The Law-and-Order President and the White House Counsel

It is now official that White House Counsel Don McGahn will depart once the Kavanaugh nomination is wrapped up. He has been there most of two years, not an unusual length of time to hold the position.

In the WSJ, Michael Bender has

this article

on Mr. McGahn's departure and possible successors, and the paper has

this editorial

titled: "Don McGahn's Quiet Achievement: The departing White House counsel helped remake the judiciary."

Mr. Trump promised to "the law-and-order President," and among the most important and longest-lasting steps toward fulfilling that promises is appointing judges with a sufficient appreciation of the public-safety implications of court rulings. That applies to the lower courts as well as the Supreme Court. I do not expect the President personally to be paying a lot of attention to the lower court choices, so it is vital that the White House Counsel be someone who keeps law enforcement front and center in making selections.

The Law-and-Order President and the White House Counsel curated from Crime and Consequences Blog