As in Ledbetter, it was a vote of five-to-four, with the Republican appointees in the majority and the Democratic appointees in dissent.
This involved putting political appointees in charge of key departments, rather than civil servants.
Even when that's done, there remain hundreds of Blagojevich-era appointees in limbo.
Several Bush political appointees in the civil rights division have recently resigned.
Many political appointees in the executive branch face the same problem.
"There's a strong possibility of not one but two liberal appointees in the Supreme Court.
The Clinton appointees in the Justice Department were released when George W. Bush was elected.
The number of political appointees in those jobs has jumped in the last eight years.
She makes $142,140 a year, and was one of Mr. Giuliani's first appointees in 1994.
References to it were deleted from some government reports by political appointees in the White House.
The inclusion of a large number of gay appointees in the Clinton administration was an accomplishment.
