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It has been said that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. So it is with the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Certainly there is nothing civil about it.
Last year was a contentious one for the commission, and 2002 is shaping up to be just as controversial. The current dispute concerns Victoria Wilson's term of service, which was to expire Nov. 29 at the completion of what would have been the tenure of the late Judge Leon Higginbotham. The judge died in 1998 and President Clinton appointed Wilson to fill the remainder of his term. However, at the insistence of Clinton-appointed chairwoman Mary Frances Berry, Wilson is pioneering the idea that one can acquire "squatter's rights" to a presidential appointment, as Landmark Legal Foundation President Mark Levin put it. And never mind that the Bush administration had sworn a well-qualified new commissioner, Cleveland labor lawyer Peter Kirsanow, to fill what should have been a vacated position.
Kirsanow says he is "ready, willing and able" to perform his duties. But when the commission had its monthly meeting on Dec. 7, 2001, at which Kirsanow was to take his rightful place on the commission, he was prevented from presenting his credentials and repeatedly slighted as merely "a member of...
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