Conservative legal scholar Douglas Kmiec may have seemed like an odd candidate in 2009 to be the U.S. ambassador to Malta, a tiny Mediterranean island republic.
But the Pepperdine University School of Law professor was once dean of Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, and Malta is overwhelmingly Catholic. Equally important, Kmiec stuck his neck out by endorsing Barack Obama as president in 2008. But in the end, Kmiec’s Catholic scholarship may have been his undoing. Kmiec is resigning after the State Department’s inspector general last month criticized him for the “considerable time” he spent writing articles on religion for publication.
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