Bushite Mukasey, Business As Usual In Bush's Politicized DOJ
Three items from the inimitable TPM shine a spotlight on Attorney General Michael Mukasey.
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking for his analysis of the legality of the CIA's detention and interrogation program.
Now, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Spector (R-PA) have sent a letter to Mukasey. Leahy and Specter, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting a thorough understanding of the Justice Department's inquiry into the CIA's destruction of secret interrogation tapes.
Prediction: They will receive a completely unsatisfactory reply.
It's business as usual at the DOJ under Mukasey, who is a loyal Bushite Republican and also Giuliani's good friend.
The Bush-Mukasey Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief supporting the Indiana Voter ID case coming before the Supreme Court in January. State voter ID requirements could also be called the 21st century's poll taxes and another example of voter suppression.
More from TPM: "In a statement, the Brennan Center for Justice, which has filed an amicus brief against the law and calls the case "the most important voting rights case since Bush v. Gore," denounced the Department's argument as an "extreme legal position."
"If accepted, the group argues, the standard set would mean "that there could be virtually no challenges to laws suppressing the vote before an election....This means that any law meant to suppress the vote would have already accomplished its goal of disenfranchising voters before it could be challenged in Court. Their position, taken to its logical extent, would allow jurisdictions to suppress the votes of tens of thousands of voters before a single aggrieved voter could get their day in Court."
As I wrote about Mukasey in my 11/4/07 post, "Bush Enablers Feinstein and Schumer Back Mukasey," "We don't need hypocrite and Republican lackey Michael Mukasey as attorney general. He doesn't think waterboarding is torture and believes the president is above the law. While smarter than Gonzalez (who isn't) this guy is cut from the same cloth as Bush and Cheney and believes in an imperial presidency."
Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer and the constitutionally challenged, imperial executive minion Michael Mukasey are birds of a feather: no integrity and Bush enablers; regular American voters be damned.
Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey asking for his analysis of the legality of the CIA's detention and interrogation program.
Now, Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Arlen Spector (R-PA) have sent a letter to Mukasey. Leahy and Specter, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote Attorney General Michael Mukasey requesting a thorough understanding of the Justice Department's inquiry into the CIA's destruction of secret interrogation tapes.
Prediction: They will receive a completely unsatisfactory reply.
It's business as usual at the DOJ under Mukasey, who is a loyal Bushite Republican and also Giuliani's good friend.
The Bush-Mukasey Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief supporting the Indiana Voter ID case coming before the Supreme Court in January. State voter ID requirements could also be called the 21st century's poll taxes and another example of voter suppression.
More from TPM: "In a statement, the Brennan Center for Justice, which has filed an amicus brief against the law and calls the case "the most important voting rights case since Bush v. Gore," denounced the Department's argument as an "extreme legal position."
"If accepted, the group argues, the standard set would mean "that there could be virtually no challenges to laws suppressing the vote before an election....This means that any law meant to suppress the vote would have already accomplished its goal of disenfranchising voters before it could be challenged in Court. Their position, taken to its logical extent, would allow jurisdictions to suppress the votes of tens of thousands of voters before a single aggrieved voter could get their day in Court."
As I wrote about Mukasey in my 11/4/07 post, "Bush Enablers Feinstein and Schumer Back Mukasey," "We don't need hypocrite and Republican lackey Michael Mukasey as attorney general. He doesn't think waterboarding is torture and believes the president is above the law. While smarter than Gonzalez (who isn't) this guy is cut from the same cloth as Bush and Cheney and believes in an imperial presidency."
Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Schumer and the constitutionally challenged, imperial executive minion Michael Mukasey are birds of a feather: no integrity and Bush enablers; regular American voters be damned.
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