What Pelosi Could Have Done: A Response to Chris Weigant
"What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?" the estimable Chris Weigant asked in a recent post. She could have defended her country. She could have ...
"What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?" the estimable Chris Weigant asked in a recent post. She could have defended her country. She could have ...
Robert Creamer | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
As a country, we need to emerge from this debate having placed the argument that "torture works" outside of the boundaries of acceptable political discourse once and for all.
CNN | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics
President-elect Obama has asked all U.S. Attorneys to "continue to serve for the time being" and is not demanding immediate wholesale resignations of ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN and CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — With briefcase in hand and a smile on his face, Attorney General Michael Mukasey returned to work Friday after collapsing during a ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics
John McCain is losing the race for the White House. Now, this doesn't mean he has already lost it -- we've still got to go vote, after all. I'll cov...
Paul Peete | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
No one expects Americans to riot or protest the war like my generation did. But we cannot let what the Bush Administration started continue into the next presidential administration.
Paul C. Light | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics
Mukasey declared the Justice Department hiring scandal closed yesterday. There was no criminal harm, he told the American Bar Association, therefore no foul. He is absolutely wrong.
Boston Globe | Peter Schworm | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Boston College Law School will not award its highest honor to US Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey at its May commencement amid sharp criticism from...
Wall Street Journal | YOCHI J. DREAZEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
One night last month, Jean-Pierre Larroque drove into the desert here, lay down in the road and waited for one of his best friends to waterboard him. ...
AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday he will refuse to publicly say whether the interrogation tactic known as waterboardin...
New York Times | PHILIP SHENON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
When the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey needed to find an outside lawyer to monitor a large corporation willing to settle criminal charges out o...
AP | PAMELA HESS and LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In a direct challenge to President Bush, a House panel said Wednesday it has prepared subpoenas to force CIA officials to testify about the agency's s...
HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the pr...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Mukasey, 66, was the White House's first choice to replace Gonzales. Besides Schumer and Feinstein, Democrats voting to confirm Mukasey were: Sens. E...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A Marine Corps lawyer told a House subcommittee Thursday the Pentagon blocked him from testifying that harsh interrogation methods tripped up his pros...
Congressional Quarterly | Keith Perine and Seth Stern | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Michael Mukasey appears headed for confirmation as attorney general before Thanksgiving, but Senate Democratic leaders are leaving open the possibilit...
CNN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
A majority of Americans consider waterboarding a form of torture, but some of those say it's OK for the U.S. government to use the technique, accordi...
New York Times | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In an effort to quell growing doubts in the Senate about his nomination as attorney general, Michael B. Mukasey on Tuesday declared that waterboarding...
New York Times | PHILIP SHENON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
All 10 Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee pressed Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, on Tuesday for a clear-c...
New York Times | JED RUBENFELD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
AT his confirmation hearings last week, Michael B. Mukasey, President Bush's nominee for attorney general, was asked whether the president is required...
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey is headed for swift approval with scant objections, the powerful Democrat who will chair his confirmation h...
Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey calls GOP presidential hopeful Rudolph W. Giuliani a "good friend" in new documents released by the Senate...
New York Times | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Judge Michael B. Mukasey, if confirmed by the Senate as attorney general, will recuse himself from any matters involving his close friend Rudolph W. G...
Newsweek | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
After president Bush settled on Michael Mukasey to be his next attorney general, White House officials were privately worried about how conservatives ...
Washington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The retired federal judge nominated as attorney general enjoyed a warm reception on Capitol Hill yesterday, but Democrats continued sending mixed sign...
Frank Dwyer | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics