Under The Wire

What's even weirder about the George Cardona appointment to the US Attorney office in Los Angeles is that the President went ahead and signed the bill that would have blocked such an appointment:

On June 14, 2007, the President signed into law:

S. 214, the “Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007.”

Why was it so important to get Cardona in before mandating Senate confirmation? What do we know about this guy?

We know that he was a lecturer at UCLA Law School. He was an Assistant US Attorney under Bush I and Clinton from 1991-1998. What you can find about him online is kind of thin.

I suspect this was more about keeping OUT the independent Thomas O'Brien, who was an imminent choice, than keeping in Cardona, who's probably a loyal Republican but nothing along the lines of a Schlozman or a Hans von Spakovsky.