volokh.com - 11/21/2008
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Like co-blogger Orin Kerr, I tend to believe that Republicans shouldn't fight the confirmation of Eric Holder, Obama's nominee for attorney general. Most of the objections to Holder articulated by...
blog.newsweek.com - 11/18/2008
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President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder
as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer
in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential ...
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Powering Up : Obama's Attorney General
volokh.com - 11/21/2008
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volokh.com —
Earlier this year, Eric Holder--along with Janet Reno
and several other former officials from the Clinton Department
of Justice--co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief...
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Eric Holder on firearms policy:
blog.newsweek.com - 11/18/2008
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blog.newsweek.com —
President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder
as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer
in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the ...
(more)
Obama's Attorney General
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Obama's appointments
Stubborn Facts —
I join Ilya Somin in full on this.
Executive branch officers are the "hand[s] of the President," United States v. Cox, 342 F.2d 167, 171 (5th Cir. 1965) (en banc), "intermediaries for the executive power, and surrogates for the President in whom that power is vested by the Constitution." Presidents, like Governors, "must work through and therefore be able to trust and rely on [their] subordinates"; they "can only implement their policies (and thereby keep their promises [to the electorate]) through the agency of their officers." ...
Obama's appointments, II
Stubborn Facts —
"Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) says nominees for attorney general are not analogous to nominees for the Supreme Court and shouldn't be treated as such." He's right, for reasons Ilya Somin gave in a post we linked to here.
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