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Obama Names Top DoJ Appointees

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Eric Lichtblau reports, "Obama Names 4 for Justice Jobs in Break From Bush Path," in today's New York Times. President-elect Barack Obama reached back to the Clinton administration again Monday to fill four top Justice Department posts with lawyers whose records signal a sharp break from the legal policies of the last eight years. Mr. Obama said he would nominate David W. Ogden, a Washington lawyer in private practice, as deputy attorney general; Elena Kagan, dean of the Harvard Law School, as solicitor general; Thomas J. Perrelli, a Washington lawyer, as associate attorney general; and Dawn E. Johnsen, an Indiana University law professor, as head of the Office of Legal Counsel. All four held senior legal posts in the Clinton administration...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).