Scalia's Son Endorses Romney; Lots Of Fred-Heads Re-Camp

John McCain is earning more establishment endorsements these days, but prominent Republican lawyers -- a big part of that Capital "E" Establishment --, for the most part, are briefing someone else:

Eugene Scalia, son of Justice Antonin Scalia and a former chief lawyer for the labor department, has been neutral in the presidential race until today. He's now aboard Lawyers for Romney, and joining him are about a dozen prominent Republican lawyers who, until Monday, had been supporters of Fred Thompson.

Other big names include Rachel Brand, the former associate attorney general under Alberto Gonazles, Viet Dihn, another former senior Bush administration attorney, and the ubiquitous Victoria Toensing and Joseph DiGenova.

Check the jump for a full listing. Many of the names played large roles in the confirmation of Justices Alito and Roberts.

New Members Of The Advisory Committee On The Constitution And The Courts:

* Lizette D. Benedi – Counsel, Bancroft Associates; Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush; Lawyers for Fred National Steering Committee.

* James F. Blackstock – Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Shoney's Restaurant Company; Former Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, CBRL Group, Inc.

* Rachel L. Brand – Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, United States Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush; Former Law Clerk, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States; Lawyers for Fred National Steering Committee.

* Reginald J. Brown – Partner, WilmerHale; Former Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel to President George W. Bush; Former Deputy General Counsel to Florida Governor Jeb Bush; Lawyers for Fred National Steering Committee.

* Daniel Collins – Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP; Former Associate Deputy Attorney General, Office of the Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush; Former Law Clerk, Justice Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States; Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Central District of California; Former Attorney Advisor, Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice; Lawyers for Fred California Co-Chair.

* Charles J. Cooper – Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC; Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice, for President Ronald Reagan; Former Law Clerk, then-Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States; Lawyers for Fred National Steering Committee.

* Professor George Dent – Schott-van den Eynden Professor, Case Western Law School; Director, National Association of Scholars; President, Ohio Association of Scholars; Former Law Clerk, Judge Paul R. Hays, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

* Joseph E. diGenova – Partner, diGenova & Toensing; Former Chief Counsel and Staff Director, Senate Rules Committee; Former Counsel, Senate Judiciary, Governmental Affairs and Select Intelligence Committees; Former United States Attorney, District of Columbia; Lawyers for Fred Maryland Chair.

* Professor Michael R. Dimino – Associate Professor of Law, Widener Law School; Former Chief Clerk, Judge Albert M. Rosenblatt, New York State Court of Appeals; Former Law Clerk, Judge Laurence H. Silberman, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Former Law Clerk, Judge Paul L. Friedman, United States District Court for the District of Columbia; Lawyers for Fred Pennsylvania Co-Chair and Legal Professors Committee.

* Viet D. Dinh – Principal, Bancroft Associates; Professor of Law and Co-Director of Asian Law & Policy Studies, Georgetown University Law Center; Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, United States Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush; Former Law Clerk, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Supreme Court of the United States; Lawyers for Fred National Steering Committee.

* Noel J. Francisco – Partner, Jones Day; Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush; Former Law Clerk, Justice Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States; Lawyers for Fred Steering Committee.

* Professor Jimmy Gurule – Professor, Notre Dame Law School; Former Undersecretary for Enforcement, United States Department of Treasury, for President George W. Bush; Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, United States Department of Justice, for President George H.W. Bush.

* Richard D. Klingler – Partner, Sidley Austin LLP; Former Senior Associate White House Counsel to President George W. Bush; Former General Counsel and Legal Adviser, National Security Council; Former Law Clerk to Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Supreme Court of the United States, and to Judge Kenneth W. Starr, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

* Professor Grant S. Nelson – William H. Rehnquist Professor of Law, Pepperdine University; Former Commissioner, National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.

* Eileen J. O'Connor – Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; Former Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, United States Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush; Lawyers for Fred National Steering Committee.

