U.S. Attorney in Minnesota Is Reassigned
By PHILIP SHENON
New York Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 — The embattled United States attorney in Minnesota announced today that she would be stepping down to go work at the Justice Department in Washington on legal policy issues.
The announcement by the prosecutor, Rachel K. Paulose, 34, came in the wake of reports of new staff turmoil in her office, with at least one senior lawyer resigning from his management post in Minneapolis on Friday in a protest over her leadership. Three other managers gave up their administrative jobs in a similar protest in April.
In an unusual public statement on a conservative blog last week, Ms. Paulose suggested that she was a victim of “McCarthyite hysteria that permits the anonymous smearing of any public servant who is now, or ever may have been, a member of the Federalist Society, a person or faith and/or a conservative (especially a young, conservative woman of color).”
Ms. Paulose, a Christian who was born in India and is the youngest United States attorney in the country, is a former member of the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers’ group whose members have assumed many high-ranking posts in the Bush administration.
In Washington, the Justice Department did not respond to questions about the reasons for, or timing of, Ms. Paulose’s transfer to Washington, where she will be a counselor to the acting assistant attorney general for legal policy.
Nor would department spokesmen here say if Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, who is in his second full week on the job, had actively participated in the decision.
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New York Times
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 — The embattled United States attorney in Minnesota announced today that she would be stepping down to go work at the Justice Department in Washington on legal policy issues.
The announcement by the prosecutor, Rachel K. Paulose, 34, came in the wake of reports of new staff turmoil in her office, with at least one senior lawyer resigning from his management post in Minneapolis on Friday in a protest over her leadership. Three other managers gave up their administrative jobs in a similar protest in April.
In an unusual public statement on a conservative blog last week, Ms. Paulose suggested that she was a victim of “McCarthyite hysteria that permits the anonymous smearing of any public servant who is now, or ever may have been, a member of the Federalist Society, a person or faith and/or a conservative (especially a young, conservative woman of color).”
Ms. Paulose, a Christian who was born in India and is the youngest United States attorney in the country, is a former member of the Federalist Society, a conservative lawyers’ group whose members have assumed many high-ranking posts in the Bush administration.
In Washington, the Justice Department did not respond to questions about the reasons for, or timing of, Ms. Paulose’s transfer to Washington, where she will be a counselor to the acting assistant attorney general for legal policy.
Nor would department spokesmen here say if Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, who is in his second full week on the job, had actively participated in the decision.
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