority nominees.

4.   But Democrats have hit hard on claims that the holdup on Paez, who is Hispanic, reflects a Republican tendency to be tougher on minority nominees.

5.   Democrats then were hitting the Republicans hard for causing delays in confirmation votes for minority nominees.

6.   That was more than any of his predecessors, but Clinton complained frequently that his minority nominees were shelved for purely political reasons.