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Where are the Biden legal profiles?

By Mark Obbie

Journalists are starting to outline Joe Biden's legal-policy stances (as onetime chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee) and his political affiliation with trial lawyers in tort-reform debates. Two stories flagged by Overlawyered -- in yesterday's USA Today by Ken Dilanian and today's LA Times by Chuck Neubauer and Tom Hamburger -- examined various aspects of Biden's longtime policy preference for plaintiffs, his alliance and financial dependence on their lawyers, and the ethical implications of his opposition to asbestos-litigation reforms while his son and a former aide stood to gain. So far I haven't seen a comprehensive legal portrait of Biden. Legal Times helpfully indexed its past coverage of Biden, and Biden's writings in the paper. Bloggers, such as Sentencing Law and Policy's Doug Berman, are nibbling at this, and providing useful links and analyses. But, given our focus here, we're hoping to see a fresh, comprehensive, reported-journalism project take shape soon.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on August 28, 2008 (boomark / email).