Thursday, March 4, 2010

Obama Now Selling

Judgeships for Health
Care Votes?
Obama names brother of undecided House Dem
to Appeals Court.
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Jim Matheson of Utah. The White House just sent out a press release announcing that today President
Register · Forgot Password · Update Acct. Obama nominated Matheson's brother Scott M. Matheson, Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for
the Tenth Circuit.

“Scott Matheson is a distinguished candidate for the Tenth Circuit court,” President Obama
said.  “Both his legal and academic credentials are impressive and his commitment to judicial
COVER STORY integrity is unwavering.  I am honored to nominate this lifelong Utahn to the federal bench.”  
Predators Over Pakistan
BY Kenneth Anderson Scott M. Matheson, Jr.: Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the
Tenth Circuit
EDITORIAL
Scott M. Matheson currently holds the Hugh B. Brown Presidential Endowed Chair at the S.J.
Curb Your Exhilaration Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, where he has been a member of the faculty since
BY William Kristol
1985.  He served as Dean of the Law School from 1998 to 2006.  He also taught First Amendment 
Law at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government from 1989 to 1990.  
SCRAPBOOK

Targeting the CIA While on public service leave from the University of Utah from 1993 to 1997, Matheson served as
United States Attorney for the District of Utah.  In 2007, he was appointed by Governor Jon 
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Huntsman to chair the Utah Mine Safety Commission.  He also worked as a Deputy County 
Attorney for Salt Lake County from 1988 to 1989.  Prior to joining the University faculty, 
Do Mention the War Matheson was an associate attorney from 1981 to 1985 at Williams & Connolly LLP in Washington,
BY Andrew Stuttaford
D.C.
Greece’s Financial Crisis
Irwin M. Stelzer
BY
Matheson was born and raised in Utah and is a sixth generation Utahn.  He received an A.B. from 
He's No FDR Stanford University in 1975, an M.A. from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar,
BY Fred Barnes and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1980.
No We Can’t
BY John H. Chettle So, Scott Matheson appears to have the credentials to be a judge, but was his nomination used to buy off
Not the One They Were his brother's vote?
Hoping For
BY Matthew Continetti

On Eagle’s Wings
BY Jonathan V. Last

The Cubanization of
Venezuela
BY Jaime Daremblum

BOOKS & ARTS

Best Picture?
BY John Podhoretz

Heilman of Letters
BY James Seaton

In Plain Sight
BY Ann Marlowe

Scientific Methods
BY Karl W. Giberson

Summary Justice Consider Congressman Matheson's record on the health care bill. He voted against the bill in the Energy
BY Charlotte Allen and Commerce Committee back in July and again when it passed the House in November. But now
The Bronzino Age he's "undecided" on ramming the bill through Congress. "The Congressman is looking for development of
BY James Gardner bipartisan consensus," Matheson's press secretary Alyson Heyrend wrote to THE WEEKLY STANDARD
on February 22. "It’s too early to know if that will occur." Asked if one could infer that if no Republican
CASUAL votes in favor of the bill (i.e. if a bipartisan consensus is not reached) then Rep. Matheson would vote no,
Heyrend replied: "I would not infer anything.  I’d wait to see what develops, starting with the health care
Dream Ticket
BY Mary Katharine Ham summit on Thursday."

The timing of this nomination looks suspicious, especially in light Democratic Congressman Joe Sestak's
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claim that he was offered a federal job not to run against Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania primary. Many
Gordon Brown staff calls speculated that Sestak, a former admiral, was offered the Secretary of the Navy job.
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March 4, 2010

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Votes?
Obama names brother of
undecided House Dem to Appeals
Court.
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Selling
Judgeships for
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Votes?
Obama names brother of
undecided House Dem to Appeals
Court.
BY JOHN MCCORMACK
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