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08-08-2002, 06:13 PM
American Bar Association Fights Liberal Label; Says Independent Nonpartisan Judge Reviews Will Continue Under Texan's Guidance (http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGASSZT3N4D.html)
By Gina Holland Associated Press Writer
Published: Aug 8, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Texan with ties to President Bush is taking over the American Bar Association's background checks of federal judicial nominees, an apparent effort by the lawyers' organization to show its reviews are nonpartisan.
Bush stunned the group last year by ending a 50-year White House tradition of using its members to assess the credentials of candidates for federal judgeships. In spite of that decision, the ABA, which has long fought off a liberal label, continued scrutinizing judicial nominees and may be positioning to win back a role in the Bush administration.
ABA leaders told reporters Thursday that the group's review committee has given more top ratings to Bush's judicial choices than those picked by President Clinton or Bush's father.
They also introduced the next chairman of the committee, Houston attorney Carol Dinkins, who headed a Bush conservation task force when he was Texas governor, and was Bush's appointee on the state parks commission.
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Dinkins, who was deputy attorney general in the Reagan administration, echoed Hirshon, saying, "We don't look at politics and we don't look at ideology." Selected by Carlton for the committee job, she begins that work next week.
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Of the 101 Bush nominees investigated so far, just one was determined unqualified: 35-year-old David Bunning, the son of Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. The Senate confirmed him in February.
Click here to read more (http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGASSZT3N4D.html)
By Gina Holland Associated Press Writer
Published: Aug 8, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) - A Texan with ties to President Bush is taking over the American Bar Association's background checks of federal judicial nominees, an apparent effort by the lawyers' organization to show its reviews are nonpartisan.
Bush stunned the group last year by ending a 50-year White House tradition of using its members to assess the credentials of candidates for federal judgeships. In spite of that decision, the ABA, which has long fought off a liberal label, continued scrutinizing judicial nominees and may be positioning to win back a role in the Bush administration.
ABA leaders told reporters Thursday that the group's review committee has given more top ratings to Bush's judicial choices than those picked by President Clinton or Bush's father.
They also introduced the next chairman of the committee, Houston attorney Carol Dinkins, who headed a Bush conservation task force when he was Texas governor, and was Bush's appointee on the state parks commission.
...
Dinkins, who was deputy attorney general in the Reagan administration, echoed Hirshon, saying, "We don't look at politics and we don't look at ideology." Selected by Carlton for the committee job, she begins that work next week.
...
Of the 101 Bush nominees investigated so far, just one was determined unqualified: 35-year-old David Bunning, the son of Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky. The Senate confirmed him in February.
Click here to read more (http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGASSZT3N4D.html)