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...recess appointment, which some liberals urged, was out of the question, according to the White House official. Such an appointment sidestepping an up-or-down floor vote would have made Johnsen's goal to depoliticize the Office of Legal Counsel impossible "and would have led to partisan debates over its legal opinions regardless of their quality," the official says...
...We’re trying to promote civic engagement in a non-partisan way,” said Elizabeth J. Newton ’11, the IOP Community Action Committee Chair who has been working on Census outreach this semester...
...father believed that a commitment to conservation transcended the partisan divide. He dreamed that a commitment to conservation could bring this country together again...
...partisan institution, the board of the Law School’s corporate governance forum does not take positions on current issues...
...both nominations. When Southers withdrew, the White House issued a statement quoting him saying that his desire to serve "has been obstructed by political ideology." To be sure, the poisonous atmosphere on Capitol Hill has made it necessary for any candidate to be bulletproof in order to withstand partisan scrutiny. But it's clear that, despite the Obama Administration's reputation for scrubbing its candidates before nominating them, there appears to have been poor vetting in both these cases. "In this politically toxic environment, it only takes one thing to derail a nomination," says Richard Cooper, a former Department...