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	<title><![CDATA[Former Business Lobbyist Denied Important DOJ Role]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ian-millhiser/former-business-lobbyist_b_169833.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Early this month, the White House floated Mark Gitenstein as a potential nominee to head the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy, the office of DOJ responsible for selecting new federal judges. Gitenstein, to his credit, has a <a href="http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=11402">truly heroic record on civil rights and civil liberties</a>--including his time spent working for the Senate Judiciary Committee where he was instrumental in blocking the nomination of ultra-conservative Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. As <em>Roll Call</em> reports, however...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-02-25T11:32:00-05:00</date_published>
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