J. Scott Jennings VS Leahy
C-SPAN 3 at 10am Eastern.
Senate Committee
Dismissal of U.S. Attorneys
Judiciary
Washington, District of Columbia (United States)
ID:
08/02/2007 -
Jennings, J. Scott
The committee continues hearings on, “Preserving prosecutorial independence: Is the Department of Justice politicizing the hiring and firing of U.S. attorneys?”
Personal
Jennings is a native of Dawson Springs, Kentucky and graduated from high school there in 1996. Jennings was a Coca-Cola National Scholar and featured in the Foundation's magazine in 2006. [1]
He received his bachelor's degree from theUniversity of Louisville in 2000 where he was aMcConnell Scholar. While a student at the University of Louisville, he was a news anchor and reporter forWHAS Radio. While at WHAS, Jennings won a local award from the Associated Press for a several-part series on the plight of the homeless living in downtown Louisville.
Career
Jennings served as political director for President Bush's 2000 Kentucky campaign, Sen.Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in his 2002 re-election campaign, Gov.Ernie Fletcher in his 2003 campaign, and managed President Bush’s campaign in New Mexico in 2004, before joining the White House. New Mexico was one of only two states to flip from blue to red in between 2000 and 2004; the other was Iowa.
He served as Associate Director in the Office of Political Affairs at the White House before being named to his present position.[2].
E-mail messages handed over to a congressional committee show Jennings used a Republican National Committee e-mail address to discuss the firings with aides to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales…
Will any Senators on the Judiciary Committee question Jennings on Mitch McConnell’s involvement of the removal of his close friend and former General Counsel, David Huber, from the list of US Attorneys to be fired?
