By then, Bush appointees in the Justice Department had produced numerous memos advising the C.I.A. and the Pentagon that there were virtually no legal impediments to the use of physical and psychological force to break "unlawful enemy combatants".
In the debates over distributing condoms in the schools in the 1990s, Mr. Thompson, then a Brooklyn appointee to the Board of Education, was on the liberal side.
To assure this person's integrity and independence, require the president's nominee to win Senate confirmation and then guarantee the appointee a 10-year term.
This would be the "little Serbian," as David Wildstein, then a political appointee to the Port Authority, put it in an e-mail to Christie's campaign manager, referring to Fort Lee's mayor, Mark Sokolich, a not-so-little man of Croatian descent.
If the uni-regulator is a political appointee, then you will be subject to lobbying from parties interested in "new and improved" financial products.
Reagan's SEC appointee then legalized it.
They oversee military appointments and then use their appointees to bless coups.
Presidents pledge to put men and women on the bench who will vote to sustain the constitutionality of the policies they support — generally equating this with qualities like "independence" and "adherence to the meaning of the Constitution" — and then watch their appointees, once unhitched from the political leash, stray all over the barnyard, sometimes ending up as heroes of the opposition.
Presidents pledge to put men and women on the bench who will vote to sustain the constitutionality of the policies they support generally equating this with qualities like "independence" and "adherence to the meaning of the Constitution"—and then watch their appointees, once unhitched from the political leash, stray all over the barnyard, sometimes ending up as heroes of the opposition.
Several Clinton appointees then came forward.
