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- LETTERS, Page 8Lucas and the Law
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- President Bush's attempt to appoint William Lucas as Assistant
- Attorney General for Civil Rights was misguided (NATION, Aug. 14).
- As a black American, I find it deeply insulting that someone who
- has never tried a case or written a brief should be nominated for
- such a pivotal post. It is not enough to be black; the candidate
- should be the best-qualified person to be found.
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- Barbara J. Green
- Dorchester, Mass.
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- Shame on you for running down Lucas, who not only graduated
- from law school but who also has had a long career in the field of
- law enforcement as a police officer, an FBI agent and a sheriff.
- Have you forgotten that Chief Justice Earl Warren never sat as a
- judge on any bench before he joined the U.S. Supreme Court?
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- James Kurfess
- Bakersfield, Calif.