Now now, people who clerk for Scalia are not always evil incarnate. At least Clement is not one of the Regent One Fifty.

Also, has Goodling taken the fifth, or merely said she would? If, as Conyers suggests, she needs to show up and assert her rights, then she can't be fired for doing so until after she does. There's a difference between saying you'll obstruct justice and obstructing justice.

I'll hold off judgement on Clement. He's obviously a very smart lawyer with the potential to be a future supreme court justice. Although he's conservative, I very much doubt that he's ethically sleazy like so many Bush appointees.

If partiality is something you will look for, quit dreaming. Everyone associated with this administration must establish their conservative christo-fundo bona fides before moving forward.

This guy has the credentials. It is not a crime being political.

However, tapping this guy may be his kiss of death, especially if he aspires to the Supreme Court.

A credentialed and allegedly principled jurist needs, at least at a young age, to separate themselves from the meat grinder of politics and focus more on ivory tower jurisprudence if they want to avoid ruffling idealogical feathers that could come to haunt them later.

"I very much doubt that he's ethically sleazy like so many Bush appointees."

I'm way over giving the benefit of the doubt to any bushie. To bad guilt by association is not constitutional. Not that they would recognize that as it applies to all but themselves.

**n other words, it was his call to make her the first ever DoJ official to stay on the payroll after pleading the Fifth**

Josh framed it this way as well, but technically, is it not true that she hasn't actually pled the fifth yet? Don't you have to be asked a question in order to invoke your 5th amendment privilege? She has said that she'll plead the fifth, but she hasn't actually done it yet, right?

Somewhat unrelated but note this press release announcing that one figure in the whole affair has a new job:

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070409005622&newsLang=en

Also note the story the release tells of why he's going to work there.

And, note the "Editor's Note" at the bottom, which says he will not be available for interviews at this time. Wonder why?

At least he has impeccable credentials: BA Georgetown, MS Cambridge, JD Harvard, clerked for a SCOTUS justice. Unlike those who attended the Pat Robinson school of law and hold nearly as powerful positions.

Of course Scalia was the first name that popped into my head.

Alhough he clerked for Scalia, his resume is impressive. We will have to wait and see how this plays out. I'm not holding my breath!!

Have they built an Ivory Tower at Justice?

I notice Clement does have a superior resume--and would be able to get a job with any firm in the city; he probably could get a teaching job at quite a few fine law schools--including a few a notch or two above Regent Law. But I see no prosecutorial experience. A guy who has never been in the trenches is unlikely to have a natural sympathy with the ordinary foot soldiers at DOJ.

And even given all of the degrees, this guy still does seem pretty d-mned young.

Plus that law course on "Separation of Powers" gives me no comfort. The Unitarians always talk about the "unfettered Executive" but they conveniently seem to forget that there is also a concept called checks and balances.

I wonder if he's aware of this:
A convoluted 'press release'. Quoting part:
http://www.pressrelease365.com/pr/government/federal/graves-attorney-general-gonzales-1275.htm
Samuel Lipari became concerned that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was using the firing of appointed US Attorneys and senior assistant US Attorneys to obstruct justice in investigations involving public corruption on October 18, 2004 when white collar crime prosecuting Assistant US Attorneys Leonard Senerote, Michael Uhl and Michael Snipes were fired from the Ft. Worth Texas office of the US Attorney that had issued subpoenas in an ongoing investigation of Novation LLC and other hospital suppliers for anticompetitive practices. Samuel Lipari was especially concerned over the firings in the Ft. Worth office where the chief US Attorney responsible for Medicare fraud, Thelma Louise Quince Colbert had been found dead in her swimming pool on July 20th, 2004 and the Ft. Worth office Senior US Prosecuting Attorney that had signed the subpoenas, Shannon Ross (formerly of Kansas) was found dead in her home on September 13th, 2004. Shannon Ross's investigation of Novation LLC sparked the New York Times article "Wide U.S. Inquiry Into Purchasing For Health Care" on Saturday August 21, 2004.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales used a little known provision of the USA PATRIOT Act to replace Todd P. Graves with Bradley Schlozman. Bradley Schlozman failed to prosecute public corruption related to the Medical Supply Chain litigation and failed to enforce civil rights laws related to the Novation LLC defendants success in getting Medical Supply Chain's counsel Bret D. Landrith disbarred. Samuel Lipari raised these concerns before the US Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit. On January 16, 2007 Attorney General Gonzales tried to quell criticism of the mass US Attorney firings and the misuse of the USA PATRIOT Act by announcing John Wood would be taking Schlozman's place in Kansas City.

“'I am so glad he is solicitor general, because he makes my job easier,' Justice Antonin Scalia said..."'nuff said.

The systemic corruption of our government by the republicans and their inability to be truthfull has outraged the average taxpayer. We are at a place where no one trusts this administration. The really frightening part is that in our present situation, there are striking parallels to that which preceded the French Revolution. Are we facing a Second American Revolution? It's beginning to look that way.

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