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George W. Bush seems fond of people who are willing to do terrible things: war crimes, deception, running the Bill of Rights through a paper shredder- the list goes on and on. But the latest Bush-connected scandal surrounds Michael E. O’Neill, the former chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, who helped give us the Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts. Now that Bush has nominated O'Neill himself for to the Federal District Court in Washington, his long history of plagiarism has come to light.