nytimes.com - 12/11/2008
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The American Constitution Society, founded in 2001 to be a liberal counterweight to the conservative Federalist Society, is rising to power. >
eschatonblog.com - 12/6/2008
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CNBC tells me that Jared Bernstein will be
Biden's chief economist. Didn't know he'd need one, but...
good choice!
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Political Animal —
... in 2010. He'll likely face state Attorney General Tom Corbett and former U.S. Attorney Pat Meehan in a GOP primary. * The American Constitution Society has been around for a few years, serving as something akin to a liberal version of the conservative Federalist Society, but when it comes to political significance, the ACS is about to get quite a bit more attention .— ...
An exciting time for the law
BlueOregon —
... Now, however, the pendulum is starting to swing back. President-elect Obama has chosen several of his top legal appointees from the ranks of ACS -- that includes his picks for Attorney General, Solicitor General, White House Staff Secretary, domestic policy advisor, and Vice President-elect Biden's Chief-of-Staff. This is good news, because these folks have been working hard in the last eight years to flesh out strategies for overturning many of Bush's extreme legal arguments. Moreover, they will have the ethical backbone not to draw the strict ideological ...
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