Justice Department Tracked Federalist Society Influence On U.S. Attorneys

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/13/federalist-attorneys/

Justice Department Tracked Federalist Society Influence On U.S. Attorneys

Today, the House Judiciary Committee released a new set of documents from the Department of Justice relating to the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys.

The last page of document set 3 contains an email from Monica Goodling with an attached Excel spreadsheet on “USA data (GWB).”

The spreadsheet appears to assess a list of U.S. Attorneys based on a variety of different qualifications, including prosecution experience and political experience. But there is one column dedicated solely to an assessment of whether the attorneys are members of the Federalist Society. See below. The far right column contains a data column for “FedSoc”:






The Federalist Society has served as a kind of gateway for judges and legal aides who strive to work inside the Bush administration, in effect promoting individuals who have dedicated themselves to enforcing a right-wing ideology rather than the law. University of Illinois Professor Jerry Landay described the group in the Washington Monthly as a “conservative cabal that’s transforming American Law.”

During his Supreme Court nomination hearing, Chief Justice John Roberts repeatedly sought to distance himself from a connection to the conservative legal group, unwilling to be tarred by its association.

[MADem]

1. Oh gee, I am shocked, I tell you....shocked...

Not really. It's obvious that these bums are in it up to their eyeballs. Remember how someone went into the Reagan Library and stole some papers about Roberts to protect his reputation from these baaastids?

[gaspee]

3. Wow

I missed that story. I thought I'd kept pretty good track of all the scandals.

It's going to take decades to recover from this.

[MADem]

6. Read all about it.....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601457.html

[MikeE]

2. Hmm

How appropriate that they used the far right column. I'd laugh if I wasn't so disgusted.

[kestrel91316]

4. K&R

[peacetalksforall]

5. Fed Society - dedicated to substituting OUR Consitution for the

one they are rewriting and shoving theirs down our throat with signing statements, executive orders, slipping paragraphs into Bills, forcing votes without time to study, press coverage for the demeaning of our court system - getting us to suspect it, not respect it - all in cahoots with the appropriate people in Congress and the WH and other departments. Proud member? Senator Hatch. Ed Meese. Dan Quayle. and way too many more and with local Fed Society branches all over the country.

John Roberts tried - didn't succeed. Perfect match - his record and Fed Society.

P.S. Some blatantly did the talk show rounds in the 90's to assist in the character assassination of the Clintons and Gore.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. "the far right column" LOL! Yeah, keep an eye on that far right column.

[eppur_se_muova]

9. You'd expect it to be the fifth column ... nt

[Tejanocrat]

8. Holy cow! Wouldn't they just EXPLODE if Clinton evaluated US Attorney appointees on whether or not

they were card-carrying members of the ACLU?