"There was a special circle of Clinton hell reserved for people who had endorsed Obama or stayed on the fence after Bill and Hillary had raised money for them, appointed them to a political post or written a recommendation to ice their kid's application to an elite school".
In part, Obama's reluctance for so long to publicly criticize Pierson and her predecessor, Mark Sullivan, who left in early 2013, could be attributed to a general reticence by any president to fire Cabinet officials and other top aides, lest the firing be interpreted as an admission of failure for having appointed them in the first place.
This bill, requiring Senate approval for the firing of Cabinet members during the tenure of the president who appointed them and for one month afterwards, was immediately controversial, with some senators doubting that it was constitutional or that its terms applied to Johnson, whose key Cabinet officers were Lincoln holdovers.
Scalia says that he doesn't feel that the Supreme Court is a "political" body, at all, and that all the 5-4 decisions are not a sign that judges are voting their politics -- the judges are there because the Presidents that appointed them went looking for specific judicial philosophies.
Members were appointed for two years and were not bound by any mandate or instruction of the organisations which appointed them.
"What I understand they already told people in the transition report is that no one ever asked for any quid pro quo in exchange for appointing them," Mr. Genson said.
"And our managers weren't very good, although I've got to take responsibility for appointing them".
Governors were popularly elected in Russia until a 2004 decree by Mr. Putin, then Russia's president, that gave the president responsibility for appointing them.
There are about four million notaries public in the United States, and every state sets its own rules for appointing them and overseeing their work.
Yet O'Connor also thinks -- a few pages later -- that women in fact judge differently in some circumstances, even if that should not be a principal reason for appointing them.
The Scottish Tories have long accepted leaders appointed for them by the leadership of the national party.
