A "surge" of lawyers to achieve "victory" in the White House
josh at tpm offers this...
all i ask is that we get this long-delayed constitutional crisis underway... i know everybody in congress is avoiding it like the plague, but, goddam it, it's way, way overdue, and we better get after it rather than sitting around watching our country continue to be dismembered by the most lawless presidential administration in history...
(thanks to mcjoan at daily kos...)
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Lawyering up. Prez adds nine new lawyers to the White House Counsel's staff.
Late Update: TPM Reader AB checks in ...Did you note that three of the nine came from the Washington, D.C. firm previously known as Wiley, Rein & Fielding? It is now called Wiley Rein, LLP, since its name member, Fred Fielding, moved to the White House late last year, to help defend BushCo from Congressional oversight and investigation. It appears that Fielding's assessment is that the situation ahead is dire and so he is moving part of his lawyer firm into the White House as reinforcements, a "surge" of lawyers we might call it.Later Update: As many TPM Readers have noted, not a single Regent Univ. Law School alum among the nine. For the people, Regent, for the prez, the Ivy Leagues.
all i ask is that we get this long-delayed constitutional crisis underway... i know everybody in congress is avoiding it like the plague, but, goddam it, it's way, way overdue, and we better get after it rather than sitting around watching our country continue to be dismembered by the most lawless presidential administration in history...
(thanks to mcjoan at daily kos...)
Labels: Bush Administration, Fred Fielding, Josh Marshall, White House, White House Counsel, Wiley Rein LLP
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posted by profmarcus at
6/08/2007
