"Some of my best friends are black."

[novapsyche]

W court pick called a foe of civil rights

The lawyer President Bush picked to replace a racially divisive nominee on a Southern appeals court would "turn back the clock" on civil rights, the American Bar Association charged yesterday.

Michael Wallace got a unanimous "not qualified" rating by the bar association after Bush tapped him in February to replace Charles Pickering on the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

If Wallace - a Clinton impeachment adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and clerk to the late Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist - is confirmed, "it will be like 1965, not 2006," one lawyer told the bar association.

Wallace declined to comment yesterday, but a colleague called the charges "totally ridiculous."

His firm is full of black lawyers, and "if he was such a racist, he obviously wouldn't work here," partner Luther Munford, a Democrat, told the Daily News.

Comments

[droid-1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but we really don't want anybody named Wallace on any southern courts.

[dionysus1999.livejournal.com]

This Mike Wallace:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Wallace_%28journalist%29

Might be a better pick for a judge.