I should have mentioned this but I’ve been too under it. Encounter Books has just released by contribution to its series of pamphlets, which publisher Roger Kimball calls “Encounter Broadsides.” Mine is called, “How the Obama Administration Has Politicized Justice.” I’m very proud to be a part of the series, which includes contrributions on important topics by Michael Ledeen, Victor Davis Hanson, John Fund, Roy Spencer, Steeve Moore, and David Gratzer — and there are more to come.

What I’m not very proud of, as a Justice Department alum, is that it should be necessary to write such a thing. Alas, there seems always to be more to come on that score, too. Scott Hennen alerts me that Pres. Obama has nominated a DNC member, trial lawyer, and long-time John Edwards crony, Tim Purdon, to be the the next U.S. attorney for North Dakota. Purdon has reportedly never been a prosecutor, and the candidate who was passed over had 12 years’ experience in that district’s U.S. Attorney’s Office. More here.

Of course, as I argue in the pamphlet and said during the trumped up U.S. attorneys firing “scandal” (see here and here), this is the kind of political patronage that goes on all the time with these slots. Still, I can’t help but wonder whether, with a Democratic administration now in charge and passing out the goodies to Democrats, the congressional judiciary committees will scorch the earth with subpoenas and demand testimony from top White House staff?