http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/011BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG
Mark Karlin, Editor and Publisher, BuzzFlash.com
November 26, 2007
All you had to know about the newly nominated second in command at the Justice Department, the Deputy Attorney General to AG Mukasey, is the final paragraph of a November 16 Chicago Tribune article: "After clerking for
Scalia, Filip returned to Chicago rather than stay in Washington and pursue the kind of career track that traditionally leads to a choice government appointment. He did, however, work as a volunteer Republican vote counter in Florida during the 2000 election recount."
Filip, who is currently a federal judge in the Northern Illinois District (Scalia swore him in), was appointed in 2004 to the bench by George W. Bush. And, as we recently noted in a series on Republican judicial appointments, they don’t put "freelancers" on the bench, just reliable partisan judges.
Also worthy of note in the Tribune article is this statement: "As a contender for the deputy job, it couldn't have hurt Filip that one of his close friends is Paul Clement, the U.S. solicitor general, and a rising legal star. Filip and Clement are part of a network of former Scalia clerks who keep in touch."
Good grief, it’s the Federalist Society cabal run amuck! ...We’d like to know more about Filip’s stint as a "volunteer Republican vote counter in Florida during the 2000 election recount," but do we really need to?...I think it’s safe to say that we’ve already connected the dots, and what we’ve got is someone who, once again, is a product of the Federalist Society – whether he is personally a member or not -- soldiers in the jurist army of the GOP.
Maybe the White House put Filip as second in command at the DOJ to watch over Mukasey...
Are you getting the full picture now?
We are.