Sharon Browne

Lawyer From Far-Right Group Picked For Key Legal-Aid Post

Zachary Roth | December 18, 2009, 3:11PM

To help run the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the nation's largest provider of civil legal aid for the poor, Senate Republicans have picked an attorney from a far-right legal organization that has a history of ideological opposition to legal-aid work.

The White House announced yesterday that it had nominated Sharon Browne of the Pacific Legal Foundation as one of three Republican board members of the LSC. Minority party nominees for the LSC board are traditionally generated by the Senate leader of the party that doesn't control the White House, and Don Stewart, a spokesman for Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, confirmed to TPMmuckraker that McConnell's office had recommended all three GOP nominees.

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