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13 Jan 2007, 5:59 am
Gonzales said he had no problem with the current system of representation. [read post]
25 Nov 2010, 6:37 am by Kent Scheidegger
Nor does he qualify as such in the eyes of Adam Serwer, who writes on the Post's Plum Line blog today:Thiessen borrows the authority of former attorney general Michael Mukasey to bolster his point, but despite his admirable efforts to depoliticize the Justice Department following Alberto Gonzales's embarrassing tenure, Mukasey has become a much more partisan figure of late.So those who agree with civilian trials are "legal experts" but those who disagree… [read post]
5 Feb 2008, 1:39 am
Judge Ricardo Hinojosa will preside in the case, which centers on the Evins Unit.The litigation was brought by USDOJ's civil rights division, which for years under former AG Alberto Gonzales simply never pursued cases in Texas, so I'd attribute this case going forward, in part, to his departure. [read post]
30 Oct 2007, 12:52 pm
After Alberto Gonzales's troubled tenure, we cannot send a signal that the next Attorney General in any way condones torture or believes that the President is unconstrained by law. [read post]
As Daphne Eviatar pointed out earlier today, John Ashcroft isn't the only member of the GOP to have faith in federal criminal courts — Alberto Gonzales thinks they're the right venue too). [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 9:00 am by John Steele
       From ALM, here is news that Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is writing a book on his career in the Bush administration. [read post]
19 Oct 2007, 12:02 pm
" The Times said two subsequent Justice Department legal opinions -- implemented by then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales -- gave the go-ahead for interrogators to resort to physical and psychological tactics that inflict pain. [read post]
21 Jan 2009, 12:46 pm
"It would look like a horrible double standard for those who enthusiastically voted unanimously for Alberto Gonzales to turn down the first African-American or hold up the first African-American to be attorney general," he said.... [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 12:02 pm
The New York Times reported last night that the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, under Steven Bradbury, wrote memos approving the techniques and that then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed off on them. [read post]
9 Dec 2009, 8:12 am by Brad Wendel
That is from Alberto Gonzales's interview in Esquire magazine (h/t TPM). [read post]
1 Apr 2008, 2:22 pm
From that point, it just kept on giving right through the spring and summer — from the April resignation of Monica Goodling, who played a role in the controversial firings of eight U.S. attorneys, to the resignation of her boss, former AG Alberto Gonzales in August. [read post]
14 Sep 2007, 10:29 am
  We need only look at the disastrous period of Alberto Gonzales as the country's highest law enforcement official to see how vitally important it is to keep matters of life and death out of politicized hands. [read post]
31 Aug 2007, 8:52 am
The plan, which will be one of the last initiatives of Alberto Gonzales, is to make it easier for executions to be "fast-tracked" by states that want to avoid long appeals processes in the federal courts. [read post]
15 Oct 2009, 11:13 am
The Adam Walsh Act was made retroactive by then Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who was kicked out of office. [read post]
12 Jul 2011, 1:48 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Such an investigation should also include examination of the roles played by National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and Attorney General John Ashcroft, as well as the lawyers who crafted the legal “justifications” for torture, including Alberto Gonzales (counsel to the president and later attorney general), Jay Bybee (head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)), John Rizzo (acting CIA general counsel), David Addington (counsel to the vice… [read post]
3 Jul 2007, 7:01 am
" "Wolf told Attorney General Alberto Gonzales he had asked the state to act because 'the previously secret reprimand is not, in my view, an adequate sanction for Mr. [read post]
16 Sep 2007, 7:29 am
Bush's list of replacements for Alberto Gonzales. [read post]
14 Mar 2007, 7:15 am
Jeralyn has documented the thin ice Alberto Gonzales now skates on. [read post]