Bush nominates plagiarist to Federal bench

Preznit Honor 'n' Integritude nominated Michael E. O’Neill to be a judge on the Federal District Court last month, and there are signs that his nomination might be a difficult one as well nobody seems to give a shit, even the guy whose work was stolen.

Last year, a peer-reviewed legal journal, the Supreme Court Economic Review, issued a retraction of an article by Mr. O’Neill in 2004. “Substantial portions” of the article, the editors wrote, were “appropriated without attribution” from a book review by another law professor. In addition, at least four articles by Mr. O’Neill in other publications contain passages that appear to have been lifted from other scholars’ works without quotation marks or attribution.

Oh, and FTA: "He is working on a master’s degree in writing fiction."