Constitutional Law

Professor, Issue Brief Author Among White House Counsel Appointments

The Obama administration today released a list of key appointments to the Office of White House Counsel. TPM reports on the list here. Among President Obama’s appointments is Trevor W. Morrison, a Columbia Law School professor and author of an Issue Brief distributed by ACS. In his Issue Brief, which was also published in Advance: The Journal of the ACS Issue Groups, Morrison examined the Bush administration’s legal reasoning for its controversial stances on torture, its signing statement regarding a proposed constitutional amendment barring torture and its defense of domestic wiretapping. Morrison’s Issue Brief is available here.

Full post as published by ACS Blog on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).