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• New leading choice for Attorney General says CNN

  Published: September 15, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Michael Mukasey, George Bush, Attorney General

  CNN's John King's reported the "Breaking News" that there's a new leading candidate for Attorney General: Former Federal Judge Michael Mukasey. According to King, Mukasey is acceptable to some Democrats. That, of course, means the wing-nuts are freaking out. They want a fight for Ted Olson.

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• Michael B. Mukasey New Attorney General

  Published: September 15, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Politics, General News, Attorney General, Federal Prosecutor, Law School Graduate, Michael B Mukasey, Michael B Mukasey New Attorney General, Michael B Mukasey Photo, Michael B Mukasey Video, Patterson Belknap, Rudolph Giuliani, United States Attorney, Yale Law Schoo

  Giuliani. Later, Michael B. Mukasey was as a member of the New York law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler. (more…) copyright @2007 Bu.bulicio.us attorney general, federal prosecutor, law school graduate, michael b mukasey, michael b mukasey new attorney general, michael b mukasey photo, michael b mukasey video, patterson

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• Federal Judge Mukasey Bush's Leading Attorney General Choice

  Published: September 16, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Politics, Conservatives, George W Bush, Republicans, Justice Department, Bush Administration, Ted Olson, Michael Mukasey

  the reported choice: Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge who is also an expert in national security matters. The former reported front runner: former solicitor general Ted Olson, a respected but supremely controversial conservative lawyer who was in on efforts during the Clinton administration to go after President Bill Clinton, played a key

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• Can This Man be the Leading Candidate?

  Published: September 16, 2007, 10:55 am

  Tags: Michael Mukasey, Attorney General

  more confirmable Michael Mukasey. Jeralyn, persuasively, sees him as definitely conservative but better than, say, Ted Olson. For example, consider this radical idea:Last month, Mr. Mukasey wrote an op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal in which he seemed to embrace a view shared by the administration suggesting current institutions

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• Bush picks his new AG

  Published: September 16, 2007, 6:30 pm

  Tags: Mukasey, Attorney General

  preparing to name Michael B. Mukasey, a former judge who was nominated to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Republicans close to the process told Politico."It came down to confirmability," said a former Justice Department official involved in the conversations.Isn't that something..he didn't want a

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• President Bush will nominate former Federal District Judge Michael Mukasey to be next Attorney General

  Published: September 16, 2007, 10:24 pm

  Tags: President Bush, Former Federal District Judge Michael Mukasey, Attorney General

  Sunday, September 16, 2007President Bush will nominate former federal district judge Michael Mukasey on Monday to be the next attorney general, FOX News has confirmed... Earlier, FOX News contributor and Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol told FOX News on Sunday that the selection was a done deal...Read the story in full at FOXNews.com

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• Michael Mukasey Fails to Incite Riots

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:58 am

  Tags: In Other News, Bronx, Michael Mukasey, Politics

  Mukasey, controversially unbothersome.Photo: APHow about that attorney-general position? It's as transitory as the seats on The View, no? According to the morning papers, the Justice Department's latest benchwarmer will likely be a local boy: Bronx-born Michael Mukasey, a retired federal judge with formidable experience (he was a

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• The New Guy Dept.: Meet Mike

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Doj, George W Bush, Justice Department, Michael Mukasey, Resignations, The New Guy Dept

  Attorney General, Michael Mukasey — he is qualified because he presided over “The Case of The Blind Sheik,” which sounds totally awesome. It’s like an Arthur Conan Doyle story! Anyway he’s a 9/11 hero and hey, the Democrats will confirm him, so Bush is on tv right now looking totally pissy because he didn’t

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• Mukasey's role in the Padilla case..

  Published: September 17, 2007, 2:34 am

  Tags: Mukasey, Jose Padilla, Attorney General

  I have frequently read about Mukasey this evening is that he is a specialist in national security cases, and he believes in the 'rule of law'..From Glen Greenwald's Salon.com column:Judge Mukasey repeatedly defied the demands of the Bush administration, ruled against them, excoriated them on multiple occasions for failing to comply with his

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• As Predicted Yesterday, GWB Has Tapped Mukasey for AG

  Published: September 17, 2007, 11:31 am

  Tags: Politics, George W Bush, Justice Department, Michael Mukasey

  Washington Post: President Bush today announced his nomination of retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to become the nation’s 81st attorney general, moving to install a law-and-order conservative at the Justice Department to help wage the war on terrorism while hoping to avoid a confirmation fight with Senate Democrats.

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• The New Guy Dept.: Meet Mike

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:43 am

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Doj, George W Bush, Justice Department, Michael Mukasey, Resignations, The New Guy Dept

  Meet our new Attorney General, Michael Mukasey — he is qualified because he presided over “The Case of The Blind Sheik,” which sounds totally awesome. It’s like an Arthur...

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• Mukasey an Expression of Bush's Weakness

  Published: September 17, 2007, 1:02 pm

  Tags: Opinion, Politics, Alberto Gonzales, George W Bush, Michael Mukasey

  they realize that Mr. Mukasey is the best they're ever going to do when it comes to a Bush administration appointment. And they also know that the alternative to Mr. Mukasey -- letting acting Attorney General Peter Keisler, whose conservative credentials and loyalty to the administration are more established than Mr. Mukasey's, continue on

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• Do I Really Have To Be The One?

  Published: September 17, 2007, 11:33 am

  Tags: Michael Mukasey, Attorney General

  retired judge Michael Mukasey to the position of Attorney General. Mukasey, who has been championed by New York Senator Chuck Schumer for years now, looks to be the penultimate consensus candidate, and from what I’ve skimmed thus far, it doesn’t look like there will be much blowback even among the left within the blogosphere.

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• A Non-lunatic For AG: Here's what we know about new Attorney General ...

  Published: September 17, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Non Lunatic For Ag, Michael Mukasey, Politics

  Here's what we know about new Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey: he is a Republican with Terror War cred thanks to sentencing the Blind Sheik to life, and so the only possible reason we... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Dept. Of Enemies Of The State: Wingnuts Furious Over Bush's Liberal New York AG Nominee

  Published: September 17, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Attorney General, Dept Of Enemies Of The State, Doj, George W Bush, Michael Mukasey, Wingnuts

  Guess who hates Bush’s compromise candidate for the vacant Attorney General job? Right-wing conservatives, that’s who! Let’s learn all the reasons Judge Michael Mukasey hates...

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