Former judge Michael Mukasey top AG pick.
AMERICAblog notes that CNN is reporting that Michael Mukasey appears to be the administration’s top pick to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General. Mukasey is a former federal judge who “presided over many high-profile trials, including that of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 co-defendants, who were charged with plotting to destroy New York City landmarks.”
UPDATE: Mukasey also issued the first ruling in the Jose Padilla case after 9/11. While he ruled that “President Bush did have the authority to hold Mr. Padilla as an enemy combatant without charging him for a crime,” he also “ruled that the government must allow Mr. Padilla to see his attorneys.”
UPDATE II: Mukasey is an adviser to Rudy Guiliani’s presidential campaign.
UPDATE III: AP reports that some conservatives are already “drafting a strategy to oppose him.”
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September 15th, 2007 at 5:53 pmGoing down in flames!!!!!
September 15th, 2007 at 5:55 pmHe supports Tooliani? More like Mucousy.
-GSD
September 15th, 2007 at 6:01 pmIs his name pronounced, like, “mucus-ey”?
September 15th, 2007 at 6:03 pmYou know, like, boogery and slimy?
BILL MAHRE THINKS ANYONE QUESTIONING THE OFFICIAL STORY OF 9/11 IS A LUNATIC.
READ THROUGH ALL OF THE COMMENTS AND LINKS IN THE MESSAGE THREAD LINKED AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS RAW STORY ARTICLE, AND SEE HOW MANY DISAGREE WITH HIM:
http://rawstory.com/ / news/ 2007/ Bill_Maher_Thinks_911_Truthers_should_0915.html
BOYCOTT BILL MAHRE.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:11 pmWell I find myself in agreement with conservatives.
If I were a Senator on the judiciary committee my strategy would be to ask him to recite the 5th amendment and if he demurred read it to him and ask him which word he didn’t understand.
Also ask him if Bush has the authority to lock me up as an enemy combatant.
Approving his nomination is spitting on our constitution and our human rights.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:15 pmThe Dems now OWN the DoJ!!!
How?
Any nomination from the GOPukes should be met with DOA!!
The Dems can just sit back and insist that a TOLERANT, FAIR, non-Repugniscum-sh!thead is the only acceptable solution!!!!!!!!!
September 15th, 2007 at 6:24 pmI don’t care if this guy is the 2nd coming of Oliver Wendell Holmes,he doesn’t get a sniff of a hearing until the SJC gets EVERY damn paper they have subpeonaed from dumb ass and his lackeys.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:38 pmstop with the updates! Just put together a listing of his positions! Then, after the doj turns over the reqiested papers asked for by the seante, start the hearings.
September 15th, 2007 at 6:56 pmComment by SKdeA — September 15, 2007 @ 5:53 pm
Hi, SKdeA. We’ve been looking for you to invite you to come visit us after you’ve looked through TP.
September 15th, 2007 at 7:17 pmBased on just the info we have here, I hope that somebody on the Judiciary Committee will have the sense to say, “No, thanks, I’m putting an indefinite hold on this guy.” It is quite clear where he would come down on the very things about which we have problems with this administration. And it’s obvious why they selected him and the message they are sending. “We will do things our way, and you insist that a judge must approve it, then we will pick the judges that do the approving.”
September 15th, 2007 at 7:23 pmThis guy must have an extensive voting record. Start digging! :)
I’m not sure what to make of this yet. So middle-of-the-road he won’t be a strong voice/advocate of any legal position.
Now is not the time for a “play it safe”, “don’t make waves” AG.
September 15th, 2007 at 7:39 pmWhy not a FISA judge?
September 15th, 2007 at 8:33 pmI see, the forced abortion of a chinese woman by the chinese government. He ruled in favor of the immigration board.
But Gonzales was the AG in April of 2007.
What am I missing here?
NITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
September 15th, 2007 at 9:00 pmFOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT
No. 05-4140
XIAN CHUN DONG,
Petitioner
v.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES,
Respondent
Petition for Review of an Order of the
United States Department of Justice
Board of Immigration Appeals
(BIA No. A96 435 183)
Immigration Judge: Honorable Walter A. Durling
Argued January 19, 2007
The guy, Mukasey, seems to have done nothing different than what was done under AGAG.
This is just republican blame game tactics if they try to use this abortion that was done by CHINA and during AGAGs service.
September 15th, 2007 at 9:03 pmAccording to earlier reports, he was on Schumer’s list of acceptable nominees for the Supreme Court……
September 15th, 2007 at 10:14 pmSome kind of Ag did idiot will be.Padilla can be locked up forever just as long as you let him see his attorneys ? This joker does not derseve to be Ag.
