Bush appointees uber alles

So, on NPR this morn­ing, there was a story about how career lawyers (mean­ing, peo­ple who got their jobs by apply­ing for them) at the Jus­tice Depart­ment, agreed unan­i­mously that Tom DeLay’s redis­trict­ing of Texas vot­ing dis­tricts was ille­gal, but they were over­ruled by a Bush admin­is­tra­tion apointee.

It caused me to won­der how many instances of this there have been, since Bush took office. I can think of a few off the top of my head, and Ken has sup­plied me with a few more, but I’d like other input, too.

But here’s what I got:

1. Texas redis­trict­ing issue. Despite unan­i­mous inter­nal opin­ion that the redis­trict­ing plan vio­lated the Vot­ing Rights Act, Bush polit­i­cal appointees over­ruled that deci­son and the “Jus­tice Depart­ment” ruled that the plan was not ille­gal. The mat­ter of the legal­ity of the redis­trict­ing is now before the Supreme Court.
WaPo | NPR | NYTimes | Oppo­si­tion view at the NRO

2. Plan B “morn­ing after” pill. In an unprece­dented move, offi­cials within the FDA ignored the opin­ions of an inde­pen­dent panel and in-house sci­en­tists and rejected an appli­ca­tion to allow over-the-counter sales of a “morn­ing after” birth con­trol pill.
NYTimes | WaPo

Keep in mind, I’m not talk­ing about incom­pe­tent Bush appointees, but rather polit­i­cal appointees whose deci­sions seem to fly in the face of long-time or cre­den­tialed staff. Any other examples?