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Video: SCOTUS Experts Weigh In on Kagan Confirmation Process

By | 06.15.10 | 8:32 pm

Five legal experts discussed Elana Kagan’s prospects for confirmation to the Supreme Court today at the Aspen Institute, and Abbey Brandon of TWI’s video team was on hand. The experts — Rachel Brand, a Justice Department official under George W. Bush; Lanny Davis, a former special counsel to President Clinton; More…

Lanny Davis, Reporting for Newsmax.com

By | 06.08.09 | 1:05 pm

The far-right site Newsmax.com has quietly launched a blog by stalwart Bill and Hillary Clinton ally Lanny Davis, and it’s as entertainingly scattered and apologetic as, well, everything else Davis does. The title of his May 17 post:

Indict Cheney

The title of his very next post from 11 More…

Lanny Davis Says Indict Cheney for Torture

By | 05.19.09 | 3:22 pm

Former Bill Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis is about as anti-progressive as you can get and still be a Democrat — here’s Davis in 2006 calling liberal opponents of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) “McCarthyites” on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal — and yet, via Greg Sargent, More…

Clinton Die-Hard Slams McCain’s Sexism

By | 09.03.08 | 2:15 pm

Lanny Davis, die-hard confidante of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, former White House counsel, current Fox News contributor and G.O.P favorite — one of few Democrats appointed by President George W. Bush — slammed Sen. John McCain in unusually strong terms today.

Writing for FoxNews.com, Davis joined the chorus of More…

Clintonite Wolfson Touts Obama (Even without Campaign Job)

By | 09.02.08 | 6:00 am

When I ran into Howard Wolfson, the former message czar for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, at the Democratic National Convention last week, I asked him why he wasn’t working on the Obama campaign. He said he hadn’t been asked. Sen. Barack Obama’s aides would have been wise to tap More…