The U.S. Justice Department’s office of legal counsel, which has gone seven years without a leader who was confirmed by the Senate, will have to wait at least a little longer for one. A scheduled committee vote on nominee Virginia Seitz was put off yesterday when not enough members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were present for a quorum. A notice from the office of Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the committee chairman, rescheduled the vote for May 12.
Ms. Seitz is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Sidley Austin, where she has worked on an array of appellate and constitutional litigation. She has cruised through a relatively smooth confirmation in part because of a sense among conservative colleagues that she would be independent from the White House.
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