He's Baacckk!! -- DC Ciruit nominee Kavanaugh, election thief, ken starr

[pat_k]

. . .henchmen.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1141652122161

. . . when the Senate moved to hold over all nominees at the end of the last congressional session, Kavanaugh was again left out because of Democratic opposition. So the White House renominated him in January, sending the message that it won't allow Kavanaugh to be forgotten.

Now he's back at the front of the confirmation line. . . .

The D.C. Circuit -- often called the second-most-important court in the country because of its jurisdiction over federal government agencies -- has been fertile ground for past confirmation fights. Exhibit A: the controversy over Miguel Estrada, so nasty that it led him to withdraw in September 2003.
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A protégé of independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Kavanaugh was a key figure in the Whitewater investigation. In the recount fight after the 2000 election, he served as a foot soldier in the legal army that descended on Florida and gave Bush his presidency. As a lawyer for Bush in the White House counsel's office, he shepherded most of the administration's contentious federal court nominees, including Miguel Estrada and Priscilla Owen.
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. . .Kavanaugh moved to a yearlong fellowship in the solicitor general's office under Starr. There he worked alongside conservative luminaries such as Roberts and Maureen Mahoney and had a chance to argue his first appeals court case. In 1993, Kavanaugh moved up the clerkship ladder again, this time into the chambers of Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court.

As Kavanaugh's Kennedy clerkship was ending in the summer of 1994, Starr was tapped to replace Robert Fiske as independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation. One of his first moves was to bring Kavanaugh on board.

One of his initial duties was to lead the probe into the apparent suicide of White House counsel Vincent Foster, a close personal friend of President Bill Clinton and first lady Hillary and a former colleague of Hillary's at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas -- which Kavanaugh also investigated.
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But Kavanaugh's true return to politics came in 2000, when he joined the Bush recount team in Florida, overseeing Volusia County. After the election he was offered a spot in the White House counsel's office, then headed by Alberto Gonzales, where he joined an A-list of top conservative lawyers, including Rachel Brand, now assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel; Stuart Bowen, now special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction; and Courtney Elwood, the current deputy chief of staff for Gonzales.

That office, however, has come under scrutiny recently for its role in drafting memos justifying the use of torture in questioning terrorism suspects and validating the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program. Although he worked in the office at the time, Kavanaugh hasn't been directly tied to those controversial policies.
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Meanwhile, Kavanaugh replaced Harriet Miers as staff secretary, a little-known but powerful post in the Executive Office of the President. It's more a political than a policy job, but lawyers often hold it because it requires reviewing every piece of paper before it lands on the president's desk. Kavanaugh's position has brought him close to Bush, with whom he has traveled around the globe. The president even made a special appearance at Kavanaugh's 2004 wedding to Bush's personal secretary, Ashley Estes, held at Georgetown's Christ Episcopal Church.

[acmavm]

1. Where do they find all these f**kwits? n/t

[pat_k]

3. Brock's "Blinded by the Right" helps to explain. . . they are about hate.

. . .Misfit, angry, people finding a social nitch. There is no "ideology" -- it is just hate, reaction, and just plain doing what is expected to make a living. Their jobs are financed by the Scaife's of the world. Many could not get a "real" job if their lives depended on it.

If you haven't read it, I recommended it. Explains a lot.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Another day another Nazi!

Let's make every court in the land a kangaroo court, 'cause we can. I guess the democrats will have a chat with this liar and trust him too.