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The screening process is not that narrowly focused, protests Grover ("Rocky") Rees III, who is Meese's special assistant for judicial selection. "We don't have any litmus test." Perhaps not, but the checking procedure has derailed the nomination of the Justice Department's own Deputy Solicitor General, Andrew Frey...
Administration officials admit that they have been indulging at least one prejudice. "There is a conscious attempt," says Rees, "to avoid appointing people who will be on the bench only a few years." Typically, too, appointees are male and white. Only four of Reagan's judges are black, eleven Hispanic...
"Some of our critics do have litmus tests," complains Rees angrily. "They say that no matter how well qualified a candidate is, he can't be a judge if he shares President Reagan's opinion of abortion or affirmative action." The escalation of partisan infighting has begun to worry close...
With a book deal, a blank check from the editors of Rolling Stone to write whatever he wants, and a political mind to rival Jon Stewart’s, Rees can most definitely count himself among the elite of the underground humor world. His strips, though somewhat tired in their...
No matter where he goes from here, Rees has already left his mark on the political humor genre, pushing its boundaries further than anyone before him, and ridiculing his targets with a poison unmatched by any of his competitors.