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31 Jul 2007, 10:27 am
[JURIST] A group of US House Democrats said Monday that they plan to pursue a resolution instructing the House Judiciary Committee [official website] to launch an investigation into whether to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Feb 2006, 12:45 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] Thursday rejected a call [letter, PDF; JURIST report] from thirty-one Senate Democrats to recuse himself from the ongoing investigation of Jack Abramoff [JURIST news archive] because he was too close to the President and other top officials associated with the lobbyist. [read post]
30 Aug 2007, 3:11 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice has begun an internal inquiry to determine whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] may have perjured himself [JURIST report] in testimony before Congress, DOJ Inspector General Glenn A. [read post]
Lawprof Bruce Ackerman says we should require Senate approval of senior White House staff positions.
11 Mar 2009, 2:20 am
"The challenge is to make it difficult for future presidents to appoint less-qualified officials -- such as Alberto Gonzales or Harriet Miers -- without serious outside review of their credentials. [read post]
16 Jun 2005, 7:04 am
[JURIST] Notes from a series of Pentagon meetings in 2003 show that General Counsel of the Department of the Navy Alberto Mora [Navy profile] warned high-level officials that Guantanamo interrogation techniques could expose them to criminal prosecution, according to ABC News. [read post]
21 Apr 2006, 8:32 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] said Thursday that the failure of Internet service providers to retain user records has impeded US Justice Department investigations into child pornography and said that the department is looking into setting "reasonable" data retention standards. [read post]
10 Nov 2004, 8:00 am
[JURIST] In an announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House Wednesday afternoon President Bush confirmed that he has nominated White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as US Attorney General. [read post]
19 Jan 2005, 5:57 am
[JURIST] Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] have forced a one-week postponement pf the vote on Alberto Gonzales' [official White House biography] nomination as attorney general because Gonzales hasn't answered all of the committee's questions. [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 4:13 am
The DOJ opinions, the first of which was released soon after Alberto Gonzales became US Attorney General in February 2005, reversed the DOJ's position that [read post]
22 Dec 2005, 9:53 am
[JURIST] Colombian prosecutors plan to file charges against former justice minister Alberto Santofimio Botero [BBC report] in connection with the 1989 assassination of Liberal party presidential candidate Luis Carlos Galan [Wikipedia profile], the attorney general's office announced Wednesday. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 9:50 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] and White House counsel Harriet Miers [official profile] were deeply involved in discussions about the firings of federal prosecutors [JURIST news archive], according to testimony [statement text] Thursday from former Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson [official profile] before the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website]. [read post]
16 Nov 2005, 2:17 am
[JURIST] Peru's Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a prosecutor's request to extradite former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori [personal website] from Chile so that he can face corruption and human rights charges in Peru. [read post]
29 May 2006, 7:55 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] and FBI Director Robert Mueller [official profile] held a private meeting with representatives from major internet service providers late last week urging them to retain customer internet activities to combat child pornography. [read post]
21 Feb 2007, 12:07 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales unveiled [transcript; press release] the First Freedom Project (FFP) [official website] Tuesday afternoon, a new Department of Justice initiative aimed at stricter enforcement of laws against religious discrimination and educating the public about their rights in this area. [read post]
27 Apr 2008, 3:39 am
Peter Conrad has a decidedly 1.0 review (or 0.0, if there is such a thing) of Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night (Yale University Press) in The Guardian. [read post]
20 Nov 2007, 9:16 am
[JURIST] The Supreme Court of Peru [official website, in Spanish] delayed the trial of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] Monday, granting a request by Fujimori's lawyers for additional preparation time and setting the new trial date for December 10. [read post]
16 Feb 2005, 9:50 pm
[JURIST] Newly appointed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Wednesday the reinstatement of a federal obscenity case against a California pornography company. [read post]
7 Jan 2005, 2:14 am
[JURIST] Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter (R-Pennsylvania; official website here) said Friday that he expected White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to be approved by his Committee and confirmed in the wake of Thursday's seven-hour hearing on his nomination for the post of US Attorney General. [read post]
19 Oct 2005, 3:38 am
[JURIST] Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori [Wikipedia profile; personal website] on Tuesday was cleared of corruption in a 1994 arms purchase case, a week after he was barred from running [JURIST report] in Peru's 2006 presidential election by the country's Constitutional Court [official website]. [read post]
17 Aug 2006, 1:42 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] on Wednesday praised new British anti-terrorism laws [UK Home Office materials] that helped thwart a terror plot [JURIST report] to explode jetliners traveling over the Atlantic Ocean, saying that the provision that allows British authorities to detain terror suspects for up to 28-days without charge [JURIST report] is a useful [read post]
