The Just-Nominated Second in Command at the DOJ Helped Bush Steal Florida in 2000 and Clerked Under

Demeter

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The Just-Nominated Second in Command at the DOJ Helped Bush Steal Florida in 2000 and Clerked Under

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/011

BUZZFLASH 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.

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demnan

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Mon Nov-26-07 09:58 AM
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1. The Justice Department is systematically doing the "Florida"

throughout the country with the help of these stooges. And Democrats want to avoid impeachment because it might effect an almost certain win in the Presidential election? Yeah, right.

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Mon Nov-26-07 10:08 AM
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2. Please Nancy Pelois & Steny Hoyer are gonna send some letters

And Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Schummer will shake their heads in
disapproval.

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Mon Nov-26-07 10:10 AM
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3. I find myself thinking about the election thefts nearly every day.

Edited on Mon Nov-26-07 10:23 AM by higher class

Dem leaders are nowhere since Conyers concluded his hearings?

Can ANYONE report ANY progress coming out of the Fed House and Senate?

I hear people spending all their energy on discussing candidates? Candidates who have never opened their mouth to speak about vote theft?

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Mon Nov-26-07 10:55 AM
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4. Not getting the picture are Feinstein and Schumer.

WH nominates "movement conservatives" to top positions at DOJ. Mukasey is irrelevant.

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For Deputy Attorney General, the number two slot: Mark R. Filip. He has a long record of political engagement in electoral trenches for the Republican Party (as the Chicago Tribune reports, he volunteered to work on the Bush-Cheney Florida vote litigation in 2000, for instance). He served as Vice President of the Federalist Society chapter at his law school. He clerked for Antonin Scalia and is close to Solicitor General Paul Clement. Critics of the Bush Justice Department regularly cite a secret subterranean network of former clerks of three judges (Scalia, Thomas and Silberman) who are highly partisan political ideologues, and who routinely shape policy and decisions outside of the formal channels of bureaucratic communication.

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