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Power to the Lawyers

Is Hillary Clinton as brilliant a politician as she's cracked up to be? Here's a bit of evidence for the negative: "Clinton Says Lawyers Must Make Their Voices Heard in Washington" reads the headline of an Associated Press dispatch about a speech New York's junior senator gave at the American Bar Association convention in Chicago. Lawyers need to speak up more: Now there's a message sure to strike a chord with the public.

One lawyer who seems to be taking Mrs. Clinton's exhortation seriously is Jeanine Pirro, district attorney of Westchester County, who, the New York Times reports, said today that she will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Clinton next year. Conventional wisdom has it that Clinton is unbeatable, but Pirro--whose attributes, according to the Times, include "tough talk, quick wit, and good looks"--is probably the Republicans' best shot.

The Times notes, though, that Pirro may have a problem: "the shadow that [her] husband, Albert J. Pirro Jr., has cast over her political career for nearly two decades":

Democrats say she is vulnerable to questions of judgment in her relationship with Mr. Pirro, who was convicted of income tax fraud in 2000 and served 11 months in prison.

The last time we saw Mrs. Clinton, she was wearing what did not appear to be a wedding ring. However, rumors persist that she, like Mrs. Pirro, is married--and who knows? Maybe it'll turn out that she is vulnerable to quesitons of judgment in her relationship with Mr. Clinton.
(Thanks to Best of the Web Today for the heads up.)