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19 Jul 2006, 1:01 am
[JURIST] Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] on Tuesday, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] urged Congress to authorize military commissions [JURIST news archive] to try terror detainees following the US Supreme Court's decision last month in Hamdan v. [read post]
18 May 2007, 6:23 am
[JURIST] The White House reiterated President Bush's "full confidence" in embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [JURIST news archive] at Friday morning's press gaggle [transcript]. [read post]
30 Sep 2006, 4:22 pm
[JURIST] Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock [official website], speaking with reporters [transcript] Friday after meeting with US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and other American officials about the case of Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive], said it is unlikely that Hicks will face trial this year. [read post]
27 Jul 2007, 7:59 am
[JURIST] FBI Director Robert Mueller on Thursday contradicted testimony given by US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales earlier this week concerning a 2004 discussion of intelligence activities. [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 8:30 am
[JURIST] Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of human rights abuses for allegedly ordering the 1992 murder of 25 people, including a professor and nine students at the so-called La Cantuta massacre [backgrounder] at Lima's La Cantuta University. [read post]
2 Feb 2005, 11:30 pm
The US Senate [official website] convenes at 9:00 AM ET today, and it is expected to vote on the nomination of Alberto Gonzales for attorney general. [read post]
26 Aug 2005, 2:10 am
[JURIST] The American Civil Liberties Union [advocacy website] announced Thursday that it, along with an unnamed library, has filed suit [press release] in the US District Court of Connecticut against US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller challenging the constitutionality of a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act [PDF text]. [read post]
11 Nov 2005, 5:15 am
[JURIST] Peru announced Thursday that it is removing its ambassador from Japan to protest Tokyo's refusal to extradite former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori [Wikipedia profile; personal website]. [read post]
18 Jul 2006, 4:45 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] told the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] Tuesday that President Bush personally put an end to an internal Justice Department investigation into the role DOJ lawyers played in designing the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
11 Jul 2007, 8:06 am
[JURIST] A Chilean judge rejected a request by Peru [press release, in Spanish] Wednesday seeking the extradition [JURIST report] of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori [personal website; JURIST news archive], who has been charged in his former country with corruption and human rights violations. [read post]
24 Jul 2009, 4:38 am
[JURIST] Spanish police announced Friday that they have arrested Jorge Alberto Soza, wanted in his home country of Argentina on torture charges stemming from his service in the police force during the the country's military dictatorship. [read post]
4 Nov 2004, 7:59 am
Possible replacements include Ashcroft's former deputy, Larry Thompson, who would become the first African-American attorney general; Marc Racicot, Bush's campaign manager; and White House general counsel Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
9 Mar 2007, 12:21 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told senators in a private meeting Thursday that the Bush administration would drop its objection to proposed legislation requiring Senate confirmation of all US Attorneys, reversing a rule change approved a year ago in the Patriot Act reauthorization [JURIST report; HR 3199 text, PDF] allowing the Attorney General to replace removed US attorneys with [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 1:19 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] told the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) [association website] Thursday that to keep guns away from the mentally ill, all states must upgrade their reporting [speech text] to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) [FBI backgrounder]. [read post]
10 Nov 2005, 9:06 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice has submitted a body of proposed laws to Congress that would strengthen federal intellectual property enforcement, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] announced Thursday during remarks at an anti-piracy meeting [official text] in Washington, DC. [read post]
1 Apr 2007, 8:21 am
Bush [official profile] again defended US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile] over his role in the firings of federal prosecutors [JURIST news archive] in a press conference [transcript] Saturday, saying that Gonzales has his "full confidence. [read post]
16 May 2007, 7:18 am
And today in The Washington Post, columnist Harold Meyerson has an op-ed entitled "The Cost of a GOP Myth" that begins, "If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales clings to his job much longer, he may end up as the only remaining employee of the Justice Department. [read post]
4 Apr 2006, 3:32 am
[JURIST] Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori [personal website; JURIST news archive] will be extradited from Chile to Peru [JURIST news archives] to face corruption and human rights charges before this summer, Peru's Justice Minister Alejandro Tudela [official profile, in Spanish] said Tuesday. [read post]
24 Jul 2007, 11:29 am
Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website] told Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday that he should consider appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the US Attorneys firing scandal [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
31 Dec 2008, 5:14 am
"Gonzales Defends Role in Antiterror Policies": Today in The Wall Street Journal, Evan Perez has an article that begins, "Alberto Gonzales, who has kept a low profile since resigning as attorney general nearly 16 months ago, said he is writing a book to set the record straight about his controversial tenure as a senior official in the Bush administration. [read post]
