Kenneth Anderson, Washington College of Law, American University:"I have caught just bits and pieces of the Gonzales confirmation hearings for Attorney General today. In general, he does not seem to have faced especially bitter attack - on the contrary, I...
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Gonzales nomination hearing transcript [US Senate Judiciary Committee]
Transcript from the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Alberto Gonzalez to be US Attorney General, January 6, 2005. Read the transcript text from the Washington Post here....
Tillers [Cardozo]: On a comment by Senator Brownback in the Gonzales hearing
Peter Tillers, Cardozo Law School:"Dear Senator Brownback: The department that the U.S. Attorney General heads is called the 'Department of Justice,' and not the 'Department of Security.'...Senator Brownback said that the first priority of the Attorney General is protection of...
D'Amato [Northwestern]: Protecting the President from prosecution
Anthony D'Amato, Northwestern University Law School:"Although the N.Y. Times and Washington Post have been admirably accurate in reporting the standard legal issues, they have overlooked the single most telling point in the debate about Gonzales, perhaps because of its subtlety.We...
President Bush has named Gerald Reynolds and Ashley Taylor to the US Commission on Civil Rights. Reynolds, formerly asssitant secretary of the office of civil rights in the Department of Education, is expected to replace Mary Frances Berry as...
Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, December 6.The US Supreme Court will hear 10 AM ET oral arguments in Wilkinson v. Dotson (case summary from Duke Law School), where...
Environmental brief ~ Australian minister calls for greenhouse gas regulation
In Friday's environmental law news, John Thwaites, Minister of the Environment for the state of Victoria in Australia, has announced that he will be calling on the national Environment and Heritage Protection Council (EHPC) to adopt a plan that...
AP is reporting that Attorney General John Ashcroft has resigned from the Bush cabinet, along with Commerce Secretary Don Evans. Ashcroft's resignation had been expected by some observers, albeit perhaps not until January. Possible successors include Senator Orrin Hatch,...
