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25 Nov 2010, 6:37 am by Kent Scheidegger
Nor does he qualify as such in the eyes of Adam Serwer, who writes on the Post's Plum Line blog today:Thiessen borrows the authority of former attorney general Michael Mukasey to bolster his point, but despite his admirable efforts to depoliticize the Justice Department following Alberto Gonzales's embarrassing tenure, Mukasey has become a much more partisan figure of late.So those who agree with civilian trials are "legal experts" but those who… [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 1:48 pm by Larry Siems, The Torture Report
" As we saw in Chapter 3, Durham was originally appointed by then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey in January 2008 to investigate the CIA's destruction of the Abu Zubaydah and al-Nashiri interrogation tapes. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 4:13 am
Durham was appointed in 2008 by then-attorney general Michael Mukasey to investigate... [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 12:40 am by Lawrence Solum
Here is the abstract:In the waning days of the Bush administration, Attorney General Michael Mukasey decided In re Silva-Trevino, in which he reversed over a century of immigration law precedent by creating a new moral turpitude test. [read post]
8 Oct 2010, 7:45 am by Kent Scheidegger
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has this op-ed in the WSJ.The plan was disrupted because we were lucky enough to have the key witness in detention. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 9:22 am by Kent Scheidegger
Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey will speak Monday at a Sacramento Federalist Society lunch event on The War on Terror: Where We Are and How We Got There. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 7:30 am by Susan Herman, President, ACLU
Some, like former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, took the occasion to argue that the same protection and understanding is due the government lawyers who wrote the memos condoning torture by American agents, because the attacks on the lawyers are "all of a piece. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 10:40 pm by Walter Olson
Washington Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders, who won a moment of fame nationally for heckling then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey at a dinner, may conceive himself as a champion of the underdog, but if the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s coverage is accurate, he doesn’t always manage to convey that stance in the most felicitous way: “Sanders said his job as a Supreme Court justice is to make sure ‘the smallest dog can lift its leg against the largest… [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 3:40 pm by mjpetro
Mukasey, 517 F.3d 513, 518 (7th Cir. 2008) ("[W]e have repeatedly held that an alien's right to due process does not extend to proceedings that provide only such discretionary relief because an appeal to discretion is not a substantive entitlement. [read post]
21 Jul 2010, 3:58 pm
On the same day Feinstein published in the Times, the man whom she helped to confirm as Attorney General in 2007, Michael B. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 8:35 am by Steve Hall
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft -- viewed as an aggressive death penalty proponent -- authorized 22 percent of 631 cases, while Alberto Gonzales said yes to 19 percent, and Michael Mukasey to 13 percent. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 8:31 am by Kent Scheidegger
Former AG Michael Mukasey has this op-ed in the WaPo responding to the Sullivan-Freeh proposal to form a US District Court in Guantanamo Bay for the trial of terrorists. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 6:34 pm by Bill Otis
Hat tip to Scott Johnson at Powerline for calling attention to this delicious piece by Jay Nordlinger:   Michael Mukasey was attorney general from November 2007 to January 2009. [read post]