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December 15, 2008
Bansal, attorney for ESDC in Atlantic Yards case, is on Obama's short list for Solicitor General, the "Tenth Justice"
Atlantic Yards Report
Now that President-elect Barack Obama has appointed New Yorkers Shaun Donovan and Adolfo Carrion (much more controversially) to become, respectively, secretary of the department of Housing and Urban Development and head of the new White House Office of Urban Policy, the latter two might offer support to the policies and project of the Bloomberg administration, including Atlantic Yards.
A third New Yorker is also up for a key job with Obama and, while the position almost surely would have nothing to do with AY, she's had a close and controversial relationship the legal battles over the project.
On the president-elect's short list for Solicitor General, who has primary and mostly independent responsibility for presenting the Government's case to the Supreme Court, is Preeta Bansal, a former New York State Solicitor General (supervising 40-50 appellate submissions per week), a member of his transition team, and the lead attorney representing the Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) in appeals court.
Norman Oder examines Bansal's arguments in the federal appeal of the Atlantic Yards eminent domain case and finds some questionable assertions, which may (or may not, but still may) be cause for concern.
Posted by lumi at December 15, 2008 5:54 AM