I just keep telling myself, “He’s better than McCain, he’s better than McCain…”

President Obama is continuing to fill the senior ranks of the U.S. Department of Justice with the copyright industry's favorite lawyers.

Donald Verrilli announced Wednesday that he had been named associate deputy attorney general. Verrilli is the lawyer who pulled the plug on Grokster, sued Google on behalf of Viacom, and represented the Recording Industry Association of America against a Minnesota woman named Jammie Thomas who's accused of illicit file sharing.

This follows a string of other pro-copyright industry picks that Obama has made. Last month, there was Obama's selection last month of a top RIAA lawyer–currently squaring off in court with Harvard University's Berkman Center–to be third-in-command at the Justice Department.

Source: Obama DOJ pick: RIAA lawyer who killed Grokster | Politics and Law – CNET News