Feeds 
A Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he might consider opposing Michael Mukasey's nomination for attorney general if the former judge says waterboarding is not torture.
President Bush's choice for attorney general told senators Friday the Constitution does not prevent the president from wiretapping suspected terrorists without a court order.
Judge Michael Mukasey's nomination for attorney general ran into trouble Thursday when two top Senate Democrats said their votes hinge on whether he will say on the record that an interrogation technique that simulates drowning is torture.
Sen. Bernie Sanders said Monday he will vote against confirming Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general. The former federal judge, Sanders said, would not adequately protect people's civil liberties.
The White House on Friday defended Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey's refusal to say whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, saying it is a difficult issue to discuss in public.
In an intense exchange Thursday with three Democrats, President Bush's nominee for attorney general left the door open for allowing a terrorism-era interrogation technique that simulates drowning.
Lobbying for the job of the nation's top law enforcement officer, Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey pledges to strike a delicate balance between keeping the nation safe and protecting the civil liberties of Americans.
Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey is headed for swift approval with scant objections, the powerful Democrat who will chair his confirmation hearings said Tuesday.
A funny thing happened to Peter Keisler after he quit the Justice Department: They put him in charge.
As the chief federal trial judge in Manhattan, Michael Mukasey approved secret warrants allowing government roundups of Muslims in the days after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Confirmation hearings for Michael Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, will begin Oct. 17, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said Wednesday.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy on Thursday said confirmation hearings for Michael Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, could begin as soon as Oct. 17.
Former federal judge Michael Mukasey, picked by President Bush to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, appears unlikely to face a bruising confirmation battle in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Resigning Attorney General Alberto Gonzales left the scandal-scarred Justice Department on Friday, declaring himself hopeful about its mission of ferreting out crime and defending the truth.
Senate Republicans warned the White House Wednesday that it's not a good time for a fight with Democrats over a new attorney general and predicted there would be one of President Bush nominates former Solicitor General Ted Olson.
Utah's attorney general is giving two thumbs up to the 1967 movie "Camelot" — as a way to attract girls.
A former Texas attorney general has been released from a halfway house after getting about six months trimmed off his four-year federal prison sentence on account of good behavior, authorities said.
An abortion doctor plans to ask for an investigation of the state attorney general and Bill O'Reilly over comments by the Fox television host that he got information from Kansas abortion records, the doctor's attorneys said Saturday.
In a letter late Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee, where his nomination to succeed Alberto R. Gonzales has stalled, Attorney General Designate Michael B. Mukasey sought to eat his cake and have it, too.
Top Dems running for president are coming out against Michael Mukasey, President Bush's nominee to be the next US attorney general.
President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey, was asked an important question about Congress's power at his confirmation hearing.
The nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general encountered resistance on Friday, with Democratic senators suggesting for the first time that they might oppose Mr.
AT his confirmation hearings last week, Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, was asked whether the president is required to obey federal statutes.
In his two days of testimony this week, it became clear that Mr. Mukasey believes presidential power to be robust, expansive and sometimes beyond the power of Congress to control.
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey suggested today that the president could ignore federal surveillance law if it infringes on his constitutional authority as commander in chief.
Now President Bush and Senate Republicans want a quick Senate vote to confirm Bush's nominee Michael Mukasey as Attorney General to replace the disgraced Alberto Gonzales.
Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, appears today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Op-Ed page asked four legal experts to pose the questions they would like to hear Judge Mukasey answer.
The nominee for Attorney General is vehemently opposed to torture and has vowed to run the Justice Department in a non-biased and non-partisan manner.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 — For now, the most powerful law-enforcement official in the federal government is a 47-year-old lawyer little known outside Washington. Or inside Washington, for that matter.
Mel Martinez, General Chairman of the Republican Party, has released a video statement regarding the confirmation of Judge Michael Mukasey.
The FBI is looking into a white supremacist Web site that purports to list the addresses of five of the six black teenagers accused of beating a white student in Jena and "essentially called for their lynching,"...
President Bush's nomination of a conservative federal judge to be the next attorney general has been greeted with huge sighs of relief, especially since Bush has no buddy-buddy personal ties to the nominee, Michael Mukasey.
In his 18 years on the federal bench, Judge Michael B. Mukasey issued more than 1,500 decisions concerning matters as cataclysmic as the Holocaust and as mundane as milk, beer and cigarettes.
Even the best judges get knuckle-rapped by higher courts for not upholding a defendant's rights, as former judge Michael Mukasey knows. Such past corrective experiences would serve him well as US attorney general. He can correct America's mistakes in dealing with terror suspects.
Two Senate Democrats warned Monday that the Judiciary Committee would delay confirmation of President Bush's choice for attorney general unless the White House turned over documents that the panel was seeking for several investigations.
President Bush's selection of nomination of former New York judge Michael Mukasey as the next attorney general will dishearten Bush's conservative supporters, according to a longtime conservative author and activist.
The naming of Mukasey is seen as a concession to Democrats who had pressured Bush to name a consensus nominee if he hoped to avoid controversial confirmation hearings.
Bush threw an unexpected change-up in his announcement this morning.
It's easy to smear a reputation, hard to restore it.
Here in the Big Apple there is a small, tight group surrounding Giuliani, and Mukasey has a place in that group.
lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), yesterday called for the immediate removal of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister for Justice, Mr Michael Aondoakaa (SAN) from office, saying his actions and utterances are not in consonance with …
President Bush has decided to nominate Michael B.
Code of Honor
Log In | Register
