The real roots of the U.S. attorney firings New Republic

[Demeter]

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The real roots of the U.S. attorney firings.

A Unified Theory of Scandal

by Jeffrey Rosen
Post date 04.12.07 | Issue date 04.23.07

The ideological roots of the Justice Department scandal aren't buried in Karl Rove's office. They reside in a less likely place: the pages of The Harvard Law Review. More precisely, this scandal traces back to a 1992 article co-written by a founder of the Federalist Society, Steven Calabresi. A few years earlier, Calabresi had served as a special assistant to Ronald Reagan's attorney general, Ed Meese. During his time in government, Calabresi shared the Reaganite revulsion with the power wielded by EPA bureaucrats, Justice Department lawyers, and other obstreperous paper-pushers who populated the administrative state. These career denizens of government righteously trumpeted their commitment to objective analysis and the neutral application of the law. But these claims, conservatives argued, were merely guises for a liberal political agenda....

[aquart]

1. Reagan poisons beyond the grave.

Oh, goody.

[LiberalFighter]

2. THAT is where the nuclear waste should be dumped! On his grave.

[Demeter]

3. I Second the Notion!