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October 31, 2009

WAPO – House Ethics Committee looking into Carribean trip by Rep. Bennie Thompson and others

Ethics panel eyes Caribbean trip taken by members of Congressional Black Caucus After receiving a referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics, the House ethics committee announced in June that it would create an investigative subcommittee to look into “officially connected travel in 2007 and 2008 that was sponsored, funded or organized by an organization…
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October 31, 2009

PETTUS – Analysis: No Single Route to Judgeships in Miss.

Analysis: No Single Route to Judgeships in Miss. Then there are the nontraditional routes to getting a judicial appointment. One way is to publicly criticize the governor. It seems counterintuitive, but it apparently works. An example of this came just this past week, when Barbour appointed Malcolm O. Harrison to fill a vacant circuit judgeship…