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New Obama picks for DoJ

Posted by David Hardy · 5 January 2009 10:02 AM

For Deputy AG: David W. Ogden -- his background: under the Clinton Admin, was Ass't Atty General for Civil Division, and Chief of Staff to the Attorney General.

For Solicitor General: Elena Kagan. Her background: dean of Harvard law, taught at Chicago, clerked for Abner Mikva on DC Circuit and then for Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court.

For Associate AG: Tom Perrelli. His background: longtime private practitioner, mostly representing the entertainment industry. Under Clinton Admin., was Deputy AG, and counselor to the AG.

Hat tip to reader David Adams.

3 Comments | Leave a comment

30yearProf | January 5, 2009 2:24 PM | Reply

RE Ms. Kagan: "clerked for Abner Mikva."

Mikva was a VERY ANTI-GUN Congressman from Chicago and later a federal judge. He's a great buddy of Obama.

WP Zeller | January 6, 2009 4:46 AM | Reply

Abner Mikva! Cause for concern, indeed.

The first thing when I saw Mikva's name was that my hair stood on end. He was sitting next to Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a Daley Machine functionary as frightening as any, when she went public with her appalling plan to remove Governor Blagojevich by Supreme Court dictum so that Obama and the Machine wouldn't be exposed by Blagojevich's bad acts.

He's a statist of the worst kind, a socialist with a tolerance for Machine corruption. I know Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, seemed to endorse Kagan, but if civil rights are an issue, there's nothing reassuring about this one. The University of Chicago thing isn't helping, either.

The other Clinton Admin hooks don't bode well for Constitutional propriety, either. Janet Reno never did a day in prison, after all.

doug in colorado | January 6, 2009 11:04 AM | Reply

Ah...the best and the brightest (like Kennedy's groupthink cabinet, all hubris and no common sense), but where's the change? All the oldtime party hacks from the Clinton and Carter years...

Obamanauts, are you happy now with your Hopey-Changey thing?

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