Meet Michael Mukasey, Probably the Next Attorney General

Nick Gillespie | September 17, 2007

President Bush today is expected to nominate retired federal judge Michael Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general. Bush will hold a press conference at the White House at 10:30 this morning to make the nod official.

The decision allows Bush to sidestep the nasty confirmation process Democratic senators had promised if Bush were to nominate one of his earlier choices.

"While he is certainly conservative, Judge Mukasey seems to be the kind of nominee who would put rule of law first and show independence from the White House, our most important criteria," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said of the former New York federal court judge. Schumer had been a vocal critic of former Solicitor General Ted Olson, who was previously rumored to be Bush's top pick to lead the Justice Department.

More here, via National Journal.

reason on attorney-general stuff.

Comments

|9.17.07 @ 9:54AM|#

Is that his head or is his neck blowing a bubble?

|9.17.07 @ 9:55AM|#

I bet he'll be just great!

Just like the last two, only moreso!

Episiarch|9.17.07 @ 10:02AM|#

I'd like to hear from anybody who has a bead on this guy's tendencies. Maybe this isn't bad. However, any type of endorsement from Chuck (what does that rhyme with?) Schumer is a mark of Cain in my book.

thoreau|9.17.07 @ 10:03AM|#

Yeah, anybody whom both Bush and Schumer approve of can't be good. It just means that the Destructor will come in a bipartisan form.

|9.17.07 @ 10:04AM|#

any type of endorsement from Chuck (what does that rhyme with?)

Luck?

Episiarch|9.17.07 @ 10:09AM|#

sage, it is a Strangers With Candy quote.

|9.17.07 @ 10:18AM|#

I like to have hope, but what makes anyone think that Bush, after the god-dammed people he's picked for the last 6.5 years, is going to pick anyone better that horrible-status?

KoWT|9.17.07 @ 12:34PM|#

betcha the litmus for selecting another AG goes no further than:

can he keep the scofflaw in chief off the docket until after the '08 elections?

|9.17.07 @ 1:17PM|#

I like to have hope, but what makes anyone think that Bush, after the god-dammed people he's picked for the last 6.5 years, is going to pick anyone better that horrible-status?

A Democratic majority in the Senate, and a willingness by that majority to check the White House.

|9.17.07 @ 1:18PM|#

Bullies push as far as they can until they are stopped. Then they stop.

thoreau|9.17.07 @ 1:22PM|#

A Democratic majority in the Senate, and a willingness by that majority to check the White House.

Does that willingness exist?

|9.17.07 @ 1:25PM|#

thoreau,

On judicial nominations, it appears to.

Bush had two wingnut trial balloons shot down already.

|9.17.07 @ 7:11PM|#

I have been informed, that as a libertarian, I must now hate this man.