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Plagiarist named to D.D.C. by Bush

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

On September 9th, there is this post about plagiarizing an article being an ethical violation. Yesterday, we see in the NY Times that a plagiarist has been nominated by President Bush to the D.C. District Court. Ironically, he worked on the toughest judicial nominees for the White House. He blames it on negligent work habits. The Times article never uses the P-word, instead using "copying." How genteel. If it walks like a duck .... Are we afraid of a potential judicial nominee who might get confirmed? Prof. Deborah Rhode questions the bona fides of someone so accused to be a judge but it doesn't bother Sen. Arlen Specter, so sayeth the Times: Deborah L. Rhode, an authority on legal ethics at Stanford, said the retraction by the Supreme Court Economic Review was “extremely unusual” and amounted to “a textbook case of conduct that casts doubt on someone’s fitness for judicial office...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on July 05, 2008 (boomark / email).