Bush Promotes Whitewater Deputies

Bush Promotes Whitewater Deputies

Liberals Angry As Starr Aides Tapped for Posts
By AMI EDEN
FORWARD STAFF

Despite President Bush's campaign pledge to heal the country's divisions over Clinton-era controversies, the administration has been doling out top legal posts to former deputies of Kenneth Starr and other conservative lawyers who helped fuel the Clinton impeachment effort.

The president is reportedly set to offer a seat on the nation's second most important court to Associate White House Counsel Brett Kavanaugh, an author of the "Starr Report" on President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Kavanaugh, who would be at least the fourth Starr deputy to be nominated to the federal bench, is being criticized by liberal groups for what they describe as his past support for "ultra-conservative legal causes" and efforts to promote Bush's "most controversial judicial nominees."

Another Starr deputy, Karin Immergut, has been tapped by Bush to fill the post of U.S. attorney in Oregon. A former special prosecutor in Starr's office, Immergut questioned Monica Lewinsky under oath about her blue dress and other intimate details of her relationship with Clinton.

In addition to nominating former Starr deputies to federal posts, Bush has filled other top legal positions with right-wing lawyers who helped organize private lawsuits and media attacks against Clinton and aided the independent counsel's investigation. Liberal critics argue that these lawyers, including the current solicitor general, Theodore Olson, were motivated by more than an intense dislike for Clinton — they also wanted to pave the way for a conservative revolution in the courts.

"Clearly their goal was not just to unseat the president," said Nan Aron, president of the Alliance for Justice, a coalition of more than 60 organizations that often opposes conservative judicial nominees. "They thought if they forced Clinton out of office, they would be able to dismantle not only a presidency, but the framework that has been established since the New Deal to protect workers, consumers, the environment and women."

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Kenny $tarr himself will be Bush Jr's first Supreme Court nominee.

You can take that to the bank. Or to Neil Bush's Savings & Loan.

started with the judiciary under Reagan 20 years ago. Completely under everyone's radar and it has been extremely successful.

between Team Bush (both 41 and 43) and the rightwing cabal that relentlessly pursued, harassed, slandered and indeed persecuted the Clintons is well documented in Sidney Blumenthal's book. These were/are the people behind the puppet and they HAD to have power one way or another. They are reaping their rewards now so it's no surprise that Starr warriors would be promoted. It's all so sickening!