Obama to pick Republican for Utah’s U.S. attorney?

Some Utah Democrats are none too pleased with whom the Obama administration may pick to become the state’s next U.S. attorney: a Republican. Scott Burns, the former deputy U.S. drug czar and ex-Iron County attorney, is being vetted for the vacant post. Burns declined comment Wednesday, referring calls to the Justice Department, which also would not comment. But Todd Taylor, executive director of the Utah Democratic Party, sure had something to say. “Scott Burns is a lousy, horrible choice,” he ...