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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]
18 Jan 2005, 8:32 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales [official White House biography; JURIST archive] told senators Tuesday that any torture by US forces would be illegal [Reuters report] and that he supported reinstating a federal assault weapons ban [AP report] that was allowed to lapse in September. [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]
6 Jan 2005, 9:44 am
[JURIST] Two law deans, one a former Navy Judge Advocate General and the other a former senior State Department official in the Clinton administration, testified late Thursday at Senate confirmation hearings for US Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales that the permissive approach to torture and the concomitantly narrow approach to the Geneva Conventions adopted by the Bush administration [read post]
6 Jan 2005, 8:42 am
[JURIST] Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales faced almost six hours of Senate grilling Thursday during his portion of a day-long confirmation hearing that was by turns effusive, gruff, and scathing. [read post]
6 Jan 2005, 2:14 am
[JURIST] White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, President Bush's nominee for Attorney General, explicitly told the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning that "torture and abuse would not be tolerated" under his leadership of the Justice Department, that the Geneva Conventions would be honored "wherever they apply", and that the US generally would abide by all (orally emphasizing the word) its [read post]
5 Jan 2005, 8:07 am
[JURIST] A draft of Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales' prepared statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee intended for delivery at his confirmation hearing Thursday and obtained late Wednesday notably makes no mention of torture, prisoners, detainees, Guantanamo, Iraq or the Geneva Conventions, taking a speak-no-evil approach to a wide range of issues on which Gonzales is likely to face [read post]
5 Jan 2005, 3:05 am
[JURIST] White House counsel Alberto Gonzales personally sought a legal ruling on the extent of the president's authority to permit extreme interrogation practices in the name of national security in 2002, current and former administration officials said Tuesday, a revelation that could have serious repercussions in Gonzales confirmation hearings for the post of Attorney General slated for [read post]
4 Jan 2005, 2:35 am
[JURIST] Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales seems likely to face stiff questioning in his Senate confirmation hearing this week after the Bush administration's refusal to provide senators with copies of his memos on the interrogation of suspected terrorists. [read post]
31 Dec 2004, 10:27 am
[JURIST] The Justice Department late Thursday posted on its website a revised and expanded interpretation of criminal "torture" under the US Code (18 USC ss. 2340-2340A) a week before White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, who oversaw the development of a narrower interpretation articulated in a controversial August 2002 memo [PDF], is due to appear before the US Senate Judiciary Committee as [read post]
22 Nov 2004, 9:56 am
[JURIST] In a Monday editorial, the Washington Post opposes the nomination of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General, citing Gonzales' role in a February 2002 presidential memorandum that concluded that the Geneva Conventions should be set aside for "unlawful combatants. [read post]
17 Nov 2004, 1:03 pm
[JURIST] AP is reporting that President Bush has picked deputy chief of staff Harriet Miers as White House counsel, the post to be vacated by attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales. 1:10 PM ET - The AP story is available here. [read post]
16 Nov 2004, 3:32 am
[JURIST] The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has released a report on US Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales concluding that while he recognizes First Amendment interests in newsgathering and reporting, his record as a Texas Supreme Court judge and as White House counsel advising the President on such matters as Presidential papers, the Cheney energy task force and proceedings [read post]
11 Nov 2004, 3:02 am
[JURIST] Reaction to President Bush's nomination of White House Counsel, and former Texas Supreme Court Judge, Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as US Attorney General has been mixed, with most of the criticism citing Gonzales' role in setting administration policy on detaining and questioning people captured in the fight against terrorism. [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]
10 Nov 2004, 3:44 am
[JURIST] AP is reporting that White House sources have said that President Bush will select White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as US attorney general. [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]
26 Oct 2004, 12:36 pm
The DOJ draft, produced last spring for White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales but [read post]
17 May 2004, 9:12 am
A report in the May 24 edition of Newsweek is suggesting that a memo from White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales may have opened the door for US abuses of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other facilities by suggesting that the post-September 11 situation and the war against terror "renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its [read post]
19 Mar 2004, 11:00 pm
Here's our review of the major legal news stories that made headlines this week on JURIST's Paper Chase...Monday - White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales defended the US policy of indefinitely detaining terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying that they are ineligible for review of their cases in the US courts because the US is at war.... [read post]
