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The Washington Times reports, today, that the Federalist Society has hired the media firm Creative Response Concepts (CRC), which was responsible for the ads used by Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, to prepare for the battle over the next Supreme Court Justice. CRC will be used to counter Ralph Neas's group, People For the American Way, which has already started preparing for the pending battle.

[CRC] has been hired into the judicial battle by the Federalist Society, the influential conservative judicial organization from which many of Mr. Bush's nominees have been picked.
"This doesn't surprise me," Mr. Neas said of the Federalist Society's hiring of CRC. "It just proves the point I've been making for years: It's a right-wing organization that is very political and very partisan."
Mr. Mueller[, president of CRC,] said the Federalist Society's role in the nomination fight will be to "educate people" about the possible nominees. To that end, the society has created a list of legal analysts to talk to reporters.
"All the people on the list are seasoned legal minds," he said. Many on the list, Mr. Mueller said, are former clerks to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Justice Antonin Scalia or Clarence Thomas — all conservatives after whom Mr. Bush has said he will model any Supreme Court nominees.