“He will most likely never again be able to practice law”

Republican reaction to the Libby commutation has generally focussed, as the President did in announcing it, on the severity of the other aspects of the sentence – being a convicted felon (which apparently means disbarment), and the $250,000 fine. As to the latter, Friends of the President will presumably fundraise that nut in a few days. And as to the former, I suppose Libby might have been dusting off his copy of “Will drafting for Dummies”, but it’s hard to imagine him returning to the practice of law in any meaningful way. Lobbyist, speech-giver, author and right-wing think-tank darling, surely? This sounds like pure spin to me.