Ethics

Obama's DOJ Nominees

By Ed Brayton

The Obama campaign has released the names of several nominees for key positions in the Department of Justice. The most prominent is Elena Kagan, current dean of Harvard Law School, to replace Paul Clement as Solicitor General. I don't know much about Kagan as an actual courtroom advocate, but she certainly has all the credentials as a legal scholar.

Following Clement will be a hard act to follow. He had few peers as an advocate, rivaling John Roberts in the eyes of most observers on both the right and the left as one of the finest appellate attorneys ever to appear before the high court.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).