September 15th, 2007 at 11:26 pmComplain every day about alberto gonzales until he resigns. then start in on the next guy. Is that the progressive idea of progress. (just a reminder, the democratically controlled congress has lower approval ratings than the president)
We get the idea of all the things you oppose, what are you for?
September 16th, 2007 at 12:58 amPaul, it may be hard for you to understand, but no one is “start[ing] in on the next guy”. (Actually, there is NO “next guy” yet; Mukasey is, at this moment, the “front runner”for nomination.) What we ARE doing is checking the man’s record BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE. The Republicons under the Shrub Administration have done very little to produce a moderate nominee, instead preferring to nominate other conservative-to-far-right neocons at first, knowing that those nominations would find limited support among enough of the MODERATE wings of both parties and would either withdraw or be withdrawn from the process, with the Shrubbies putting their REAL selection (who would take on the appearance of being a moderate UNTIL their confirmation) before the Senate. The Senate would then be more likely to confirm the “alternate”.
September 16th, 2007 at 3:18 amAs for your absurd question, the answer is rather simple. We want the OPPOSITE of what the Shrubbies are DOING. They want torture; they want the ability to declare American citizens as “enemy combatants” on a whim; they want to prosecute a person in absolute secrecy; they want the unlimited ability to eavesdrop on private conversations WITHOUT CAUSE. Now, I don’t know about you, but I think being OPPOSED to those is MORE THAN ENOUGH. I could phrase all those positions in a “I’m for” mode (as in “I’m for the abolition of torture; I’m for the right of American citizens to not be declared an enemy combatant without just reason; etc”), but a rational person would be able to figure that out. (Granted, *SOME* conservatives–especially of the trollish variety–don’t seem to be very rational in most instances so they would need to have things spelled out for them.)
I’m also not too worried about those “conservatives” who are planning on fighting the guy. The self-righteous Catholic dude who brought up the Chinese asylum seeker might want to consider how ready the American Catholic Church (that is, the US members of the Roman Catholic Church) is to support POLITICAL asylum cases based on a country’s abortion policy. (He might want to note how dangerous that precedent would be for GAYS AND LESBIANS using “political asylum” as a reason for coming to this country. The Catholic Church opposes homosexuality with the same fervor as it does abortion; I don’t think the man is going to be happy when thousands of gays and lesbians from Africa and the Middle East start fleeing to US Embassies demanding political asylum. Notably, the Church’s policies on both are based on “moral” reasons. But I digress…….)
September 16th, 2007 at 3:30 amWhat DOES concern me is the man’s status as an adviser to the Giuliani campaign. Even if he merely receives the nomination, his first obligation should be to resign his advisory position, no matter how benign it may be. If he is nominated and approved, he really would have no choice, whereas if he fails to be approved, he can always return to the campaign.
HE SHOULD HAVE ADVISED RUDY TO QUIT GOING DRAG!
September 16th, 2007 at 8:54 amRobert Waldmann:
Do you think Benedict Arnold was an enemy combatant?
September 16th, 2007 at 9:10 amHE SHOULD HAVE ADVISED RUDY NOT TO RUN!
if he was really a patriot…
September 16th, 2007 at 10:06 amWow…someone bush picked for the job of AG who thinks that people accused by the “we know where the WMD are” crowd actually have rights.
September 16th, 2007 at 1:42 pmShocking..
yea right .. he thinks what?
MICHAEL B. MUKASEY
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010505
-=snip=-
“Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, is said to have told his American captors that he wanted a lawyer and would see them in court. If the Supreme Court rules–in a case it has agreed to hear relating to Guantanamo detainees–that foreigners in U.S. custody enjoy the protection of our Constitution regardless of the place or circumstances of their apprehension, this bold joke could become a reality.”
-=snip=-
“one unintended outcome of a Supreme Court ruling exercising jurisdiction over Guantanamo detainees may be that, in the future, capture of terrorism suspects will be forgone in favor of killing them. Or they may be put in the custody of other countries like Egypt or Pakistan that are famously not squeamish in their approach to interrogation”
-=snip=-
September 16th, 2007 at 2:51 pmWe all must stick together to be sure that our top priorities, Gay Marriage and Transgender rights, are accepted by all people. We must teach only true progressive values and ideas to our children and schools. We must fight for free healthcare and free college for everyone. Our boarders must be open so that anyone who wants to come here can do so freely. We must eliminate all nuclear weapons and power plants. Our elected (selected) government officials should be held accountable in an international court of law. If this judge stands for all of these Democratic values, then vote him in!
September 16th, 2007 at 5:22 pmI agree with the above comment urging the Senate to hold off on any confirmations until the DOJ & the white house comply with their subpoenas. Period.
September 16th, 2007 at 11:49 pmI suppose his first order of business is to fire all the U.S. Attorneys who do not support Rudy Guiliani. Another rigged election awaits us.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:43 am