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Anti-Torture Coalition Files Additional Information With Disciplinary Committees Against Twelve Lawyers Who Advocated Torture

On June 9, 2009, a broad coalition of organizations representing over one million members filed supplementary material with five state legal disciplinary committees in support of its complaints to disbar twelve Bush Administration lawyers who advocated the use of torture -- John Yoo, David Addington, John Ashcroft, Douglas Feith, Alice Fisher, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Chertoff, Michael Mukasey, Michael...

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John Cornyn's Judicial Dilemma

Big John Cornyn is all over the place when it comes to Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Last Friday Cornyn was forced to back-peddle his criticism of Rush Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich-- the real Republican party leadership. Now the Junior Senator has to back peddle his hard-line stance on the use of the filibuster. Rick Klein of ABC News has an interesting article on the GOP dilemma . On ABC's "This Week...

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Widening The Schism

There's no greater evidence of the split between the Wingers and the GOP right now than the Sotomayor fight. The Michael Steele wing realizes this is in every way a losing battle: Sotomayor is the most qualified Supreme Court nominee in decades, with the most federal judge experience in seventy years, appointed by Poppy Bush to the federal courts, plus graduating top of her class in Princeton and Yale...

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Morning Docket 04.14.09

* Former AG Alberto Gonzales might want to consult with Henry Kissinger (on planning vacations abroad when the world wants to put you on trial for war crimes). Spanish prosecutors are expected to indict him along with the rest of the "Bush Six" today. Columbia adjunct law professor Scott Horton gives a rundown of the political dimensions of the torture case. [ Daily Beast ] * Music producer...

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DOJ Drops Case Against Ted Stevens

Was the "fix" in from the very beginning by the Bush administration DOJ, and were the prosecution errors committed on purpose so there was no way that the conviction would ever be upheld? Or was it just garden variety legal incompetence that became a hallmark of Alberto Gonzales' tenure as US Attorney General?

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Spanish court to weigh case of U.S. officials

A Spanish court has agreed to consider opening a criminal case against six former Bush administration officials, including former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, over allegations they gave legal cover for torture at Guantanamo Bay, a lawyer in the case said Saturday.

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Ex-AG Gonzales returning to Texas with a story to tell

Members of Congress have not given up on investigating him for decisions he made as attorney general, and Alberto Gonzales remains under scrutiny for the Justice Department dismissal of some federal prosecutors.

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FAIRFIELD WEEKLY: The Inglorious AIG: “Obama and his treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, have ke…

FAIRFIELD WEEKLY: The Inglorious AIG: “Obama and his treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, have kept up this system (and our Sen. Chris Dodd rubber-stamped it, according to his own Alberto Gonzales–like recollection of the process).”

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Immigrant of the Day: Alberto Gonzales (Cuba)

Our Immigrant of the Day is former mortgage broker Alberto Gonzales (not to be confused with the former U.S. Attorney General) who just six months after opening his first restaurant in Chicago, Illinois is opening a second restaurant in May....

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Yoo memo on military searches in wartime in the U.S. now online

John C. Yoo's October 23, 2001 memo on the use of U.S. troops to conduct military warrantless raids inside the U.S. was released yesterday by DoJ and appears here. The memo is to Alberto Gonzales as Special Counsel to the President and William J. Haynes, DoD General Counsel. The Fourth Amendment argument is premised on anything goes in wartime, and it appears at pages 24-34 of the memo. Alternatively,...

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Liar, Liar! ~ In George We're Bust!

Brought to You By the Party to Elect George Bush ~ Texas Chainsaw Massacre Speaking of naked jailbirds... Smug bastards! Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will be arraigned on Friday in Texas, after a grand jury indicted them for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center. Cheney and Gonzales will not attend the arraignment. They have both signed up with Obama...

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A link to updates on Connecticut’s Own: special prosecutor Nora Dannehy

click here for a link to TPM Muckracker posts about the probe by special prosector Nora Dannehy into the firing of the United States Attorneys while Alberto Gonzales was Attorney General.

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Calling Pete. We have some questions for ya’

It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. (dripping with sarcasm) From TP: A federal grand jury has subpoenaed the records of former New Mexico senator Pete Domenici (R) as part of an investigation into whether “former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, other Bush administration officials or Republicans in Congress should face criminal charges” for the 2006 firings [...] ShareThis...

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Domenici’s records subpoenaed in U.S. attorneys probe.

A federal grand jury has subpoenaed the records of former New Mexico senator Pete Domenici (R) as part of an investigation into whether “former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, other Bush administration officials or Republicans in Congress should face criminal charges” for the 2006 firings of nine U.S. attorneys. Prosecutors, led by acting Connecticut U.S. Attorney [...]

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Perps update

Muckraker and Scott Horton have the update on Rove.Judd Gregg/Abramoff staff connection also at Muckraker, as is the sad story of a jobless Alberto Gonzales.Dianne Feinstein is not the most egregious of sinners, but.

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Alberto Gonzales: Victim of the War of Error?

The job market for disgraced top cops with questionable legal skills isn’t what it used to be and Alberto Gonzales now finds himself unemployed – reduced to giving speeches and doing the routine arbitration and mediation work of your typical ambulance chaser.