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Docuticker (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Joint Statement of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller on the Issuance of the Attorney General Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation “Since the 9/11 attacks, the FBI and the Department of Justice more broadly have set priorities for and reorganized their activities to prevent future [...]
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Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
[Guest post by DRJ] Six Republicans in Congress have written a letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey asking the DOJ to investigate vote fraud by ACORN. The Representatives urge the DOJ to assist State officials in their investigations of vote fraud. They also express concern that “the recent letters and press release by [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ranking members on the relevant committees and four former state Secretaries of State currently serving in Congress today sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting the Dep...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ranking members on the relevant committees and four former state Secretaries of State currently serving in Congress today sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting the Dep...
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Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 : NEW YORK - In a radical departure from years of legal precedent, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is considering ending the practice of allowing immigrants to reopen cases that they lost because of their lawyers' mistakes or incompetence. Mukasey announced that he was considering the issue late this summer and then imposed the unrealistic deadline of October...
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
... the government to monitor communications that begin or end overseas.Attorney General Michael Mukasey this month signed new guidelines on Federal Bureau of Investigation operations that critics say will give it broad new powers to conduct surveillance and use other intrusive investigative techniques on Americans.And the administration won a stay of the court order releasing the Uighurs, and...
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ACLU (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
NEW YORK – In a radical departure from years of legal precedent, Attorney General Michael Mukasey is considering ending the practice of allowing immigrants to reopen cases that they lost because of their lawyers' mistakes or incompetence. Mukasey announced that he was considering the issue late this summer and then imposed the unrealistic deadline of October 6 for interested parties to...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ranking members on
the relevant committees and four former state Secretaries of State
currently serving in Congress today sent a letter to Attorney General
Michael Mukasey requesting the Department of Justice ensure that the
actions of ACORN did not violate federal laws or harm the validity of our
elections.
The letter signed by Reps. Roy...
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... Adam Szubin, director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control, and Attorney General Michael Mukasey.The lawsuit asks that the freeze order on KindHearts’ assets be vacated so that the group can pay for its own defense. It also seeks for the court to declare the provision that allows funds to be frozen without explanation or review be ruled unconstitutional.“Here you have a U.S. charity that...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
... to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. * Several House Republicans asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to probe whether ACORN actions violated federal laws. ACORN's actions are being probed in at least 10 states, including an investigation in the Cleveland area. Three people who have been subpoenaed there told The Post they were hounded by the group's workers to register multiple times, even...
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Family Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
A press release from the CENTER FOR GENDER & REFUGEE STUDIES at UC-Hastings College of Law entitled " New Ruling by Attorney General Mukasey May Endanger Rights of Women Asylum Seekers." In a move that could change the course of...
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Windypundit (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
... Attorney General Alberto Gonazles for starting this mess and current Attorney General Michael Mukasey for continuing it. A big "Fuck you!" to prosecutor Lisa Maria Freitas, who did the dirty work in the courtroom. And finally, a big, painful, pound-you-in-the-ass "FUCK YOU!" goes out to the entire Obscentity Prosecution Task Force. Sorry about all the swearing. I don't normally use the word...
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National Review Online (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Last week, Attorney General Michael Mukasey tempted fate by appointing a quasi-independent counsel — an experienced, respected career prosecutor from outside Washington — to investigate a non-crime inflated to a scandal by Democrats’ demagoguery: the 2006 firing of nine district United States attorneys. We can only hope the result is not another Scooter Libby debacle.Mukasey’s hand was...
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The Hill's Pundit Blog (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
Nearly lost in the presidential race and the pressures of the financial crisis was news last week that Attorney General Michael Mukasey had appointed a federal prosecutor, Nora Dannehy, to continue the internal Justice Department inquiry into the controversial firings of nine federal prosecutors.
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Leonard Link (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
A divided 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel has affirmed the BIA’s decision to refuse asylum to a gay Guatemalan man, on the ground that he wrecked his credibility by fabricating his original petition for asylum in 1992. Martinez v. Mukasey, 2008 Westlaw 4459090 (Oct. 6, 2008). Stephen Trott wrote for the court, with Harry Pregerson dissenting. The Guatemalan man fled Guatemala late in 1991,...
