Rove Resurfaces (speak to Federalist Society), Libby's Defense Trust Set

Rove Resurfaces, Libby's Defense Trust Set

WASHINGTON - Still under criminal investigation in the CIA leak probe, Karl Rove will be one of the leading speakers this week at the Federalist Society's annual convention, an influential group of conservative legal talent.

Rove will surface as the Thursday night banquet speaker, raising a public profile that had been reduced in the weeks following his fourth round of grand jury testimony on Oct. 14. The president's top political adviser did not accompany Bush on his just-completed trip to South America.

Rove was not indicted in the leak of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. His former White House colleague, I. Lewis Libby, was indicted in the probe, and a defense fund is being set up for him.

A person close to the Libby camp said "a lot of friends and colleagues are coming together to help" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. Libby is charged with perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051109/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation

at bush?

of course the money boys have been suckered before by repubs.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/chinamart.htm

Which they will, of course.

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Others on President Bush's reputed short list include Federalist Society members John Roberts and Michael McConnell, both appellate court justices. Still others on the list have addressed the group, including appellate Judges J. Harvie Wilkinson, Emilio Garza, Edith Hollan Jones and Samuel Alito, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

While the society has no formal role in consulting with the White House, "the reality is, given the presence of Federalist Society members within the White House counsel's office and the Bush administration, they are playing a crucial role in selecting judges and likely justices," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a liberal Duke University law professor who has addressed the group.

Georgetown University law professor Mark Tushnet wrote in his book, "A Court Divided," that Federalist Society conferences serve as "something like the out-of-town preview of a Broadway show, where ambitious conservative lawyers strut their stuff."

"Appearing at Federalist Society events is one, perhaps the most important, of the ways in which a person who wants to get known as 'reliable' and promotable makes sure that his/her name gets put on 'the list'," Tushnet said in an interview.
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