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When Obama moved back to Chicago, there was only one Democratic appointee on the Supreme Court — Byron White, hardly a liberal, who had been nominated by John F. Kennedy, in 1962.

The governor, the Assembly speaker, the Senate majority leader and the mayor each has an appointee on the board, any one of whom can veto a request for funds.

"They're calling us the 309-ers; it's like a club," said one lower-level Clinton appointee on Friday, his last day of work at a $56,000-a-year 56,000-a-year 56,000-a-year job

Thus, even were I to conclude that one might read the exclusion of an "appointee on the policymaking level" to include state judges, our precedent would compel me to accept the EEOC's contrary reading of the exclusion if it were a "permissible" interpretation of this ambiguous term.

He served briefly as Mayor David N. Dinkins's appointee on the Board of Education.

She was a Democratic appointee on the 10-member commission that investigated the Sept. 11 attacks.

In other high-profile cases, the justices act like politicians in an even more fundamental way: They vote their party line, with Republican appointees on one side and Democratic appointees on the other.

The governor now has seven appointees on the board, with one more to be named.

Mr. Williamson was vulnerable because he was one of five presidential appointees on Farmer Mac's board.

In the fight over the law's provisions, the commission has been outmatched, said Bart Chilton, one of three Democratic appointees on the panel.

The Salt Lake City race features two-term incumbent Ralph Becker, one of Obama's appointees on a climate change taskforce, and former state lawmaker Jackie Biskupski.