This AG Nominy is No Friend of Justice


	This AG Nominy is No Friend of Justice

AtlLiberal

11-4-2007 6:56 PM

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politics, ag, bush, torture

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What are they thinking?

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<A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/thenation/cm_thenation/storytext/1248702/25080295/SIG=10qa2akrp/*http://www.thenation.com"><SPAN id="lw_1194215334_0" class="yshortcuts">The Nation</SPAN></A> -- <SPAN id="lw_1194215334_1" class="yshortcuts">George Bush</SPAN>'s nominee to replace disgraced former Attorney General <SPAN id="lw_1194215334_2" class="yshortcuts">Alberto Gonzales</SPAN>, retired Federal Judge Michael B. Mukasey, must be rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee for the same reason that Gonzales should have been rejected in 2005.                        
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