Legal Commentary

Donna Shalala to Receive Presdiental Medal of Freedom

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

White House Names 6 for Medal of Freedom — and UM President Donna Shalala is one of them.

She’ll share the stage with Gen. Peter Pace, who’s getting a consolation prize for not being renominated as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs (the administration was afraid to let Congress ask him hard questions). Also present will be Senior Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the D.C. Circuit, long a linchpin of the very right-wing group on that court.

There will be a posthumous award to Representative Tom Lantos of California, a human rights champion who was also an early supporter (and, later, doubter) of the Iraq war.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on June 14, 2008 (boomark / email).