THE BEST article on judicial appointments I have found [View All]

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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_564_01.html

THE MAKING OF THE CORPORATE JUDICIARY
And look where the trail leads...

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Pryor was not the pioneer of this kind of fundraising. The strategy of using vast amounts of campaign cash to shift the legal landscape was developed a decade earlier by a talented young Republican direct-mail consultant from Texas -- Karl Rove. Long before he took on the moniker of "Bush's brain," Rove realized he could energize the legal and medical establishments by targeting the once-sleepy Texas Supreme Court elections. "Karl has always had the requisite skills, but the proving ground came in the late 1980s and early 1990s," said Kim Ross, a former chief lobbyist for the Texas Medical Association, who worked closely with Rove. "Karl was talking about how business and medicine had to pull this together on the tort thing."

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