Monday, March 22, 2010

Senate confirms Obama nominee Sharon Browne

SFGate
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, March 20, 2010

The principal attorney for the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation in Sacramento was among six nominees of President Obama who won unanimous Senate confirmation Friday to the board that oversees federally funded legal aid to the poor.
Sharon Browne's appointment to the board of Legal Services Corp. had drawn opposition from civil rights organizations and the Bar Association of San Francisco. They portrayed her as a partisan who has opposed the interests of the agency's low-income and minority clients.
Browne, in written replies to questions from Democrats on a Senate committee, said she strongly supports equal access to justice and federal aid to legal service programs. She said her stance was consistent with her support for California's Proposition 209, the 1996 initiative that outlawed state and local affirmative action programs for minorities and women.Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/19/BAFT1CIM2U.DTL#ixzz0ivINukuk

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