Rachel Paulose, a liberal’s view

Daniel Solove is a distinguished law professor at George Washington University. He was also a classmate of Rachel Paulose at Yale law school. Until recently, Paulose was the U.S. attorney in Minnesota. She left this post after coming under persistent personal attack from some career prosecutors in the office.
Solove has this to say about Paulose and the attacks on her character:

As one who has been very critical of the Bush Administration and of how it has politicized the DOJ, I ordinarily would not be very sympathetic to Rachel. But I know Rachel Paulose. We were in the same class at Yale Law School. It is hard to believe some of the media accounts of her, as she always struck me as incredibly kind and nice.
Rachel and I are at different ends of the political spectrum, and I would not have been friendly with somebody who was a hack, who was strident in her ideology, who was obtrusive about her religious beliefs. But I found Rachel to be quite likable, and I had many good conversations with her in law school. I never found her to be aloof, pushy, fiercely ideological, nasty, or many of the other characteristics currently being attributed to her. In my experience, she was always thoughtful, respectful, and friendly. Therefore, I doubt the accounts of her I’ve been reading in the media — they certainly don’t reflect the person I knew when I was in law school.

Via Instapundit.

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