Biden names former Alito clerk to top White House job

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Joe Biden on Tuesday added a slew of top staffers to his White House team with sterling Democratic credentials. But one of his appointments has a line on her resume that would also make Republicans proud: Onetime clerk to Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.

Dana Remus, who most recently served as general counsel to the Biden campaign, will become counsel to the president in the new administration. Before joining the campaign, Remus worked as the General Counsel of the Obama Foundation, and as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel for Ethics during the Obama administration.

A Biden transition official described Remus as “a distinguished attorney with years of experience serving as counsel to Democratic leaders” who is “fully committed to helping execute President-elect Biden’s bold agenda for our country."

But it’s Remus’ experience clerking for Alito in 2008 that could prove especially valuable to the Biden administration as it gears up for repeated clashes with the Court’s 6 to 3 conservative majority in the years ahead.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-names-former-alito-clerk-to-top-white-house-job/ar-BB1b6n4r?li=BBnb7Kz

[mcar]

1. Smart move

[brer cat]

2. +1 nt

[sheshe2]

4. I have no problem with this.

Some will, I don't.

[greenjar_01]

3. This is how you build bridges, folks

It's OK not to be consumed with anger nonstop, to be looking toward a pluralist future.

We don't have to be pollyannish about it, but it should be a goal.

[Dawson Leery]

5. She worked for Democrats in the past.

I do not see a problem here. Also, many clerk candidates do not get to opt for which justice to work for.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. Er......

"He" is a "she!"

I know - one of those names that everybody claims!

[Cha]

7. Right.. Dana's a she, though.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. History provides some lessons......

Two leaders who have been pointed out for their "unique" selection of important staff/crew members are President Abraham Lincoln and Sir Ernest Shackleton. What makes their choices so interesting and significant is that both selected people that most observers would have not considered as worthy or eligible.

Basically, some of the significant aides selected by both would, in some circles, be considered opponents or enemies. However, there were strong reasons why these past leaders selected who they did, and there were positive outcomes for both.

Lincoln:
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/spring/interview.html#:~:text=Perhaps%20equally%20surprising%20was%20what,and%20Bates%20as%20attorney%20general.

Shackleton:

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/business/leadership-lessons-from-the-shackleton-expedition.html

Interesting concept - working with "others." PRESIDENT-ELECT BIDEN campaigned on that - PRESIDENT OBAMA tried. BunkerBoy had no such interest.

GO, JOE!

[haele]

9. It is habit for smarter appeals justices to have clerk's with opposing views.

That way they can home their arguments and pick out weaknesses in their rulings and statements.
Scalia had an avowed Socialist clerk for him for a decade or so. Ginsberg had a Republican clerk.
I'm surprised Alito had a Democratic clerk. He never struck me as having a flexible enough ego to listen to an opposing views.

Haele

[Wounded Bear]

10. Actual good legal minds tend to be non-partisan...

this sounds like that kind of person.