Payne Prevention.

Conservative judicial nominee James Payne, whom Salon's Will Evans outed as corrupt this past January, withdraws his name from contention for the bench...or has it withdrawn. "A Senate confirmation hearing for Payne that would have been likely to highlight the ethical problems...could have proved embarrassing to the Bush administration, Oklahoma's Republican senators James Inhofe and Tom Coburn -- who have backed Payne so far -- and the judge himself."