1. Peter Keisler is a partner at the firm of Sidley Austin in Washington, DC, and used to be the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division at the US Department of Justice.
11 Facts About Peter Keisler
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Peter Keisler specialized in general and appellate litigation and telecommunications law, and argued before the US Supreme Court and numerous federal Courts of Appeals.
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Peter Keisler joined the Department on June 24,2002, as the Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General and Acting Associate Attorney General.
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Peter Keisler was sworn in as the Civil Division's Assistant Attorney General on July 1,2003.
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Peter Keisler was involved in defending the Bush Administration's policies in the Global War on Terror.
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Peter Keisler has represented the government in defense of laws protecting access to abortion clinics and imposing requirements on telemarketing companies.
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In probably the most well-known case he handled, Keisler argued on behalf of the government in Hamdan v Rumsfeld in the DC Circuit and participated in both the case's appellate and Supreme Court briefs.
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Maryland's two Democratic senators, Paul Sarbanes and Barbara Mikulski blocked the White House from making the nomination on the grounds that Peter Keisler did not have strong enough ties to the Maryland legal community.
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Peter Keisler had been on its board of directors from 1983 until 2000.
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On March 18,2008, it was announced that Peter Keisler would be returning to his former position as a partner of Sidley Austin as a global coordinator of the firm's appellate practice in its Washington, DC office.
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On October 21,2008, Sidley Austin announced that Peter Keisler would be joining the firm's Executive Committee, the committee that exercises general authority over the affairs of the firm.