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When Noel Hillman, head of the corruption probe surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff, stepped down last week after President Bush nominated him for a federal judgeship in New Jersey, some couldn't help wondering whether the appointment's timing was just coincidence or the calculated removal of an aggressive prosecutor from an explosive case. Sources at the Justice Department tell TIME it's the former--the nomination had been in the works for nearly a year. Hillman, chief of the Office of Public Integrity since 2003, says he asked to be replaced once the nomination was announced. "The chief of Public...
...while Coulter can occasionally be coarse--she's not one of those conservatives who won't say "f___" two or three times over dinner--she doesn't seem particularly uncomplicated. When I spoke with her friend Miguel Estrada, an attorney and onetime White House nominee for a judgeship (Estrada asked President Bush to withdraw his name in 2003 after a Democratic filibuster targeted Estrada's conservatism), he said Coulter's appeal 15 years ago, when they met, was "the same as it is today. She was lively and funny and engaging and boisterous and outrageous and a little...
Pryor said Friday that Moore, in defying a court order, had neglected the duties of his judgeship...
Pryor has been nominated by President George W. Bush to a judgeship on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and is currently being considered by the Senate. Senate Democrats are trying to block the nomination with a filibuster...
...granted on the initial scheduled trial date of September 2002 “at the last moment because of the illness of defense counsel’s wife.” The next delay was caused by the appointment of Byrne’s lawyer, Kenneth Fishman, to a judgeship in December 2002. Byrne remained without counsel—producing yet another postponement while he tried to find a lawyer—until this spring, when he retained Frank A. Libby Jr., who is still his lawyer. Neither Libby nor Fishman could be reached for comment...