* Thomas R. Phillips – Partner, Baker Botts; Former Chief Justice, Texas Supreme Court; Former President, Conference of Chief Justices.

* Eugene Scalia – Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; Former Solicitor of Labor, United States Department of Labor; Former Special Assistant, United States Attorney General William P. Barr; Former Aide, United States Education Secretary William J. Bennett.

* Victoria Toensing – Partner, diGenova & Toensing; Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, United States Department of Justice, for President Ronald Reagan; Former Chief Counsel, United States Senator Barry Goldwater; National Co-Chair of Lawyers for Fred National Steering Committee.

Previously Announced Members Of The Advisory Committee On The Constitution And The Courts:

* Committee Chair Douglas W. Kmiec – Caruso Family Chair & Professor of Constitutional Law, Pepperdine University; Former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice.

* Bradford A. Berenson – Partner, Sidley Austin LLP; Former Associate White House Counsel to President George W. Bush; Former Law Clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Laurence H. Silberman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; Chairman, The Federalist Society, Executive Committee of the Criminal Law and Procedure Practice Group.

* Elliot S. Berke – General Counsel, Barbour Griffith & Rogers and Of Counsel, McGahn & Associates; Former Counsel to the Speaker of the House; Former General Counsel to the House Majority Leader.

* Michelle Boardman – Assistant Professor, George Mason School of Law; Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush.

* James Bopp, Jr. – Partner, Bopp, Coleson & Bostrom; General Counsel for the James Madison Center for Free Speech; Special Adviser on Life Issues to Governor Mitt Romney.

* Jamie Brown – Principal, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti; Former Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs and Acting Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush.

* Allen Ferrell – Greenfield Professor of Securities Law, Harvard Law School; Former Law Clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States and Judge Laurence Silberman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

* D. Cameron Findlay – Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Aon Corporation; Former Deputy Secretary of Labor for President George W. Bush; Deputy Assistant to President George H. W. Bush; Former Law Clerk to Justice Antonin G. Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States.

* Timothy Flanigan – Former General Counsel, Corporate and International Law, Tyco International; Former Deputy White House Counsel to President George W. Bush; Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, for President George H.W. Bush; Former Law Clerk, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, Supreme Court of the United States.

* Tom Gede – Principal, Bingham Consulting Group; Former Executive Director, Conference of Western Attorneys General; Former Deputy Attorney General, California Attorney General's Office.

* Allyson Ho – Associate, Baker Botts; Former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Counselor to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft; Former Law Clerk, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Supreme Court of the United States.

* James Huffman – Erskine Wood Sr. Professor of Law (and former Dean), Lewis & Clark Law School; Former Chairman, The Federalist Society, Executive Committee of the Environment and Property Rights Practice Group.

* Jay Jorgensen – Partner, Sidley Austin LLP; Former Law Clerk, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States, and then-Judge Samuel Alito, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

* Christopher Landau – Partner and Head of the Appellate Litigation Practice Group, Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Former Law Clerk, Justices Antonin G. Scalia and Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States.

* David G. Leitch – General Counsel, Ford Motor Company; Former Deputy White House Counsel to President George W. Bush; Former Law Clerk, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States.

* Wendy Long – Chief Counsel, Judicial Confirmation Network; Former Law Clerk, Justice Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court of the United States.

* Gary L. McDowell – Tyler Haynes Professor of Leadership Studies, Political Science, and Law in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond; Former Chief Speech Writer to Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III.

* Mark D. Nielsen – Vice President, Legal, Raytheon Corporation; Former Chief of Staff and Chief Legal Counsel to Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney.

* Howard C. Nielson, Jr. – Of Counsel, Cooper & Kirk; Former Counsel to U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft; Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush; Former Law Clerk, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, Supreme Court of the United States, and former Judge J. Michael Luttig, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

* Stephen Presser – Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University School of Law.

* Kristi Remington – Principal, Blank Rome Government Relations LLC; Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Policy, U.S. Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush.

