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9 Feb 2008, 3:37 pm
"Toward Drug Case Justice": The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, "Attorney General Michael Mukasey tried to scare the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday into blocking a responsible plan by the United States Sentencing Commission to address the gross disparity in penalties for possession or sale of crack cocaine and those for powder cocaine offenses. [read post]
9 Feb 2008, 6:20 am
Mukasey should be working with Congress to finally end the damaging 100-to-1 rule.From the NAACP:The NAACP was both saddened and offended by Attorney General Michael Mukasey's call for Congress to override the decision by the U.S. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 12:38 pm
What's up with Attorney General Michael B. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 7:49 am
Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) agreed to remove a hold placed on Judge Filip's confirmation vote after Attorney General Michael Mukasey answered Senator Durbin's questions regarding the legality of interrogation techniques. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 6:29 am
Michael B. [read post]
8 Feb 2008, 4:46 am
"Attorney General Michael Mukasey has voiced opposition to the early release of hundreds of federal inmates convicted of dealing crack cocaine, but some U.S. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 11:28 pm
.), who also sits on the panel, sent a letter Thursday urging Attorney General Michael Mukasey to clarify testimony given to the Committee during last week's Department of Justice oversight hearing. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 4:53 pm
Attorney General Michael B. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 8:44 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Michael Mukasey [official profile] Thursday rejected Democratic calls to launch a Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the CIA's admitted use of waterboarding [JURIST report] on three terror detainees. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 6:53 am
Here are excerpts:In a statement prepared for his scheduled appearance before the House Judiciary Committee today, Attorney General Michael B. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 6:44 am
Source: Crime and Justice News, February 7, 2008
"Attorney General Michael Mukasey today is asking the House Judiciary Committee to thwart a plan to give thousands of federal crack cocaine offenders a chance to reduce prison sentences that are a hundred times more severe than those meted out for powder cocaine offenses, says the Washington Post. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 2:17 pm
This ABCNews story and this AP piece both report that Attorney General Michael Mukasey is going to ask Congress to intervene with the retroactive implementation of the new crack guidelines. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 1:25 pm
"Mukasey Wants to Block Crack Releases": Lara Jakes Jordan of The Associated Press provides a report that begins, "Attorney General Michael Mukasey wants Congress to act within weeks to prevent the release of thousands of violent criminals from federal prison under new crack cocaine sentencing rules. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 1:14 pm
(Yesterday, CIA chief Michael Hayden admitted to waterboarding three prisoners.) 66 percent of Americans polled agree that if President Bush, Vice President Cheney or any other White House official gave the order to destroy the tapes either directly or through one of their subordinates, it would warrant a criminal investigationSir, it's clear that a majority of Americans would like you to appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate these … [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 12:19 pm
From the WaPo: Five years after a gay advocacy group was told that it could no longer use the e-mail, bulletin boards and meeting rooms at the Justice Department, Attorney General Michael B. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 11:02 am
Bad news from Attorney General Michael Mukasey today. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 7:51 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Michael Mukasey [official profile] is expected to testify [hearing notice] before the House Judiciary Committee [official website] Thursday in opposition to a unanimous December 2007 decision by the US Sentencing Commission [official website] to retroactively reduce penalties for crack cocaine offenders [JURIST report]. [read post]
6 Feb 2008, 12:14 am
Yesterday, CIA Director Michael Hayden confirmed that the CIA used waterboarding on three subjects.Hayden told lawmakers the agency had not used waterboarding in almost five years, publicly confirming information that was first reported by ABC News last year. [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 8:51 am
Here are excerpts:Today, FAMM calls on Congress to immediately investigate the breakdown at the Office of the Pardon Attorney and ask Attorney General Michael Mukasey how he intends to fix it.... [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 5:39 am
Bush will veto any terror surveillance legislation passed by Congress that does not include liability protection for telecom companies, a letter from Attorney General Michael Mukasey and National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell warned Congress Tuesday, according to AP. [read post]
