[2] Paul Clement: The young solicitor general is a bona fide legal star with impeccable conservative credentials — Federalist Society, clerkships with Judge Silberman and Justice Scalia, Kirkland & Ellis’s D.C. office, etc. In 2000, he worked hard on Bush v. Gore; after the election Solicitor General Ted Olson named Clement his deputy. He garners praise from both sides of the aisle as a “just-the-facts, just-the-law kind of guy,” in the words of Jim Comey.
[3] Jim Comey: The former deputy AG is now GC of Lockheed Martin. The Law Blog knows a handful of lawyers that worked for Comey when he served as U.S. Attorney in Manhattan. They rave about their former boss and remain fiercely loyal to him.
[4] Judge Laurence Silberman: Numerous Republicans have floated conservative D.C. Circuit Judge Silberman as a potential nominee, [5] including former Reagan DOJ official Bruce Fein.
[6] Patrick Fitzgerald: The WaPo’s Andrew Cohen said “Can you think of a better candidate to restore honor and integrity to the Justice Department than the man who just took on the White House, and won, with the perjury and obstruction trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby?”
[7] Michael Mukasey: Senator Schumer has floated Mukasey’s name as a potential Supreme Court nominee, so it’s no surprise he has also been tossing his name out there as an AG candidate. . The former chief judge of the SDNY stepped down from the bench last year to join Patterson Belknap .
[8] Chris Cox The SEC chair, former Congressman and ex-Latham & Watkins partner has his hands full at 100 F Street, NE.
[9] Larry Thompson: The former deputy AG is now GC of Pepsi. Thompson is widely respected, but his name is forever associated with the “Thompson Memo,” his 2003 memo outlining DOJ policy on corporate criminal prosecutions which became shorthand for prosecutorial abuse. It was recently revised with the release of the “McNulty Memo.”
[10] Ted Olson: The conservative luminary always comes up when high-level Bush administration legal posts become available.
[11] Michael Luttig: The former Fourth Circuit judge is now the GC of Boeing, having stepped down from the bench last year.
The two names that will be crossed off the clown's list since both of them didn't serve at the 'pleasure of the President':
Other possible candidates that should been never put on the list:
And who stuck Gut Feeling Chertoff's name on the list for possibilites giving his lousy job as head of DHS?
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From your list I'd say T willger or old man Hatch. Pat is to honest and clean to be part of the dirt filt team. Remember if he got the job the cloud over Cheney's head would be found out. Pat would turn the White House over to the Jail.
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