was the whole Mukasey thing a smoke screen for this #2 guy?? Why would someone GIVE UP a LIFETIME appointment to serve the waning months of the most unpopular president in history?..What DOES this weasel have planned?? A lot of skulduggery can occur in a few months :grr:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/653595,CST-NWS-justice16.articleBush taps Chicago judge
JUSTICE DEPT. | Filip nominated for No. 2 position
November 16, 2007
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Staff Reporter apallasch@suntimes.com
President Bush on Thursday nominated Mark Filip, a federal judge in Chicago, to the No. 2 position in the U.S. Justice Department.
Filip, a Park Ridge native,
will trade his lifetime appointment to the federal bench for a chance to serve out the remainder of Bush's term.Though only 41, the Harvard Law School graduate has a reputation as a whiz kid.
Heads turned when Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, for whom Filip clerked, appeared in Chicago to swear Filip in when he was named to the bench.snip
Filip
had interviewed with former U.S. Sen. Peter Fitzgerald for the U.S. attorney's job that ultimately went to Patrick Fitzgerald. But the senator asked if he would be interested in a judgeship instead.
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If Filip is confirmed as deputy attorney general, two former federal jurists will hold the two top Justice Department jobs: Newly confirmed Attorney General Michael Mukasey is a retired district judge from Manhattan.
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Contributing: AP