Legal Commentary

An Insight Into Obama's Vetting Problems

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

My law school classmate Richard Painter is guest blogging up a storm over at Chez Volokh. This has been a reminder that Richard thinks very differently from me.

I found this remark about Team Obama’s vetting troubles insightful:

the nominees who have been problems have not been from the President’s Chicago inner circle but other Democratic party stalwarts, many of whom did not work for his campaign until he got the nomination. Contrast this to the problems with the inner circles of Nixon, Carter (remember Bert Lance!) and Clinton and other presidents who brought to Washington some people from their home states who should have stayed home.

One commentator suggested it was because the old guard had already been thrown under vehicles during the campaign, but I don’t think most of the few cause célèbres would have up for jobs anyway.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on March 25, 2009 (boomark / email).