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June 6, 2007

Slate’s “Hitjob” on Southwick

Headed Southwick? As a judge on the Mississippi Court of Appeals for 12 years, Leslie Southwick participated in more than 7,000 cases. Now he is President Bush’s nominee for a long-vacant seat on the Fifth Circuit, one of the federal appeals courts. At Southwick’s confirmation hearing, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., asked him to give an…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
June 6, 2007

Taggart – Leslie Southwick, the NYT, and George Orwell

Leslie Southwick, the NYT, and George Orwell Taggart memo to Times editors: Whatever it was the voters were doing last November, they manifestly were not saying to the Senate that, after he had survived a year in a combat zone, Judge Southwick should be subject to serial, nationwide attacks on his character and sent packing.…