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\"brownbackmccain.jpg\"On the heels of his Wake Forest address on judges this morning<\/a>, John McCain has rolled out his Justice Advisory Committee. The full list includes plenty of conservative Christian activists and is below. Most noteworthy, however, are the co-chairs. Or, more specifically, one of them. That former solicitor general Theodore Olson is one is no surprise. He’s one of the country’s most prominent conservative legal minds.
\nBut the other co-chair, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback, is a less obvious pick. His selection sends a clear message from McCain to the Christian Right: I care about you and your central issue, judges.
\nEnlisting Brownback to head up Christian Right outreach<\/a> is one thing. Picking him to co-chair the judicial advisory committee is quite another. His selection might get McCain more credibility in outside-the-beltway conservative Catholic and evangelical circles than his speech this morning, or all the speeches in the world.
\nHere’s the full Steering Committee:
\n\u2022 Michael Abramowicz — Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
\n\u2022 Hon. William P. Barr — former Attorney General of the United States
\n\u2022 Gerard V. Bradley — Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
\n\u2022 Rachel Brand — former Assistant Attorney General for Office of Legal Policy
\n\u2022 Steven Calabresi — George C. Dix Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
\n\u2022 Dean Ronald A. Cass — Chairman, Center for the Rule of Law; Dean Emeritus, Boston University School of Law
\n\u2022 Senator Daniel Coats — former United States Senator, Indiana
\n\u2022 Manus M. Cooney — former Chief Counsel and Staff Director, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
\n\u2022 Charles J. Cooper — former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel
\n\u2022 Arthur B. Culvahouse, Jr. — former White House Counsel to President Ronald Reagan
\n\u2022 Carol E. Dinkins — Partner, Vinson & Elkins
\n\u2022 John F. Duffy — Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School
\n\u2022 Miguel A. Estrada — former Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States
\n\u2022 Charles Fried — Beneficial Profes sor of Law, Harvard Law School; former Solicitor General of the United States
\n\u2022 Sandra S. Froman — Arizona attorney
\n\u2022 Richard W. Garnett — Professor of Law, Notre Dame Law School
\n\u2022 Robert P. George — McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, Princeton University
\n\u2022 Senator Lindsey Graham — United States Senator, South Carolina
\n\u2022 Senator Phil Gramm — former United States Senator, Texas
\n\u2022 Governor Frank Keating — former Governor of Oklahoma
\n\u2022 Orin S. Kerr — Professor, George Washington Universit y Law School
\n\u2022 Senator Jon Kyl — United States Senator, Arizona
\n\u2022 Christopher Landau — Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
\n\u2022 Senator Trent Lott — former United States Senator, Mississippi
\n\u2022 Randy Mastro — former Deputy Mayor of New York City
\n\u2022 John O. McGinnis — Professor of Law, Northwestern University School of Law
\n\u2022 Maureen E. Mahoney — former Deputy Solicitor General of the Unites States
\n\u2022 Thomas W. Merrill — Charles Keller Beekman Professor, Columbia Law School
\n\u2022 Marc L. Mukasey — Partner, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP ; former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York
\n\u2022 Caleb Nelson — Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
\n\u2022 Eileen J. O’Connor — former Assistant Attorney General, Tax Division, U.S. Department of Justice
\n\u2022 Hon. Thomas R. Phillips — former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
\n\u2022 Edward R. Reines — Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
\n\u2022 Kristi L. Remington — former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy
\n\u2022 Professor Daniel B. Rodriguez — Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law, The University of Texas at Austin Scho ol of Law
\n\u2022 Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz — Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
\n\u2022 Ronald D. Rotunda — University Professor and Professor of Law, George Mason University
\n\u2022 Cathy Cleaver Ruse — Senior Fellow for Legal Studies at the Family Research Council; Governor, Ave Maria School of Law
\n\u2022 Peter B. Rutledge — Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law
\n\u2022 Jon A. Sale — former federal prosecutor for NY and Miami; former law professor, Nova Southeastern and St. Thomas
\n\u2022 John Smietanka — former U.S. attorney
\n\u2022 Stephen F. Smith — Professor of Law, John V. Ray Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law
\n\u2022 George J. Terwilliger, III — former Deputy Attorney General of the United States
\n\u2022 Senator Fred Thompson — former United States Senator, Tennessee
\n\u2022 Eugene Volokh — Gary T. Swartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
\n\u2022 Dan K. Webb — Chairman, Winston & Strawn; former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois<\/p>\n


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