The Washington Post Editorial (2.25.2008) begins:
ON ITS RETURN this week, the Senate should act quickly to confirm Mark R. Filip as deputy attorney general. This No. 2 job at the Justice Department essentially functions as the chief operating officer of the mammoth department; it has been without a confirmed nominee since Paul J. McNulty left last summer . . .
Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) put a hold on the nomination Feb. 5; although he spoke admiringly of his home-state federal judge, Mr. Durbin used the hold as leverage to get answers from Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey about the administration’s legal position on waterboarding.
