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Kmiec Endorses Obama

Whenever there has been a major legal issue involving a political split between right and left, Douglas Kmiec has been solidly on the right.

He even backed Harriet Miers for her Supreme Court nomination.

So I'm pretty surprised to see that he's endorsed Obama. Here's his statement:

As Americans, we must voice our concerns for the well-being of our nation without partisanship when decisions that have been made endanger the body politic. Our president has involved our nation in a military engagement without sufficient justification or clear objective.

In so doing, he has incurred both tragic loss of life and extraordinary debt jeopardizing the economy and the well-being of the average American citizen. In pursuit of these fatally flawed purposes, the office of the presidency, which it was once my privilege to defend in public office formally, has been distorted beyond its constitutional assignment.

Wow. This is not something I expected to see from Doug Kmiec.

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on March 23, 2008 (boomark / email).