prospect.org - 1/5/2009
—
The latest news from the Transition Office : We have sub-cabinet Justice Department nominees -- bios after the jump:
Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate the following individuals for key posts at the United States Department of Justice: David Ogden , ...
usaservice.org - 1/7/2009
—
usaservice.org —
General Colin L. Powell Announces USAservice.org General Colin
L. Powell, USA (Ret.), and the Presidential Inaugural Committee
just unveiled President-elect Obama’s “Renew America Together” initiative, asking all Americans to make an ongoing ...
(more)
USA Service
usdoj.gov - 1/5/2009
—
usdoj.gov —
The original Statutory Authorization Act of June 22,
1870, states, " There shall be in the Department
of Justice an officer learned in the law, to assist the Attorney General in the performance of his duties to be called the Solicitor General. " The ...
(more)
Office of the Solicitor General
boston.com - 1/5/2009
—
boston.com —
By Sasha Issenberg, Globe Staff Elena Kagan, Harvard
law school's dean, will be the new solicitor general,
President-elect Barack Obama's transition office announced. She will be Obama's voice at the US Supreme Court, and she has been considered a ...
(more)
Kagan nominated for solicitor general
Comments
Blog Reactions
Obama names Elena Kagan as Solicitor General
Feministing —
... , was named the new head of the Office of Legal Counsel. So we got another high-level female appointee - one with a strong reproductive rights background to boot! Sweet. ...
A different view on torture at OLC
Ben Smith's Blog —
The incoming head of the Office of Legal Counsel, Dawn Johnsen, is a sharp critic of the office's performance under President Bush, and made the case for a much more muscular, confrontational role in a long law review article published last year.
The appointment of Johnsen, a professor at the University of Indiana, will give comfort to critics of the Bush Administration's torture policy, as her article is cast as an examination of that office's failures to stop what Johnsen sees as "abuses" and "illegal practices" in the Bush Administration's torture policy.
"Ultimately, even with the current Supreme Court’s relatively strong willingness ...
Obamarama Transitionalicious-a-Go-Go Continues...
Shakesville —
... Other key nominations to the Department of Justice include: David Ogden, Deputy Attorney General; Elena Kagan, Solicitor General; Tom Perrelli, Associate Attorney General; and Dawn Johnsen, Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel. ...
The real deal at Justice
Political Animal —
... for the Washington Monthly in 2002 on Bush's conservative judicial nominees. As Tim Fernholz noted , Johnsen has also recently published pieces such as Faithfully Executing the Laws: Internal Legal Constraints on Executive Power and What's a President to Do? Interpreting the Constitution in the Wake of the Bush Administration's Abuses . "Given that OLC was a hotbed of torture-justifying and illegal-surveillance-allowing during the last administration, it's nice to see that the new boss has a different set of ideas," Fernholz added. Damn straight. Johnsen has specifically ...
Hullabaloo —
... Conservatives are now brushing off the Schiavo case to use it against Thomas Perrelli, President-elect Obama’s pick for the no. 3 spot at the Justice Department. Right-wing websites are outraged at Obama’s association with Perrelli, since he was ...
Related Content
President-elect Obama announces key Department of Justice posts
change.gov 1/5/2009 — WASHINGTON -- Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate the following individuals for key posts at the United States Department of Justice: David Ogden, Deputy Attorney General; Elena Kagan, Solicitor General; Tom ...
Obama Announces Top DOJ Picks
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/7/2009 — The process of rebuilding the Department of Justice after eight years of unprecedented politicization under President Bush continues apace.
President-elect Barack Obama today announced, in a press release , his nominees to fill four key posts ...
Counties To Watch: Florida, Virginia, Ohio
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 11/2/2008 — There are dozens of way to skin a state on election night, but only some of the data is relevant. What's the largest county in a state by population? What was the Democratic margin there? (These large counties are almost always won by the ...
Petraeus Leaked Misleading Story on Pullout Plans
antiwar.com 2/12/2009 — Excerpt: The political maneuvering between President Barack Obama and his top field commanders over withdrawal from Iraq has taken a sudden new turn with the leak by CENTCOM commander Gen. David Petraeus -- and a firm denial by a White House official ...
TPMmuckraker's Complete List of Bush-Era DOJ Stonewallers
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/18/2009 — At least nine Bush administration officials refused to cooperate with various Justice Department investigations during the final days of the Bush presidency, according to public records and interviews with federal law enforcement officials and many ...
Alaska Elections
elections.alaska.gov 11/6/2008 — spacer State of Alaska > Division of Election > Public Notice of Proposed Regulations Notice of Proposed Changes and Additional Information December 14, 2007 Election-Related Legislation Status of bills and pending legislation in the Alaska State ...
GOP vs. UAW, USA-Part II
openleft.com 12/21/2008 — This is a follow-up to my diary GOP vs. UAW, USA , in which I'll extend my argument that the GOP's refusal to support the auto bailout is demonstrative of their hatred of America. I will draw on three recent documents. First is a Washington ...
OSG: About the Office of the Solicitor General
usdoj.gov 1/3/2009 — The task of the Office of the Solicitor General is to supervise and conduct government litigation in the United States Supreme Court. Virtually all such litigation is channeled through the Office of the Solicitor General and is actively conducted by ...
OIC at the UN: Dialogue for Dhimmis & more Stealth Jihad
jihadwatch.org 12/28/2008 — Comments by David G. Littman of the Association for World Education, UN-Geneva. See his previous articles on Stealth Jihad at the United Nations here and here .
On December 10 Human Rights Day a high level seminar and debate was organized at ...
Obama to name first woman solicitor general —
First Read 1/5/2009
From NBC's Pete Williams President-Elect Obama intends to nominate the dean of the Harvard Law School to be the first female full-time solicitor general, the government's top courtroom advocate. No woman has ever held the position in any ...
More Obama Justice Dept. picks announced —
CNN Political Ticker 1/5/2009
(CNN) — The Obama transition released a Harvard-heavy list of Justice Department appointments Monday. Transition release follows after the jump.
WASHINGTON – Today, President-elect Barack Obama announced that he intends to nominate the ...
Follow BeltwayBlips on Twitter
