Bush to pick Mukasey as attorney general
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, will likely see a less hostile confirmation environment than someone considered more partisan.
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WASHINGTON - US President George W. Bush on Wednesday tapped the White House general counsel for the post of attorney general, US broadcaster CNN reported.
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Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge regarded as an expert on national security issues, has emerged as the leading candidate to replace Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general, several conservatives close to the White House said yesterday.
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President Bush has picked White  House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales, a trusted adviser from  Texas and prominent Hispanic, as his new attorney general, and  planned to announce it on Wednesday, administration officials  said.
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Former federal judge Michael Mukasey has accepted President Bush's offer to replace Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general, two government sources familiar with the president's selection said Sunday.
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Former federal judge Michael Mukasey, a tough-on-terrorism jurist with an independent streak, was tapped by President Bush on Monday to take over as attorney general and lead a Justice Department accused of being too close to White House politics.
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President Bush on Wednesday nominated Alberto R. Gonzales, the White House counsel and a longtime political loyalist, to be his next attorney general.
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Former federal judge Michael Mukasey, picked by President Bush to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, appears unlikely to face a bruising confirmation battle in the Democratic-controlled Senate.
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Retired federal judge Michael Mukasey, the president's nominee to succeed Alberto Gonzales, has aired a largely favorable public view of the controversial law.
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Former U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey, nominated to the federal bench two decades ago by Republican President Ronald Reagan, has emerged as the new leading contender to replace outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a senior Republican Party aide said on Sunday.
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President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen retired New York judge Michael Mukasey as his choice for attorney general, a senior U.S. official said.
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In his first key appointment since the election, President Bush has chosen to replace outgoing Attorney General John D. Ashcroft with White House Counsel Alberto R. Gonzales, a lawyer who was described in a Nov.
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Attorney General-nominee Michael Mukasey refused to say Thursday whether he considers waterboarding a form of torture, frustrating Democrats and potentially slowing his confirmation to head the Justice Department.
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President Bush today announced that he would nominate Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York, as attorney general.
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By nominating National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to become secretary of state and White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to become attorney general, President Bush is sending a clear message.
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President Bush nominated as his new  attorney general on Wednesday the top White House lawyer,  Alberto Gonzales, a son of migrant workers who rose to become a  confidant of Bush and helped shape legal opinions about  prisoner treatment in the war on terror.
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ALBERTO Gonzales, the White House legal adviser once embroiled in the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, was named by President George Bush yesterday as US Attorney-General.