Rove was also appointing unqualified young staffers to federal judgeships:http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5480673 …
Going thru really old archives and stumbled on this: Karl Rove considered firing Pat Fitz during Plame investigation in 2005. https://www.emptywheel.net/2008/07/17/fitzgerald-learned-rove-was-trying-to-fire-him-in-2005-while-rove-was-still-under-investigation/ … What's old is new.
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Same time he was launching Chris Christie's career.
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What ever happened to Fitz?
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I mean, Wikipedia tells me he's in a private practice now, sure. But there was a stretch where it was like he was the next big thing, right?
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Fitz always seemed to me a pretty upright lawyer, tho operating w/in legal system's limits. I think maybe he went back to IL to make a bigger living than govt work, at least for a while. FWIW, a 2012 blog post of mine gives nods to
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He never left. Works at a Big Law firm there, last I checked.
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Marcy, seems like the firing of the US Attorneys during the GW Bush admin remains one of the most lamentably under-examined scandals of that time, right?
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Who can forget the war on Fitzmas?
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Should have been fired immediately. Especially now that we know Comey hired him after the crime was already solved.
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