Paul Clement to Return to Role as Full-Time SG
on Sep 17, 2007 at 11:52 am
The President today announced that Peter Keisler, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, will be Acting Attorney General until the Senate confirms Judge Mukasey. According to the President, this is in order to allow Paul Clement to concentrate on his duties as Solicitor General.
Full disclosure: Peter is an old friend; indeed, he was one of my note editors back in the mid-1980s. It will come as no surprise that we do not agree on a great range of political and jurisprudential questions — and, of course, I have taken issue with arguments in several briefs that Peter has signed as head of the Civil Division. But notwithstanding all that, I can vouch that Peter is an attorney of great skill, judgment, integrity and fair-mindedness; I am confident he will make a superlative Acting Attorney General.
