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President George W. Bush has chosen Mississippi attorney Mike Wallace to fill Judge Charles Pickering's seat on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Wallace is a known brilliant, qualified lawyer who has been an active conservative Republican, but who will put his political beliefs away when he becomes a judge - as judges ought to do. He will not be an activist; he will not legislate from the bench. But the liberals special interest groups are already preparing their smear campaign. And what, they wonder, is the best smear campaign for a conservative from Mississippi? Attack him on "civil rights" - a veiled charge of racism. Here they go again.