Politics
Who Are the Lawyers Behind the Presidential Bids?
Posted Nov 26, 2007, 02:14 pm CDT
By Molly McDonough
The leading presidential candidates didn't want to reveal their LSAT scores, but many, especially Republicans, were eager to share the names of their legal advisers.
Slate.com's Emily Bazelon tried to see who did best on the LSAT, Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. She struck out.
On the question of lawyers for the teams, however, she reported the following lineups. Clinton reportedly didn't get back to her.
- -- Ted Olson, former solicitor general
- -- Miguel Estrada, former assistant SG and failed appeals court nominee
- -- Steven Calabresi, one of the Federalist Society founders
- -- Larry Thompson, former deputy attorney general
- -- Maureen Mahoney, former deputy SG
- -- Ron Rotunda of George Mason University
- -- Walter Olson of the Manhattan Institute
- -- Eugene Volokh, of Volokh Conspiracy fame and a prof at UCLA
- -- Jonathan Adler of Case Western Reserve University
- -- Orin Kerr of George Washington University
- -- Todd Zywicki of George Mason University
- -- Victoria Toensing, former counsel to Barry Goldwater
- -- Doug Kmiec, of Pepperdine University
- -- Mary Ann Glendon, of Harvard University
- -- Bradford Berenson, former associate White House counsel for President Bush
- -- Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice
- -- James Bopp Jr., general counsel for the James Madison Center for Free Speech
- -- Julius Chambers, former director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund
- -- Elizabeth Warren of Harvard University
- -- Scott Harshbarger, former Massachusetts AG
- -- Peggy McGuinness of the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law
- -- Allen Weiner of Stanford University Law School
- -- Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago
- -- Laurence Tribe of Harvard University
- -- Eric Holder former deputy AG in the Clinton administration
- -- Geoffrey Stone of the University of Chicago
- -- Christopher Edley of the University of California, Berkeley
- -- Gary Feinerman, former Illinois solicitor general
- -- Judith Gold of Perkins Coie
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Posted by J.D. - 7 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 22 hours, 18 minutes ago
Hillary hides more than she discloses. It’s getting a little old.
Posted by j-bone - 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 44 minutes ago
What about frontrunner Ron Paul’s attorneys....I"m an Attorney and I support him.....stop the blacklisting! Ron Paul 2008!
Posted by Simon - 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes ago
since when was ron paul a front runner?
Posted by S. Aschemann - 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 10 hours, 59 minutes ago
Who cares about the LSAT score of someone who graduated from law school and started their professional career? My employer out of law school was, not surprisingly, more concerned about my performance in law school than my LSAT score - in fact it never sought my LSAT score.
Posted by Jennifer - 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 10 hours, 30 minutes ago
I too wonder what happened to Ron Paul’s attorneys. Perhaps nobody asked.
Posted by Elf - 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes ago
And what about the attorneys who support frontrunner Dennis Kucinich? Stop the blacklisting! Kucinich/Gravel 2008!
Posted by David - 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 7 hours, 31 minutes ago
Lawyers are interesting to lawyers. I would like to know who the candidates//nominee for each party would appoint as Secxretaries of State, War, Health, Homeland Security and Attorney General or, at the very least, who their advisers are in these areas.
Posted by Theia - 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes ago
Interesting that you said “...many, especially Republicans, were eager to share the names of their legal advisers,” when 2 of the 5 listed were Democrats. I guess 3 out of 5 constitutes “many”?
Posted by Tired of Propaganda - 7 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
"Hillary hides more than she discloses. It’s getting a little old.”
Anyone with this sentiment must be truly exhausted after 7 years of the republican Bush administration…