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WASHINGTON – Sandy Berger, the former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to charges of stealing classified material from the National Archives and lying to federal investigators, now faces an effort to disbar him in the nation's capital. Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates corruption in government, said today it has filed a formal bar complaint against Berger with the Office of Bar Counsel for the District of Columbia Bar. The rules of professional conduct for an attorney in the District of Columbia prohibit a lawyer from committing a criminal act that reflects adversely on trustworthiness; engaging in...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has said he will do what it takes to end the unconstitutional judicial filibusters. Why, then, has he allowed Senate lawyers to oppose a lawsuit that would accomplish this objective in court? On May 2, Judicial Watch filed an appeal in its landmark lawsuit against the United States Senate to stop the misapplication of the filibuster rule to the judicial confirmation process, Judicial Watch, Inc. v. The United States Senate, et. al. (Civil Action 03-1066, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia). A liberal minority in the Senate, for the first time in U.S....