Government
Jun. 13, 2007
Bush Isn’t the First to Go Around the Senate
Republicans are getting all the heat over firing and hiring of U.S. attorneys, but Democrats are no strangers to finding strategies to getting around Senate confirmation. Bill Lann Lee went from a leadership role in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in California to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division for the last three years of President Clinton’s administration despite the fact that the Republican-controlled Senate never voted on his nomination.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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WASHINGTON - The Bush administration angered Democratic senators earlier this year by trying to appoint U.S. attorneys without seeking Senate approval.
Critics described the strategy as an abuse of executive-branch authority.
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