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12 May 2010, 6:26 am by Bill Otis
Today former Attorney General Michael Mukasey chimes in. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds
IN THE MAIL: From former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, How Obama Has Mishandled The War on Terror. [read post]
18 Mar 2010, 8:00 pm by Jeralyn
(As an aside, AG Michael Mukasey wasn't any better as a judge in post-9/11 New York. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 7:12 am by John Steele
 A panel of the Second Circuit, including Judge Michael Mukasey, reviewed Chatigny's conduct and, using some guarded and nuanced language, concluded that Judge Chatigny's behavior was reasonable and not motivated by bias.UPDATE: I would not have have wanted to be in the shoes of anyone who was involved in that case. [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 8:03 am by Ashby Jones
Michael Mukasey at the WSJ: On the WSJ’s op-ed page, former federal judge and attorney general Michael Mukasey weighs in on the situation, essentially condemning the Keep America Safe position, while also tossing a barb toward those who criticized the lawyering done by Yoo and current Ninth Circuit judge Jay Bybee while serving as White House lawyers: A lawyer in public service, particularly one dealing with sensitive matters of national security,… [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 4:54 am by John Steele
 Today, we have a front page NYT story; an op-ed from former Attorney General Michael Mukasey urging people not to condemn either today's DOJ lawyers or the ones who worked there during the Bush administration for representing their clients; a more sharply partisan piece by Marc Thiessen; and a reply from David Luban at Balkinization arguing that his criticism of the torture memo lawyers was legitimate and Cheney's attack is illegitimate. [read post]
9 Mar 2010, 5:55 pm by David Luban
The argument is that anyone who criticizes the DOJ lawyers who wrote the torture memos, but rejects criticism of current DOJ lawyers who once represented detainees, is a hypocrite.One op-ed, by former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, supports both sets of lawyers, and denounces the Liz Cheney "Keep America Safe" conspiracy theories about them. [read post]
21 Feb 2010, 6:59 am by Jonathan H. Adler
At the Legal Ethics Forum, John Steele has an incredibly useful post rounding up links to documents and commentary related to the Justice Department’s OPR report on the  “torture memos” and AAG David Margolis’ memo, including drafts of the OPR report, responses from John Yoo and Jay Bybee’s lawyers and then-AG Michael Mukasey, and loads of blog commentary. [read post]
20 Feb 2010, 8:55 am by pfriedman
[Michael] Mukasey acknowledged that the Bybee Memo was “a slovenly mistake,” even though he urged us not to find misconduct. [read post]
19 Feb 2010, 5:39 pm by John Steele
On December 23, 2008, as the Bush administration wound down and the Obama administration was preparing to take over, the OPR sent a 191 page draft report of its investigation to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, asking for a very quick review and response. [read post]
12 Feb 2010, 4:30 am
Mukasey has this op-ed today in The Washington Post. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 9:52 am by Robyn Shepherd, ACLU
Notably, the judge in that case was Michael Mukasey, my predecessor as Attorney General. [read post]
15 Dec 2009, 6:03 am
 CRS won’t comment publicly on the matter, by it has been widely reported (here, here, and here) that he was fired for criticizing the Obama Administration’s decision to try some detainees in federal court and others in military commissions in a WSJ op-ed and [criticizing former Attorney General Michael Mukasey in a] letter to the editor in the Washington Post. [read post]
10 Dec 2009, 7:56 am
But so long as the reactions continue coming in from high level sorts like former AG Michael Mukasey, we'll keep writing. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 9:53 am
Bush's final Attorney General, Michael Mukasey and the current AG, Eric Holder. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 5:04 am
Michael Mukasey approved 21 out of 159 cases, so his approval rate was 13 percent. [read post]