Ethics

Lederman to the OLC

By Ed Brayton

In addition to the brilliant selections of Dawn Johnsen and David Barron, Marty Lederman of Georgetown Law School has been nominated to be Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel by President Obama.

From the moment Barack Obama was elected I was rooting for Lederman to be named head of the OLC, where he once worked and about which he has written and spoken so passionately over the last few years in regard to how that vital agency had failed in its role as a safeguard against overreaching executive powers.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).