Solicitor General Clement Says He Will Step Down

[maddezmom]

Source: WaPo

By Robert Barnes
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 15, 2008; Page A07

Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, a key advocate in court for the administration's counterterrorism policies, will resign from the Justice Department in early June, the department announced yesterday.

Clement, 41, has argued 49 cases before the Supreme Court on behalf of the government, including some of the most controversial since he was appointed in 2005. He has also represented the government in federal appeals court cases.

A former clerk to Justice Antonin Scalia, Clement has been a member of the Federalist Society and is well-known as a legal conservative, but he has also been praised by liberal justices on the Supreme Court. Clements's tenure has been marked by a willingness to find a position that attracts majority support, even if it means less emphasis on ideological stands.

Gun activists were upset with him earlier this year because of a brief he filed in the Second Amendment challenge of the District's handgun ban. Clement agreed with their position that the amendment affords an individual right to gun ownership, but said the lower-court ruling that struck the D.C. law was so broadly rendered that it endangered all federal gun control legislation. He urged the court to return the case for further review; it has not yet ruled.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/14/AR2008051403697.html

[Ian David]

1. Paul Clement is resigning to spend more time taking away guns with his family. n/t

January 26, 2008
U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement Says 2nd Amendment Can Be Restricted
http://cantontruth.blogspot.com/2008/01/us-solicitor-general-paul-d-clement.html

[ToughLuck]

2. Good bye pal...Federalist Horse Shit Society loonies.

[midnight]

3. Something tells me that with the Conyers after Rove, this

man might be involved too.