Perhaps the Devil Hillary made her do it.
Posted on 11/28/2008 11:40:23 AM PST by jessduntno
Top Obama Counsel Unlawfully Blocked Judge’s Confirmation
The new director of the White House Domestic Policy Council was a top congressional aide who unlawfully obstructed a federal judge’s confirmation in order to influence a high-profile affirmative action case.
Barack Obama’s pick (Melody Barnes) to head the highly influential office masterminded the scandalous scheme while she served as Senator Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel on the Judiciary Committee in 2002. Barnes successfully delayed the confirmation of President George W. Bush’s judicial nominee to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to influence the court’s ruling on an affirmative action case involving University of Michigan law school students.
In memos obtained by the media, Barnes directs Senator Kennedy to hold off on any 6th Circuit nominee until the University of Michigan case regarding the constitutionality of affirmative action in higher education is decided. Recognizing the impropriety of a delay for that purpose, one of the memos states that if a new judge with conservative views is confirmed before the case is decided, that new judge will be able to review the case and vote on it.
The judge, Julia Gibbons, was eventually confirmed a few months after the court ruled 5-4 to uphold Michigan’s affirmative action program. At the time Judicial Watch filed an ethics complaint with the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Ethics against Kennedy.
Now the woman who orchestrated the illegal and unethical plot will serve as the next president’s top adviser in a wide range of crucial issues, including education, health, criminal justice and labor. The Domestic Policy Council was created by executive order in 1993 and officially includes the cabinet secretaries and administrators of key federal agencies that affect domestic issues.
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She is a perfect fit for Barky, unethical, dishonest, sneaky. They will get along well.
Perhaps the Devil Hillary made her do it.
More Clinton retreads.
How is this change, much less change anyone with an honest bone in their body can believe in?
You know, if I were Michelle, and looked like Michelle, I think I’d start asking some questions about why my almost-President elect husband was choosing nice looking black women to positions where he’ll need to see them on a regular basis.
So far I am completely unimpressed with Obama’s choices for cabinet members.
They’re all prior Clinton appointments for the most part and some of them in particular Eric Holder are real sleazeballs. Holder was instrumental and approved the Marc Rich pardon and also the FALN terrorist clemencies. Holder has no ethics at all and should not be confirmed as attorney general and I hope there are still some uncorrupt folks in Washington with the guts to stand firm against his appointment. Surely there is a far better choice to be made here and Obama should not resort to cronyism for any of his appointments especially the ones with enormous amounts of political baggage like Holder and Clinton )in order for Hillary to be confirmed, it should be mandated that Bill be made full disclosure of his foreign associations and assets and how deep he is indebted to them.
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