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Bill Clinton Warns Arkansas Democrats to Beware of Karl Rove Politics
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyLITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Former President Bill Clinton swung through Arkansas this week for a handful of campaign stops in his home state, taking a few hard-hitting swings at Republican opponents who are attacking his old friends running for office. On Thursday morning, Clinton joined 2nd Congressional District candidate Joyce Elliott for a rally in a historic ballroom in downtown Little Rock. If elected, Elliott, who is a retired school teacher and state senator, would become Arkansas' first black member of Congress. Elliott needs all the help she can get. She trails her Republican opponent, ...
Fired Bush-Era U.S. Attorneys to Speak in Arkansas; Some in GOP Question Timing
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyFive former U.S. attorneys are gathering in Little Rock, Ark., on Monday to discuss a mutual, and curious, political past. All of them were fired by the Bush administration during 2006-07. The controversy erupted when officials of George W. Bush's White House and Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department fired nine U.S. attorneys in midterm. All of them had been appointed by the Bush administration. The unusual nature of the firings created suspicion that the government lawyers were sacked because they didn't see eye-to-eye ideologically with the White House. The reasons are myriad but include ...
Justice Officials Gird for Legal Battles Over Immigration, Health, Drilling
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyA huge week looms for the Justice Department, but then again it's already been a remarkably busy and contentious summer for Attorney General Eric Holder and his legions of government lawyers. From Michigan to Arizona to Florida to California and nearly everywhere else in between, Justice officials have been forced in intemperate political conditions -- heat and humidity, and loads of hot air -- to try to put out brush fires that scorch all along the partisan legal divide, from immigration to health care to terror trials. In the next day or so, for example, the feds will learn whether U.S. ...
Justice Ends Bush-Era U.S. Attorney Scandal With a Whimper, Not a Prosecution
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyThe Justice Department's two-year investigation of Bush administration officials involved in the U.S. attorney scandal of 2006-2007 ended curiously last week amid the shouting over Shirleygate, and only the stoutest of major media outlets much noticed or marked the ignoble occasion. Surely, you remember the U.S. attorney scandal. It occurred when officials at George W. Bush's White House and Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department fired (unusually, in midterm) eight successful, Republican-appointed U.S. attorneys. The circumstances gave rise to suspicions, and later circumstantial evidence, that ...
Washington Post: Karl Rove Mischaracterized His Role in Attorney Firings
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyWhen the dust settled after the Bush administration's firing of U.S. attorneys in 2006 that resulted eventually in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigning, Karl Rove painted his own role as a middleman who just passed messages along. Now, Rove is delivering testimony on the firings behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, after a protracted legal battle over whether he would need to testify at all. And The Washington Post reports that Rove's role was greater than he previously suggested, according to emails it obtained and interviews with key participants. Says the Post:In an ...
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