President George W. Bush's two appointees, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, have attended in recent years.
Mr. Liu also earned conservative enmity by criticizing Mr. Bush's two Supreme Court appointees, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Conservatives also dislike Mr. Liu because he strongly criticized President George W. Bush's Supreme Court appointees, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., as being too conservative.
President Bush's two appointees, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., have given Dobson and his allies much to be thankful for.
The opinion — by Judge Judith Rogers, a Clinton appointee, and Chief Justice Douglas Ginsburg, a Reagan appointee — shocked legal scholars and officials at the F.D.A., which had begun drafting proposals aimed at increasing patients' access to experimental drugs.
Quite a feat, Mr. Codey understood, since Mr. Bartels was chosen for the commission by a Republican appointee, State Supreme Court Chief Justice Deborah Poritz.
Two days after Mr. Aquino won the presidential election, Mrs. Arroyo elevated her appointee to chief justice, a move that Mr. Aquino and his supporters say was intended to derail efforts to develop corruption cases against Mrs. Arroyo and others in her administration.
Steven Bellovin, a long-time internet security researcher and a recent one-year appointee as chief technologist of the Federal Trade Commission, notes in a blog that he finds the error "too visible and too clumsy" to be that of a national-security apparatus.
While the Supreme Court is no stranger either to raging controversy in general or to highly charged political drama -- Richard M. Nixon's appointee as chief justice, Warren E. Burger, signed the 8-to-0 opinion in the Watergate tapes case, which led directly to the president's resignation -- the current context is extraordinary in several respects.
Lowe spent his career was with the Federal government working for the Mine Safety and Health Administration, Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and as a Clinton appointee as Chief of Staff concentrating on civil rights work.
