Who did Attorney General Merrick Garland appoint as special counsel investigating Garagegate? Him, by which I mean Hur — Robert Hur to be precise.
On the one hand, he succeeded Rod Rosenstein as U.S. attorney for Maryland and worked for Christopher Wray for many years. On the other hand, he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski.
While the former set of facts screams the title of the best song by the Chameleons, the latter ones, particularly his association with Kozinski — once long favored by right-wingers of a libertarian bent for a spot on the Supreme Court — suggests Hur likely shares beliefs with many readers.
Predicting Mega Millions winning numbers seems as safe a bet as forecasting how such law careerists conduct themselves in office. But one can at least exhale knowing that Hur did not come out of Perkins Coie or the ACLU.
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Daniel J. Flynn, a senior editor of The American Spectator, is the author of Cult City: Harvey Milk, Jim Jones, and 10 Days That Shook San Francisco (ISI Books, 2018), The War on Football (Regnery, 2013), Blue Collar Intellectuals (ISI Books, 2011), A Conservative History of the American Left (Crown Forum, 2008), Intellectual Morons (Crown Forum, 2004), and Why the Left Hates America (Prima Forum, 2002). His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Boston Globe, New York Post, City Journal, National Review, and his own website, www.flynnfiles.com.
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