Posted on 01/24/2008 10:58:00 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A far as legal-brained firepower goes, the chief beneficiary of Fred Thompson’s decision to pull out of the presidential race is Mitt Romney.
The Romney campaign Thursday announced that a host of conservative lawyers_and_scholars who were backing Thompson have joined the Romney camp.
Among them is Victoria Toensing, who made her mark as an anti-terrorism_policy-maker at the Justice Department during the Reagan administration. Toensing is joined by her husband (and fellow regular on the cable news circuit) Joseph diGenova, the former U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.
To date, Romney’s conservative legal cabal has been notable for the presence of Catholic_scholars such as Douglas Kmiec, the former dean of Catholic University and another Justice Department lawyer under Reagan, ostensibly because of the candidate’s anti-abortion position.
The Thompson diaspora diversifies his advisory group a bit, bringing along Justice Department officials who recently served in the George W. Bush administration, including Viet_Dinh, a leading architect of anti-terrorism department policy under John Ashcroft who is now a professor at Georgetown_University, and Rachel Brand and Noel Francisco, two more former high-level policymakers.
Also notable is Eugene Scalia, a former top lawyer at the Labor Department and son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Romney’s committee can go_toe-to-toe with Rudy Giuliani’s legal advisory group, which also consists of a variety of former high-level Justice_Department officials and conservative_scholars. The two candidates seem to have staked-out most of this particular field between them.
Such committees are instructive, not only to shine a light on the particular views held by the candidate, but also in terms of how he is likely to govern should he win election. The lawyers_and_advisers_involved are likely to be involved in transition teams that would supervise hiring at key positions across the executive branch. And many of them could end-up in high-level policymaking roles themselves.
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Yeah.
Ronald Reagan could come rise from the dead, tell us all to vote for Romney and I still won't support Myth for the nomination.
Again, I’m not supporting Mit Romney, just reporting what’s going on. Seems to me that we need a conservative party now that both mainline parties are liberal.
About what I figured.
10-4!
Bump, not surprised.
Among them is Victoria Toensing, who made her mark as an anti-terrorism_policy-maker at the Justice Department during the Reagan administration. Toensing is joined by her husband (and fellow regular on the cable news circuit) Joseph diGenova, the former U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.
Solid people.
Good news.
Will it make him a Conservative?
Loyalty is a commodity not automatically transferred.
Oh, there goes Romney, talking to his lawyers again. How awful. /sarc
I don’t care there are those like you! LOL
Sinse it is from Fred most likely the kind that defend Constitutional lawyers!
Look this is in the GOP forum imagine that!:
wow sanity prevails!
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