9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (Seattle)
By John Roemer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Daily Journal Staff Writer
An unusual political deal led Democratic President Bill Clinton to nominate Republican lawyer Richard C. Tallman of Seattle to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The rare bipartisan exercise was no accident.
In 1995, Clinton wanted to place on the court liberal UC Berkeley School of Law professor William A. Fletcher, who'd been his Rhodes Scholar classmate at Oxford University. Senate Republic... (continued)
