Office of Legal Counsel Nominee Has Liberal Roots
He may be a conservative now, but Steven Bradbury has liberal roots. The acting chief of the DOJ's influential Office of Legal Counsel campaigned for Jimmy Carter in 1976 and volunteered for Democrat Gary Hart's presidential primary campaign in '84. Reviled by Democrats for his legal work on interrogation techniques and warrantless wiretapping, Bradbury burnished his conservative credentials as a law clerk. Friends and former colleagues say he is an honest lawyer who's been vilified for unpopular positions.
