It’s a Friday afternoon in June. Of course it couldn’t pass without a high-profile resignation. From WRAL: Mike Nifong made the announcement at the end of his testimony Friday at his State Bar ethics trial to the surprise of the families and defense attorneys of the cleared lacrosse players. “Throughout the years I have served […]
Department of Justice official Brad Schlozman — who currently serves as Associate Counsel to the Director, in the Executive Office for United States Attorneys — is about to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. His testimony is part of a panel entitled “Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing […]
Legal and operational leaders are gathering May 6–7 in Fort Lauderdale to confront the questions the industry hasn't answered—with a keynote from Amanda Knox setting the tone.
As you could probably tell from the results thus far in our reader polls, Georgia lawyer Andrew Speaker — the patient with drug-resistant tuberculosis, who engaged in extensive air travel despite knowing of his condition — hasn’t exactly endeared himself to the world. If you run a search for “Andrew Speaker” on Facebook, here’s what […]
Those of you who read our extensive liveblogging of Monica Goodling’s testimony on Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee know how deeply impressed we were. Goodling was poised, intelligent, and articulate. She showed flashes of wit, as well as consistent honesty and forthrightness. She looked like a million bucks. On a scale of 0 to […]
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BREAKING: Is the cool and collected Monica Goodling starting to crack, under the persistent and probing questioning of Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL)? Details after the jump (around the 3:25 mark). 3:08: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) employs a too-clever-by-half strategy to try and get Monica Goodling to say that Alberto Gonzales should be fired. It falls […]
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If congressional testimony over the U.S. Attorney firings were American Idol: Alberto Gonzales = Sanjaya Malakar D. Kyle Sampson = Blake Lewis Monica Goodling = Jordin Sparks Goodling is, far and away, the best Department of Justice witness to appear before Congress on the U.S. Attorney firings thus far. If one were to compare her […]
12:25: We’re back from that “five minute” recess. (They run a tighter ship over on the Senate side of the Hill.) 12:27: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee is up. This is gonna be GOOD. SJL is one of our favorite Capitol Hill divas — and she qualifies as a diva under even the most stringent definition […]
This is a continuation of our earlier post, in which we kicked off our liveblogging of the Monica Goodling testimony before the House Judiciary Committee. 11:00: Some friendly questioning from Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), Ranking Republican Member of the Judiciary Committee. We once sat next to him at a dinner party; he’s a very nice […]
The Democrats have gotten a lot of political mileage out of the U.S. Attorneys firing “scandal.” But their luck is about to run out. They never should have messed with the Magnificent Monica Goodling. We’re liveblogging the Monica Goodling’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, which is just getting underway. Our commentary will be added […]
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We have a new favorite catchphrase: “You have a Monica problem.” We’ve added it to our favorite quotations, and we may put it in our email signature file, too. As explained here, the words “You have a Monica problem” were typically uttered to Justice Department job applicants whose credentials might be deemed insufficiently conservative by […]
No, this has nothing to do with Bill Clinton. We’re talking about the other Monica — former Justice Department lawyer Monica Goodling, one of our favorite personalities here at ATL. Over the weekend, the New York Times published the best article we’ve read in a long, long time. Check it out (annotations ours): Now this […]
Even those of you who are sick and tired of our Monica Goodling coverage will enjoy this little tidbit. It has been mentioned by a few commenters, and we’ve also received a bunch of emails about it. From the National Journal (via TPMmuckraker): Psst! Sources tell us that none other than Monica Goodling, former aide […]
Yesterday we received some saddening and disturbing news. A reader emailed this article to us, with the tagline: “Not very diva-like.” (It was also recently linked to by Wonkette, in a post entitled When Whores Collide.) A former U.S. Justice Department official and central figure in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys tearfully told a […]
Apparently we weren’t the only ones who got blue balls from felt cheated by 20/20’s report last Friday on the alleged DC madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Professor Ann Althouse writes: Were you, like me duped into watching “20/20” last night to hear what names they’d name based on the big list forked over to them […]