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  • Another skeleton, (In Miers Closet)

    10/24/2005 5:56:40 AM PDT · by aceintx · 221 replies · 3,694+ views
    The Washington Times, Inside Politics ^ | October 24, 2005 | By Greg Pierce
    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...