Several Top Positions at Justice Department Unfilled
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As Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey nears the end of his second month, many of the Justice Department's top positions remain vacant or filled with temporary appointees with no replacements in sight, according to legislative aides and Bush administration officials.
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As the Bush administration narrows a list of candidates to replace World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz, experience running a large organization has emerged as a primary requirement for the job, senior administration officials said yesterday.
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The Justice Department's top civil rights enforcer resigned Thursday following more than a year of criticism that his office filled its ranks with conservative loyalists
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A leading Senate Democrat asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Wednesday to clear up apparent conflicts in testimony from Gonzales and former top Justice Department officials about the firing of federal prosecutors and other matters.
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Companies and lawyers say the Justice Department is using coercive tactics as a bludgeon to force cooperation with corporate investigations.
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President Bush's pick to run the Justice Department is a talented and experienced lawyer. But does he have what it takes to turn around a badly damaged bureaucracy?
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The Justice Department's third-in-command announced his resignation yesterday, becoming the sixth aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to leave amid the political uproar over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year.
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Governors, campaign advisers and former presidential foes could end up in top Cabinet posts in a John Kerry administration, perhaps joined by a retired general and even a Republican or two.
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A string of e-mails between the Justice Department's Kyle Sampson and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers details the plan to fire U.S. attorneys. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he is "not aware of every bit of information that passes through the halls of justice," but he admitted mistakes were made.
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Officials said the investigators lacked the authority to offer the deals and that they could complicate efforts to prosecute the companyâs employees.
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The most highly paid executives in the Washington area oversaw companies with dramatically different track records last year.
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All but one of the U.S. attorneys recently fired by the Justice Department had positive job reviews before they were dismissed, but many ran into political trouble with Washington over issues ranging from immigration to the death penalty, according to prosecutors, congressional aides and others familiar with the cases....
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As his critics see it, Hans A. von Spakovsky used every opportunity he had over four years in the Justice Department to make it difficult for voters -- poor, minority and Democratic -- to go to the polls. During his tenure, more than half of the career lawyers in the voting section left in protest.
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Some Republicans are upset that the White House has nominated only 25 people to fill the 47 vacancies now on the federal judiciary. Not to worry. If history is any guide, President Bush can nominate as many people as he wants, but most of them will not don the black robes anytime soon.
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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey was in the advanced stages of securing a lucrative corporate monitor assignment last year but withdrew his name after he was nominated to lead the Justice Department, according to lawyers familiar with the previously undisclosed arrangement.
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Did the Justice Department dismiss eight prosecutors for cause? Or was it a political purge? The Democrats in Congress want to find out
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It was not clear if the investigation into Mr. Gonzalesâs statements to Congress is tied to the attorney generalâs announcement that he was resigning from the Justice Department.