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Showing posts with label Department of Justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Department of Justice. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Are you a card-carrying member of The Advocates for Human Rights?


Are you now or have you ever been a member of the ... Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights (a/k/a The Advocates for Human Rights)? The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota? The Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy? The Minnesota Justice Foundation?*

Well then, to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, you might just be a liberal -- at least under the into-the-rabbit-hole logic apparently in play at the Department of Justice during the tenure of Alberto Gonzales. The Minnesota Independent (formerly known as the Minnesota Monitor) reports today that affiliation with one of those those prominent local legal organizations could get a qualified candidate deselected for the Attorney General’s Honors Program and the Summer Law Intern Program.

*Also worthy of note: "The Innocence Project" merited a listing, which presumably includes the Innocence Project of Minnesota.

Thursday, May 3, 2007

Depoliticize Justice?

In today’s op-ed pages of the New York Times, a former deputy attorney general presents a novel way of restoring confidence in the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Rather than question whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should go or stay, the author argues that the attorney general shouldn’t be a cabinet position at all — it should be a fixed-term job, instead.

“Likewise, the 93 United States attorneys should not be political apparatchiks, but talented lawyers selected half from Republican ranks and half from Democratic,” Arnold I. Burns writes.

Click here for the full opinion piece, “Two Parties, One Law.”