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including Leahy and Massa- chu etts en. Edward Kennedy - ex- pres ed strong personal regard for Siegan but added that his views on the law were too ·out of the main- stream" for their liking. But Wyoming Republican Sen Alan Simpson, who voted to confirm Please ee. TEGA,-.:: A- , Col. 1

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WASHINGTON - Citing his lack of experience in the federal courts and his con ervative interpretat10n of the l . Constitut10n, the Senate Judiciary Committee today rejected an Diego law professor Bernard Siegan for a seat on the 9th ircuit CoiinofJ.ppeals. The committee, voting along party Imes, rejected Siegan s nomination to the federa I bench bv a vote of 8 to 6 and later turned down an attempt to send the nomination to the Senate floor without a recommendation. Siegan rejection came as no u ri e -to commi t m mber , the liberal lobb),ng roups that lobbied again t him or to official in the Reagan administration, who for months had encouraged Siegan to withdraw his name from considera- tion. "The handwriting's been on the wall for quite . ome time,'' said Ver- mont Democratic en. Patrick Leahy. '"The Committee knew it, the administration knew it and the nomi- nee knew it. "I wish (Stegan) could have been spared the pain of all of this."

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Contmu<>d From Page l Siegan, accused the ~om??ittee of trying to soften its reJection of the 63-year-old law professor on.1deolog- ical grounds by praising htm as a person. "l hope we don't shroud this in too much good will," Simpson. said. "We ought to just state this was a hammer job and he (Siegan) got it right in the chops." Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, offered the most spirited defense of Siegan, saying objections to his lack of expe- rience ignore "the whole raft" of _fed- eral court appointees who made 1t to the federal bench with little or no courtroom experience. Kennedy, who said he knew Sie~an personally, said, "There's no question about his integrity and character, but I strongly oppose his nomination." Kennedy, citing Siegan's lack of courtroom experience, said, "He has never conducted a jury trial and appeared only once in his career in federal court." Kennedy added that Siegan's belief that the Supreme Court should apply more scrutiny to economic regulation "deeply trou- bled" him. Finally, Kennedy said he disagreed with Siegan's view that the Supreme Court's ruling on Brown vs. !he Board of Education, the 1954 rulmg that "separate but equal" public schools violate the 14th Amend- ment's guarantee of equal protection, "is not based on original understand- ing. I S1egan has maintained that the case should have been decided on other grounds. -~~~~---. .L

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/ Clergyherr to select t Gt'-J new bishop Methodists hope to make selection at~rnorrow By Rita Gillmon Staff Writer

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One of six men who arrived in San Diego earlier this week as Methodist pastors · ~=w-~ bishop after United Methodists of the Western Jurisdiction Conference elect a replacement for a San Fran- cisco bishop who is retiring. Balloting began yesterday among the lay and clergy delegates from eight annual conferences (regional governing bodies) who will elect a leader for some part of the jurisdic- tion, which extends from Alaska to the Mexican border and from the Rockies to Hawaii. Meeting at the ·University of San _Diego, the United Metho(hsts hope to- have a seTection by tomorrow, but they will continue the balloting until one candidate wins a two-thirds ma- jority. That winner will take the place of Bishop Leontine T.C. Kelly, who has served in San Francisco since 1984. However, the new bishop will not necessarily he assigned to that par- ticular conference. Assignments for all the bishops in this jurisdiction will be announced later this week. The first black woman to become a bishop of the 9.1-million-member United Methodist Church, Kelly told delegates yesterday that the open- ness and diversity of the church in the West has so impressed her that she intends to continue her ministry in this area, rather than return to her home town of Washington, D.C. "Here on the Pacific Rim, the mis- sion field has come home to us and challenges us to he all that we have proclaimed to be," Kelly said. "There are ethnic minorities who have long been part of the church and have yet to be heard from." Kelly said the Korean church in America, for instance, is the fastest growing part of the denomination. "We need to talk to them and find out how they are doing it." The church needs to prioritize the needs of children, which she identi- fied as the fastest growing segment

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monds United Methodist Church in Washington; the Rev. William 0. Walker, pastor of First United Meth- odist Church of Eugene, Ore.; and .William W. Dew Jr., pastor of San Ramon Valley United Methodist Church in Alamo. Nominations also may be made from the floor. A consecration service for newly elected bishop will be held at the

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