Mary Jo White, the aggressive New York attorney nominated by President Obama Thursday to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission, is accustomed to tough legal challenges. When Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and nine fellow Muslim militants were charged in a 1993 plot to bomb the United Nations and other New York landmarks, the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office headed by White turned to a little-used seditious conspiracy statute from the Civil War era to prosecute the sprawling terrorism case. More in USA Today here.
