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13 Jun 2018, 12:56 pm by Heather Cobun
Gonzales, a former U.S. attorney general under George W. [read post]
24 Apr 2018, 4:00 am by Bob Bauer
The legally accountable officials or their representatives should be present, of course: In the Clinton email case, that would be the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, and their key senior advisers. [read post]
15 Apr 2018, 12:14 pm by John Floyd
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales nearly finalized most of the requirements the states would have to meet concerning providing competent counsel in their post-conviction processes in order to benefit from the expedited habeas review process of AEDPA. [read post]
26 Nov 2017, 5:35 am by Marty Lederman
”  Thus, for example, OLC concluded in 2007 that President Bush could use the VRA to appoint Peter Keisler, then head of the Civil Division, to be acting Attorney General after Alberto Gonzales resigned, notwithstanding a statute providing that the office of Attorney General is vacant, the Deputy Attorney General “mayexercise all the duties of that office. [read post]
8 Sep 2017, 7:00 am by John McKay
 The scandal that flowed from that moment rocked the country and resulted in the resignation of top Justice Department officials, including the attorney general, Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
29 Jul 2017, 2:06 pm by John E. Bies
  After Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned, a 2007 Office of Legal Counsel opinion held that the president could designate the assistant attorney general for the Civil Division to serve as acting attorney general under the VRA notwithstanding the fact that a Senate-confirmed solicitor general was available to serve pursuant to the attorney general’s designation under section 508. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 2:28 pm by Amy Howe and Mark Walsh
There is a long list of prominent Republicans in the audience, including former attorneys general Edwin Meese (under President Ronald Reagan) and John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey (under President George W. [read post]
12 Jun 2017, 10:04 pm by Bill Otis
 It would be surprising if it did not also forge a permanent bond with Mueller.It was Comey, as Deputy Attorney General, and Mueller, then head of the FBI, who together confronted White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in the hospital bedroom of then-seriously ill Attorney General John Ashcroft in a successful attempt to block the White House from implementing a surveillance protocol Gonzales and, tentatively, President Bush… [read post]
18 Mar 2017, 10:40 am by Benjamin Wittes
SCHUMER: Were you present when Alberto Gonzales visited Attorney General Ashcroft's bedside? [read post]
28 Nov 2016, 12:06 pm by Chris Mirasola
For example, in 2002 White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush that the war on terror had “rendere[ed] obsolete [the Geneva Convetions’] strict limitations on questions of enemy prisoners and render[ed] quaint some of its provisions,” paving the way for the administration’s approval of enhanced interrogation practices (including waterboarding). [read post]
18 Nov 2016, 12:28 pm by Chris Mirasola
The exception is Alberto Gonzales, who previously served as a Justice of the Texas Supreme Court and counsel to President George W. [read post]
5 Jun 2016, 1:13 pm by Ilya Somin
However, former Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has (partially) come to Trump’s defense. [read post]
5 Jun 2016, 10:53 am by Steve Lubet
Invoking the Code of Conduct for Federal Judges, the former U.S. attorney general... [read post]
5 Jun 2016, 10:52 am by Steve Lubet
  It is too bad that Alberto Gonzales – former judge, former attorney general, and current law school dean – took the route of apologetics. [read post]
5 Jun 2016, 10:07 am by Walter Olson
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales kinda-sorta defends the propriety of litigants’ blasting judges, though in a left-handed way (“if I were a litigant who was concerned about the judge’s impartiality, I certainly would not deal with it in a public manner as Trump has, because it demeans the integrity of the judicial office and thus potentially undermines the independence of the judiciary, especially coming from a man who could be president by this… [read post]
5 Jun 2016, 9:56 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Last week, however, former Attorney General (and Texas Supreme Court justice) Alberto Gonzales rose to Trump’s defense. [read post]
22 Apr 2016, 2:32 pm by Jack Sharman
Attorney General at the time, Alberto Gonzales, who eventually dismissed him along with eight other U.S. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 10:08 am by Alan J. Borsuk
Bush and chief of staff to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
15 Jul 2015, 10:02 pm by Dan Flynn
Bush’s Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned and Michael Mukasey was appointed and confirmed to that office. [read post]