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novapsycheNominee Rated 'Unqualified' By ABA Panel
A committee of the nation's largest lawyers organization yesterday unanimously rated President Bush's choice for a federal appeals court "unqualified," the first such vote in almost a quarter-century.
The 15-member Judicial Screening Committee of the American Bar Association found Michael B. Wallace, 55, a former aide to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), unfit to sit on the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
[...] "The president should immediately withdraw his nomination," Ralph G. Neas, president of the liberal organization People for the American Way, said yesterday.
But the White House stood by Wallace. "We disagree with the ABA and reject their rating," said Bush spokeswoman Erin E. Healy. "Mike Wallace is a well-respected attorney with extensive experience in constitutional and commercial law."
[...] The last nominee to be rejected unanimously by the ABA was Sherman Unger, who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1982. His nomination was later withdrawn.
A committee of the nation's largest lawyers organization yesterday unanimously rated President Bush's choice for a federal appeals court "unqualified," the first such vote in almost a quarter-century.
The 15-member Judicial Screening Committee of the American Bar Association found Michael B. Wallace, 55, a former aide to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), unfit to sit on the New Orleans-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
[...] "The president should immediately withdraw his nomination," Ralph G. Neas, president of the liberal organization People for the American Way, said yesterday.
But the White House stood by Wallace. "We disagree with the ABA and reject their rating," said Bush spokeswoman Erin E. Healy. "Mike Wallace is a well-respected attorney with extensive experience in constitutional and commercial law."
[...] The last nominee to be rejected unanimously by the ABA was Sherman Unger, who was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1982. His nomination was later withdrawn.
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Date: 2006-05-11 08:37 pm (UTC)Apparently not THAT well respected! Or, more to the point, respected by whom?
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Date: 2006-05-12 02:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-05-12 03:17 am (UTC)