Talk:Thomas B. Griffith

message: Smashingworth:
Nobody is trying to keep people from knowing that Griffith never joined the Utah Bar.  The problem with your edits is to mislead people into thinking that Griffith did something wrong.  He wasn't required to get a law license, as it's a common practice to associate with an in-state attorney in order to advise your in-state clients.  The entire paragraph is not written neutrally but from a partisan point of view.  There are scare quotes around "clerical oversight."  The fact that Griffith did not need the Utah license is only the perspective of "Griffith's defenders."  It's a little ridiculous.  All I did was delete your redundant and argumentative sentence, which started out quite petulantly, with the words, "Still ..."  
Don't pretend that because I'm trying to remove your argumentative way of stating the facts that I'm trying to "Keep the truth from the people!"  That's not what this is about.
As of now, the compromise isn't bad, but I still think it could be re-worked.  After all, the controversy is really no controversy at all, and the page should explain that, not try and stir the pot.--Smashingworth 21:55, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Utah Law License 

message: A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Thomas Beall Griffith was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 23:18, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: This is a good question.  the simple answer is that the fact that the Tom Griffith refered to near the end of the 1994 Church news article is not evident from that article.  True, we could ask, how many Tom Griffiths living in the DC area who were Mormon lawyers could there have been in 1994?  the answer is, certainly more than one.  It is only the later Church News article that clearly indicates that the Thomas Griffith who we are speaking of lived in Leesburg at the time he became Senate Counsel that we can be reaonably certain that there is only one Thomas Griffith.  While there may have been multiple Mormon lawyers in the DC area named Tom Griffith, it seems very unlikely that there were multiple Mormon lawyers living in Leesburg named Tom Griffith, so I think my connecting the dots here works.  It would help if I could find an article about Griffith's later life that supports his having attended Langley High School, but bios of American figures that are easy to find tend to be remarkably silent on where these people went to high school.John Pack Lambert (talk) 00:07, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the source section? 

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