The Volokh Conspiracy - Now It's Their Turn:

The Washington Post reports that members of the American Constitution Society are likely to be as prominent in the Obama Administration as members of the Federalist Society were in parts of the Bush Administration.

Eric H. Holder Jr., an ACS board member, has been nominated to be attorney general. Executive Director Lisa Brown has been tapped to be White House staff secretary, a key slot that involves reviewing all documents that go before the president. Board member Teresa Wynn Roseborough has been prominently mentioned as a possibility for several jobs in the Obama administration, including solicitor general.

"What that means is that the organization's core function of developing and promulgating legal ideas and social policy will have a more receptive audience than it has had in the past eight years," said Paul M. Smith, a District lawyer who is chairman of the ACS board.

	[Jonathan Adler, December 7, 2008 at 10:47am] Trackbacks Now It's Their Turn: The Washington Post reports that members of the American Constitution Society are likely to be as prominent in the Obama Administration as members of the Federalist Society were in parts of the Bush Administration. Eric H. Holder Jr., an ACS board member, has been nominated to be attorney general. Executive Director Lisa Brown has been tapped to be White House staff secretary, a key slot that involves reviewing all documents that go before the president. Board member Teresa Wynn Roseborough has been prominently mentioned as a possibility for several jobs in the Obama administration, including solicitor general. "What that means is that the organization's core function of developing and promulgating legal ideas and social policy will have a more receptive audience than it has had in the past eight years," said Paul M. Smith, a District lawyer who is chairman of the ACS board.