| Are Obama’s Judges really Liberals?
Toobin, Jeffrey
The New Yorker, September 21, 2009, online edition, 7p
"The Obama Administration wanted to send a message with the President’s first nomination to a federal court. “There was a real conscious decision to use that first appointment to say, ‘This is a new way of doing things. This is a post-partisan choice,’” one White House official involved in the process told me. “Our strategy was to show that our judges could get Republican support.”"
Jeffrey Toobin, a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1993, writes about legal affairs.
Go to the article at:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/21/090921fa_fact_toobin
C15/06-09. Posted October 19, 2009
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