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Former CCA Top Lawyer Proposed by Bush to the Federal Bench Scrunitized by Senate Judiciary Cmte

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Thursday, Mar. 13, 2008 Scrutiny for a Bush Judicial Nominee By Adam Zagorin/Washington As the top lawyer for America's biggest private prison company, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), Gus Puryear IV, is known to sport well-pressed preppy pink shirts, and his brownish mop of hair stands out among most of President Bush's graying nominees to the federal bench. A favorite of G.O.P. hardliners, Puryear, 39, prepped Dick Cheney for the vice presidential debates ? both in 2000 and 2004 ? and served as a senior aide to two former senators and onetime presidential hopefuls, Bill Frist and Fred Thompson. Political connections, though, may not be enough to get Puryear a lifetime post as a federal district judge in Tennessee. Puryear recently confronted tough questions about his conduct, experience and potential conflicts of interest from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which must approve him before a full Senate vote...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 13, 2008 (boomark / email).