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...Morrissey Disendorsed...
...reported [Oct. 8] that Judge Morrissey's nomination to the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts had been approved by the American Trial Lawyers Association. Your reporter was misinformed. Judge Morrissey's qualifications never have been reviewed by our committee on the judiciary. The approval of Judge Morrissey by one of our members, speaking for himself and not for this association, was misconstrued as constituting an endorsement by the association. Such was not the case...
...Morrissey contends that he did not falsely represent his residence to officials in Georgia and remained in that state from June 1993 to March 1934. Yet, on September 2--only six months after Morrissey returned to Boston--official records show that he unsuccessfully ran in Boston's Second District for a seat in the Massachusetts State Legislature. Since the state constitution requires that a candidate have a year's residence in a district he seeks to represent, Morrissey would have been disqualified if his Georgia residence was in fact legitimate...
...Either Morrissey did not consider himself a resident of Georgia, and therefore illegally gained the right to practice; or, he was indeed a rseident of Georgia and therefore illegally entered the September 2 primary. His action in either case--and his recent attempt to conceal the Georgia episode--shows him unfit for the federal judiciary...
...hope the Senate will not feel bound by the recommendation of the Judiciary Committee, and that it will refuse to confirm Morrissey's nomination...