* Gene Schaerr – Partner and Chair of the Nationwide Appellate Litigation Group, Winston & Strawn LLP; Former Associate White House Counsel to President George H. W. Bush; Former Law Clerk, Chief Justice Warren Burger and Justice Antonin G. Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States, and to former Judge Kenneth W. Starr, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit; Chairman, Constitutional Sources Project.

* Jay Sekulow – Constitutional Law and Supreme Court Advocate.

* Bradley A. Smith – Professor of Law, Capital University Law; Of Counsel, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease; Former Chairman, Federal Election Commission.

* Matthew Spalding – Director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies, The Heritage Foundation.

* Jay B. Stephens – Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Raytheon Company; Former Deputy White House Counsel to President Ronald Reagan; Former Associate Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, for President George W. Bush; Former United States Attorney for the District Of Columbia for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.

* Richard K. Willard – Partner, Steptoe & Johnson LLP; Former Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, for President Ronald Reagan; Former Law Clerk, Justice Harry Blackmun, Supreme Court of the United States, and then-Judge Anthony M. Kennedy, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Comments

McCain looks to have a ceiling of support in Florida. The latest poll (Mason-Dixon) has Romney up 30% to 26%. Not a big lead, yes, but McCain has big stuck at 25% in all the polls he has been leading in as well. It seems that he is unable to break out of that range -- and that most uncommitted voters are not leaning towards McCain at all but looking to join a more conservative candidate. Check out the analysis of this range issue here

Posted by Daniel | January 24, 2008 2:59 PM

Good points Daniel. It'll be interesting to see what happens at debate tonight

Posted by Andrew | January 24, 2008 3:26 PM

It looks like the conservative base is rallying around Romney as the best shot to beat McCain. From the looks of the polls in Florida, it looks like they'll do it too.

Posted by Mike | January 24, 2008 3:27 PM

Fred had an amazingly good set of policy briefs on his website. That Romney was able to get almost all Fred's braintrust to join him speaks volumes about how they all saw Romney as a legitimate conservative, and John McCain as the true, authentic one.

None joined Huckabee, it seems. While there are some aspects I like about Pastor Huck, most notably his ability to connect and his great comedic timing - I fell into line with others that he is more a Christian Socialist than a conservative.

Supposedly, his big thing for tonight's debate is going to be about Romney cutting some people's jobs as he restructured and salvaged some companies and redirected some Startup's labor staffing.

Well, duh! Any reorg, even if it is a spectacular success and grows payroll and profits 3X in five years, will involve some jobs going away as others are added. I don't know what Huckabee's reasoning is other than populist demogoguery. What does he expect? Soviet-style lifetime employment?

What exactly is Hucks messsage? That he will go to Washington to clean up government but never cut a government job?

Posted by chris ford | January 24, 2008 4:19 PM

Whoops! Accidently leaving out one word does change a whole lot.
Add in bold That Romney was able to get almost all Fred's braintrust to join him speaks volumes about how they all saw Romney as a legitimate conservative, and NOTJohn McCain, as the true, authentic one.

And if Romney takes Florida, those Fred advisors, some of the best, no longer chained to a napping, grouchy John McCain wingman but an energetic candidate...will greatly benefit Romney in the rest of the campaign.

Posted by chris ford | January 24, 2008 4:35 PM

Huckabee's continued attempts to try and beat Romney up for being a successful business man (i.e. blame him for people losing jobs) is either ignorant or disingenuous. Sometimes jobs have to be cut in order to save companies and get them on track for future growth and prosperity. How many jobs were created when Romney set Staples, Dominoes, Sports Authority, Brookstone, etc. up for future success? Staples alone had no employees when Romney got involved. It now employs 52,302 people (according to Fortune). If Huckabee wanted to give Romney a vote for each job created by the companies he influenced and take a vote for each job lost, I think Romney would make the trade.

