Posted on 10/24/2005 5:56:40 AM PDT by aceintx
Another skeleton Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers was deeply involved in an American Bar Association scheme that forces lawyers to pool their clients' funds into checking accounts and pass on the interest to "public interest" law firms, Evan Gahr reports at www.chimpstein.com. The program, known as Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts, or IOLTA, was intended to provide legal services to the poor but often ends up promoting left-wing causes, Mr. Gahr said. IOLTA has helped fund "a panoply of left-wing advocates, including a California group that sued to overturn the state's parental consent law for abortion, a gay organization that tried to force the organizers of St. Patrick's Day Parade in Boston to include a contingent of gay marchers, and a Texas outfit that sued to disqualify military absentee ballots," he writes. Mr. Gahr added: "Now, Chimpstein.com has discovered an obscure report which places Miers at the forefront of the American Bar Association's successful effort to foist IOLTA on the nation. This is the smoking gun which at least one conservative group tried to locate and failed." Law professor Charles Rounds, who opposed the scheme, said, "IOLTA is a program, created by state supreme courts or state legislation, whereby lawyers pool client funds -- small sums and large sums held for short periods of time -- into a designated interest-bearing checking account. The interest that is generated on those pooled funds is then funneled through a judicially created legal foundation to various 'public interest' legal firms." Miss Miers in the 1990s served on the American Bar Association's Consortium on Legal Services and the Public, which pushed the idea, Mr. Gahr said.
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"The best I have been called during the Miers thing is "dumbass"... It sort of fits but the other names were bad."
ROFLMAO
Me to!
The U.S. Senate is a dull nail file compared with how she is getting savaged in the media.
ping
The Senate is bending over backwards to see her confirmed.
We'll see how well the Specter magic works in the coming weeks I suppose.
A suggestion.
cant do it right now
After Elder Bush got caught reading his own lips and fobbed the New World Order off on us, we should never have trusted Junior.
So she puts out a tray of doughnuts marked "for public interest law firms." Conservaties, whose lawyers would apparently rather sit back than walk over to that table and eat, also sit back and complain.
Dont Bother Steller,
Sink, cynicom, Maynerd & Dane have been in hiding since last night!
I vote we not allow any ketchup for the Bushbots to eat their crow with this week.
uhh cynicom is posting right now
Also, if these accounts are interest-bearing, who pays the taxes on the interest? a) The client who never sees the interest, b) the lawyers who are forced to send the money in and don't see the interest, or c) no one, since the interest is credited to an exempt "non-profit" organization. But if so, how could the transfer of the pricipal INTO the non-profit's control and then back OUT of the non-profit not be illegal? Surely the "account" has to contain the principal in order to earn interest on the principal?
What does the IRS think of this?
If you had your way, there wouldn't be any ketchup in those dispensers anyhow. It would be Miers' and Dubya's mingled blood.
Very good insight...Miers and such of her ilk would have come up with some loophole to cover their tracks.
I think it's possible you're sexist!
Proof is in the pudding...Bush is on his way out, wanted to lay yet one more on conservatives and he got caught.
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