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Edward M. Whelan III, Esq.


Self Description

January 2011: "Edward Whelan is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He directs EPPC's program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture. His areas of expertise include constitutional law and the judicial confirmation process. As a contributor to National Review Online's Bench Memos blog, he has been a leading commentator on nominations to the Supreme Court and the lower courts and on issues of constitutional law. He has written essays and op-eds for opinion journals, leading newspapers, and academic symposia.

Mr. Whelan, a lawyer and a former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, has served in positions of responsibility in all three branches of the federal government. From just before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, until joining EPPC in 2004, Mr. Whelan was the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice. In that capacity, he advised the White House Counsel’s Office, the Attorney General and other senior DOJ officials, and Departments and agencies throughout the executive branch on difficult and sensitive legal questions. Mr. Whelan previously served on Capitol Hill as General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. In addition to clerking for Justice Scalia, he was a law clerk to Judge J. Clifford Wallace of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mr. Whelan also previously worked as Senior Vice President and Counselor to the General Counsel for Verizon Corp. and as a lawyer in private practice."

http://www.eppc.org/scholars/scholarID.68/scholar.asp

Third-Party Descriptions

January 2011: 'M. Edward Whelan III, a former Bush administration lawyer, said the Obama team’s rejection of the children-based rationale amounted to “sabotage.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/us/politics/29marriage.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Organization Head/Leader (past or present) Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) Organization Jan 29, 2011
Organization Executive (past or present) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) Organization Jan 29, 2011
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Verizon Communications Organization Jan 29, 2011
Subordinate of (past or present) Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia Person Jan 29, 2011

Articles and Resources

Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
Jan 28, 2011 Suits on Same-Sex Marriage May Force Administration to Take a Stand

QUOTE: President Obama has balanced on a political tightrope for two years over the Defense of Marriage Act, the contentious 1996 law barring federal recognition of same-sex marriages. Now, two new federal lawsuits threaten to snap that rope out from under him.

 New York Times