Posted by Sean | January 24, 2008 5:47 PM

Conservatives are coalescing around Mitt's candidacy. McCain and Giuliani are going to split the smaller moderate vote in Florida, leaving Mitt to dominate the larger conservative vote there. Tonight's debate will help this process along. Mitt won big.

Posted by Dave | January 25, 2008 12:59 AM

Huckabee is a spoiler to grab Mitt's cultural conservative votes. Thompson is ideologically compatible with Mitt and his supporters are certainly welcome by all us Romney supporters.

Mitt will take Florida but looking at Super Tuesday polls he's 10-15 points back of Mccain and Huckabee in several states.....we need a win in Florida to generate enough momentum to turn states like NY, NJ, PA, CAL,Georgia, etc....

Mitt's the first candidate I've been fired up about since Reagan. We're fortunate a successful real world private sector quality person as Mitt is willing to take the arrows coming with being a candidate to help our country get back on the right track. I see this as really a community service endeavor undertaken by Mitt as he cares about the country and mankind. God Bless him.

Bill

Posted by Bill | January 25, 2008 8:05 PM

I went to see McCain when he came to Palm Beach in 2000. At the close up range of about five feet he looked like a pasty albino with a phony grin. I left the event early when he lost control to veterans complaining about their benefits. I've seen a lot of pols up- close, and they are not impressive.

I noticed yesterday that Romney is getting a nice tan in Florida while McCain isn't.

Posted by Claire W Solt, PhD | January 27, 2008 9:16 AM

Your correspondent, has been homeless for over twenty years because the plans for the creation of Global Plantation Economy Market Systems, including provision for salaried employment for women, serving the functioning systems of such global consumer product design, manufacturing, advertising, and distribution systems, was prepared to participate in the jettisoning of your correspondent, as had been the California Legal 'system', in the County of Los Angeles, and State of California.

Alas, the proliferation of and contributions to the noble Non-Profit-Sector, is but a fascist
'mask' designed to employee women, and their Marxist keepers, so that, as with the psychiatric trade, more than a half century ago, substantial consumer spending could be funneled into the new Global Plantation Manufacturing Economies, proliferating throughout the earth.

Certainly the business acumen of Mr. Romney, fits well into the scale of income flowing to the vast array of business executives, and such is part of the Global Equity Market structure designed to finance the further expansion of the Plantation Economy Markets, whewrein laborers have no recourse, because neighboring plantations will gladly, having proliferated so exceptionally, step in and take up the work, and walk on bravery of the workers taking leave to demand that such manufacturing regions invest in the building of community infrastructures which may serve to design futures for each child, whether male or female, and whether figuratively a future worker, or a saint.

Your endorsement of Mr. Romney, whose pedigree is beyond question, as far as elitism may reach, as it were, reveals that your free expression perch may be nothing more than a Stalinist or Nazi beach lounge, destined to 'reside' among the Hotel Chain Venues scattered, premeditatedly, throughout the global travel regions, invariably sited contiguous to the overseas development of manufacturing reions; wherein, conscripted labor, Hitler's dream, is consigned to produce the materials, viz a viz consumer and entertainment value products, which become the foundation for the profits of advertisers, distributors, and local and federal government coffers; a day dream of Hitler's armies from south of the border who are flooding across the border, to enjoy being 'resplendant' consumers of the entertainment value enterprises exporting their goods to the 'consumer based economies.

The future of America, viz a viz Hitler's Harvard publishing Institute, whose lawyers selected an antebellum conscript to publish its law journal, oand/or nominated a Madonna-Want-to-be, from the southern states.

It is clear that America's battle is to completely arrest, our own, as well as other would-be the consuming nations' indigenous lusts to control distribution within their regions, such as in the mideast, where for example Iraqui's murder each other for the seminal authority to gain financially fom the consumer product post production market economy.

