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LETTERS, Page 8Lucas and the Law
President Bush's attempt to appoint William Lucas as Assistant
Attorney General for Civil Rights was misguided (NATION, Aug. 14).
As a black American, I find it deeply insulting that someone who
has never tried a case or written a brief should be nominated for
such a pivotal post. It is not enough to be black; the candidate
should be the best-qualified person to be found.
Barbara J. Green
Dorchester, Mass.
Shame on you for running down Lucas, who not only graduated
from law school but who also has had a long career in the field of
law enforcement as a police officer, an FBI agent and a sheriff.
Have you forgotten that Chief Justice Earl Warren never sat as a
judge on any bench before he joined the U.S. Supreme Court?
James Kurfess
Bakersfield, Calif.