Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008...9:17 am
Alaska Lawyers in the News - Winfree, Van Flein, and Colberg
The spotlight on Gov. Sarah Palin has spread to her first Supreme Court appointee - Dan Winfree - and her Department of Law-selected attorney for the Troopergate investigation.
Volokh Conspiracy tried to read tea leaves from Palin’s pick of Winfree, and the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog lightly profiled Thomas Van Flein from the Anchorage office of Clapp Peterson. The comments on Winfree (my ex-partner) are odd, in a head-scratching kind of way, and frequently off-base - “trial lawyer,” an “Eisenhower Republican,” for example.
Dermot Cole, at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, says that AG Talis Colberg would become Acting Governor if both Palin and Parnell win federal office. In that case, there’d be a special election between March 21 and April 20. If Palin is elected but Parnell loses to Young or Berkowitz, Parnell would be Governor until 2010.
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