Senator McCain, and other post second world war warriors, who witnesssed Japan and South Korea, as surrogate Nazi manufacturers, become the global jumping platform for the transfer of Manufacturing to the Plantation Economies, at the end of the last century, as well as Vietnam veterans; some from south of the border, appreciate that from Africa, to Southeast Asia, where 1.7 million people were killed in Cambodia, in the 1970s to clear the way for Plantation economy "privatized' Infrastructures to be built for manufacturing, all know too well that America will not elect a leader who would have found satisfaction in acquiring vast riches, by patently supporting the obvious development of the threatening Global Plantation Economy model, through the contemporaneous structuring of consuming nation Equity Markets, primed through the Urban Development values inherent in building to meet the needs of a Global financial system designed to facilitate the assembly of natural resourses, and manufacturing capacity necessary to produce he consumer products which will flow into the hands of the Antebellum Nazi communities, in Europe, in the mid east, from south of our border, and within.
Below is a portion of a Motion just filed in california Supreme court case no. S159704, which is currently pending before the Caliiforia Supreme Court;

"Petitioner will forwith seek permission of the Court to Compel other Intersted Parties to intervene, for purposes of declaring, via suitable written instuments, in the nature of certiorari, that such parties have at no time, respecting either Respondent Jack Robert Siegel, or respecting the properties of Petitioner in El Segundo, involved in the instantly concerned proceedings, hereinabove referenced in the Caption hereof, {California Supreme Court cases numbers CASE NOS S 157649 , DECIDED , NOVEMBER 28 2007, S 156994 . DECIDED NOVEMBER 14, 2007 AND S 156308 , DECIDED OCTOBER 17, 2007} taken, complicit, with one or another, or others, predicate acts designed to encourage Respondent Jack Robert Siegel, to instigate the herein reviewed Quiet Title Proceedings in the Torrance Superior Court, or designed such Anti Trust and Civil Racketeering Conspiracy Campaigns, executed through contact with officials of the City of El Segundo, as such contacts may have been utilized by officers of the City of El Segundo to so incline Real Party In Interest Jack Robert Siegel, to commence and instigate Quiet Title proceedings, secretly, and fraudulently, without notice to Patitioner in the original proceeding, as discussed in the case of Board of Port proceeding, Comm'rs v. Williams, 9 Cal. 2d 381, pertaining to the seminal autonomy of influence being effected, singularly by the Infrastructure Administrating Office Real estate combines, in the United States and in other domestically active in California, "Global Regions,"; Designated Interested Parties heretofore identified in these proceedings, including, but not limited to The Thomas property Group; McQuire Properties; Crescent resources, etc; and Charles E. Smith Companies, now owned by further Interested Party Vornado, in California Enterprise investment in San Francisco, with Urban Developer Donald Trump.'

Because Petitioner has pleaded the germane and probative association of such economic real estate interests represented in Harvard's Advisory Bodies of Academic prowess, or otherwise, as private Real Esate concerns, the designation of the referenced heretofore Unserved Real Parties in Interest, are sought to be made Interested parties, by issuance of an order of the California Supreme Court 'mandating' that such identified parties, in the nature of Certiorari, and in support of a Declaratory Relief Cause of Action reveal their control of the subject properties of Petitioner, George Roger Siegel, by one or more of the Interested parties, under ,and by, or through the influence of the City of El Segundo."

Please be aware that America may be called upon to assme control of all global petroleum producion, as is now controlled in Iraq, as wwell as all natural rexourse devlopment and utilization globally, and if the US Military must be so mobilized, rather than America's lawyers, who in the 1970's jettisoned your correspondent because he sought to 'take-over' Contingency Litigation, so as to roll over the attorney fees into constructive and office staff designed global and provincial uses. then so be it, from one side of the world, to the 'next.

Sincerely, George Roger Siegel, Esquire
Member of US Supreme Court bar, and a party docketing these issues in the US Supreme Court

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Posted by daiana | February 26, 2008 3:47 PM