New at Reason
Steve Chapman manages to tamp down his exuberance about the new attorney general-designate.
Comments to "New at Reason":
Mad Max | September 20, 2007, 7:27am | #
"What would be much more valuable is to know, if they are ever in a position to nominate someone for attorney general, who it would be. You think you could do better? Fine—take your best shot, right now."Janet Rogers Brown.
SIV | September 20, 2007, 8:03am | #
You mean Janice Rogers Brown.I'd prefer her on the Supreme Court but AG wouldn't be bad.
Elemenope | September 20, 2007, 8:41am | #
Janice Rogers Brown? You can't be serious. While she claims to be a Lib, her decisions have been almost criminally deferential of executive authority, and she has remarkably un-Lib opinions on Abortion and Gun Rights.You'd be better off with Posner or Kozinski.
Michael Pack | September 20, 2007, 9:10am | #
I was reading this article while the news played in the background.I heard that O.J.,with after tax income of 360,000 per year,might not be able to afford a good defense.If the law is priced beyond the reach of every day people does it matter who the AG is,really?Warren | September 20, 2007, 9:19am | #
If the law is priced beyond the reach of every day people does it matter who the AG is,really?It matters in the sense of who gets targeted for oppression. Gun hording religious groups and day care providers, vs pornographers, gamblers and doctors.
Michael Pack | September 20, 2007, 9:49am | #
Warren,I see your point.It's like the bully on the play ground.The ones spared grief are happy their left alone.How far have we sunk?joe | September 20, 2007, 10:17am | #
Great column.Alberto Gonzales, another nominee whose virtues were far more visible to Bush than to anyone else
Hillary Clinton got to know several prosecutors, most notably Kenneth Starr
Lol.
Alan Vanneman | September 20, 2007, 10:23am | #
I have to disagree with your enthusiasm for RFK as AG. It' true that, ultimately, he became a champion of civil rights, but it's not the role he longed for. In his zeal to assassinate Castro, Kennedy had Dept. of Justice folks talking with the mafia. Not too classy.Out of the last fifteen Attorney Generals, the only one that stands out to me is Elliot Richardson. Of course, if Bush appointed someone with that devotion to the rule of law, he/she would resign before two weeks had passed.
Harriet Myers - as a consolation prize. Or one of the Anna Nicole Smith lawyers for the sheer chutzpah.
JBinMO | September 20, 2007, 11:01am | #
I am in Missouri and remen=mber when Ashcroft lost to Mel Carnahan, a few months after Carnahan died (I think in a plane crash). Even here it was practicly a joke that a guy who lost would become AG.