"The law will not get in his way."

the aba doesn't issue a unanimously "unqualified" rating lightly... their credibility is simply too precious to squander, which makes this all the more damning...

The lawyer President Bush picked to replace a racially divisive nominee on a Southern appeals court would "turn back the clock" on civil rights, the American Bar Association charged yesterday.

Michael Wallace got a unanimous "not qualified" rating by the bar association after Bush tapped him in February to replace Charles Pickering on the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

If Wallace - a Clinton impeachment adviser to Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) and clerk to the late Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist - is confirmed, "it will be like 1965, not 2006," one lawyer told the bar association.

Wallace declined to comment yesterday, but a colleague called the charges "totally ridiculous."

His firm is full of black lawyers, and "if he was such a racist, he obviously wouldn't work here," partner Luther Munford, a Democrat, told the Daily News.

The killer rating was given after confidential interviews with 26 judges and 43 other lawyers and people who have known Wallace since childhood. The grim assessment was in testimony the bar association prepared for a postponed Senate hearing, officials said.

"The law will not get in his way," said a judge quoted in the report by lawyer Kim Askew.

that last statement is a stunner, but i'm sure the aba report won't get in the way of wallace's confirmation by the gang of poodles in the senate... hang on... that's a terrible injustice to poodles... poodles are really a very intelligent breed, assuming the brains haven't been bred out of 'em... let's say sheep, ok...? yeah, sheep...

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