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To: combjelly who wrote (297059)	7/27/2006 5:38:35 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573718

I am sorry if the 2005 research is not current enough for you. If you think that is a generation you must breed and mature just a little slower than rabbits do. I am not surprised you didn't really read it, for the same reason I don't look for it to be repeated in the formerly MSM.

To: combjelly who wrote (297059)	7/27/2006 5:39:33 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573718

Partisan panel "Anyone who still clings to the fiction that the [American Bar Association] can be counted on to provide professional evaluations of judicial nominees without regard to politics should take a look at the current squabble over [Michael] Wallace, whom Mr. Bush has nominated for the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals," the Wall Street Journal says in an editorial, noting that in May an ABA panel rated Mr. Wallace as "unanimously not qualified" for the federal bench. "Mr. Wallace is a highly regarded attorney in private practice in Mississippi, where his nomination has bipartisan support," the Journal said. "He clerked for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist and in the early 1980s served as counsel to then-Congressman Trent Lott. In 1999, Mr. Lott hired him back as special counsel during President Clinton's impeachment trial. "That's not a professional background likely to endear the nominee to liberals. But here's the real disqualifier: During the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations, Mr. Wallace served on the board and then was chairman of the federally funded Legal Services Corporation, whose ostensible mission was to provide legal help for the poor but which was a haven for liberal legal activism. "Mr. Wallace's efforts to reform the LSC had many critics, among them an attorney by the name of Michael Greco. Another opponent was the then-president of the New Hampshire bar, Stephen Tober, who accused him of having a 'political agenda' at one particularly contentious hearing. Mr. Greco is now president of the ABA, and Mr. Tober is chairman of the ABA committee that nixed Mr. Wallace. Mr. Wallace's reforms were adopted, and now it's apparently payback time."