BUSH NOMINATES JUDGE WHO PRACTICED LAW WITHOUT A LICENSE

These people don't vett their judicial appointments any better than they vett their intelligence:

"A lawyer who specializes in legal ethics said Griffith's two licensing lapses should disqualify him from a lifetime appointment to one of the nation's most important federal benches, second only to the Supreme Court.

'This moves it for me from the realm of negligence to the realm of willfulness,' said Mark Foster, a Zuckerman Spaeder attorney who represents lawyers in ethics matters. 'People who thumb their noses at the rules of the bar shouldn't be judges.' "