Bush names choice for solicitor general

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Friday chose Paul D. Clement as solicitor general, the job Clement has held for the past eight months on an acting basis.
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When Olson returned to private practice last summer, Clement was named acting solicitor general.

Clement drew criticism when he assured justices during oral arguments last term that the administration could be trusted with broad authority to detain suspected terrorists without giving them an opportunity to be heard in court.

When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pointedly asked what check there would be against torture of detainees, Clement said a U.S. president wouldn't do that.

But "what's constraining? That's the point," Ginsburg replied. In the following weeks, the Bush administration was forced to defend, and eventually repudiate, an internal Justice Department memo arguing that torture might be justified in the fight against al-Qaida.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/03/11/bush_names_choice_for_solicitor_general/

[paineinthearse]

1. Is this position subject to Senate confirmation? nt

[Rose Siding]

2. Yes

[Mnemosyne]

3. Anyone know which rock THIS guy crawled out from under?

It never ceases to amaze me how each choice the Lunatic makes is more disgusting than the next.

[atommom]

4. The scary thing is that there are this many people standing in line

to be appointed, every one of them willing to bend or break the law for the Bushies.... and there are more waiting in the wings if one falls.

[Anakin Skywalker]

5. SOLICITOR General?

Damn! He should've named Jeffy Gannon!

[nytemare]

6. LOL, I was just thinking the same thing

Except Gannon I think was the Solicited.

[struggle4progress]

7. Influence of Decalogue on U.S. law debated

... “Justices of this court, decisions of lower courts and the writings of countless historians and academics have long recognized the significant influence that the Ten Commandments have had on the development of American law,” wrote Acting Solicitor General Paul Clement in a brief submitted to the Supreme Court. Clement, representing President Bush’s administration, was arguing in favor of Ten Commandments displays in the McCreary and Pulaski County, Ky., courthouses ...

http://www.baptiststandard.com/postnuke/index.php?module=htmlpages&func=display&pid=3097