Linda Singer Resigns (DC Attorney)

[ky_man]

http://www.examiner.com/a-1109525~D...igns_months_before_gun_case_to_be_argued.html

WASHINGTON (Map, News) - The top lawyer for the District of Columbia resigned Monday, months before the city is expected to defend its sweeping gun ban before the Supreme Court.

Linda Singer did not give a reason for leaving in her letter to Mayor Adrian Fenty. However, The Washington Post reported that she had been increasingly upstaged by General Counsel Peter Nickles.

Nickles was named acting attorney general Monday.

The role of the D.C. attorney general is to represent the interests of the city as a whole, while the general counsel represents the mayor. However, Fenty increasingly had turned to Nickles to make key legal decisions, the Post reported.

The Supreme Court agreed last month to take the case over the D.C. gun restrictions. Oral arguments in the case, which could produce the most in-depth examination of the constitutional right to "keep and bear arms" in nearly 70 years, will probably be heard in March, with a decision expected by the end of June.

Alan Morrison, the special counsel who is to argue the case for D.C., will stay on, Fenty spokesman Alan Heymann said.

Wonder what caused this?

 

[ZeSpectre]

Also here
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1207/481212.html

Interesting time for the rats to start jumping ship.

 

[TexasRifleman]

Nobody wants their name associated with such a high profile loss as this will be for them (I hope)

 

[geekWithA.45]

{Calvin & Hobbes Fantasy Mode}

All the DC counsels resign.

The only person left is the city clerk, who timidly pokes her head out @ the supreme court. "Uh, can I just surrender on behalf of the city and go home?"

{/Calvin & Hobbes Fantasy Mode}

 

[Cougfan2]

Nobody wants their name associated with such a high profile loss as this will be for them (I hope)

I suspect Texasrifleman is right. No one likes to have their ass handed to them in public.

 

[v35]

She can't actually believe what she's been saying, can she? Maybe she's tired of trying.

 

[Art Eatman]

This would be better as an APS topic.