Civil Rights
Feb. 27, 2007
Speaker's Senior Counsel Exudes Experience
When the new Democratic speaker of the House hired veteran Washington lawyer Joseph Onek to be her senior counsel, legal experts saw it as a warning shot across the bow of the Bush administration. Onek, a veteran of the Carter and Clinton White Houses, is now Nancy Pelosi’s point man on a host of hotly contested legal issues.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
WASHINGTON - When new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., hired veteran Washington lawyer Joseph Onek last month to be her senior counsel, legal experts saw it as a warning shot across the bow of the Bush administration.
Onek, a veteran of the Carter and Clinton administrations, is no political lackey. He's a respected civil-liberties advoc...
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