Bush Names Gonzales to Succeed Ashcroft
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President-elect Bush listens to Alberto R. Gonzales, his choice as White House general counsel, during a ceremony at the Governor&#39;s Mansion in Austin, Texas, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2000.
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Description: Official Washington had barely caught its breath yesterday over the resignation of Attorney General John Ashcroft, when President Bush announced his new choice for the top law enforcement job: White House counsel and longtime Bush confidant
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George W. Bush announced that he will nominate Alberto Gonzales, current White House counsel and a trusted advisor from his days in Texas, to replace John Ashcroft as the nation&#39;s top law enforcement official.
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President Bush named a longtime career prosecutor yesterday as acting deputy attorney general, filling a key Justice Department position at a time of widespread tumult over the U.S. attorney firings scandal.
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President Bush&#39;s expected Cabinet shake-up began in earnest Tuesday with the resignation of controversial US Attorney General John Ashcroft and longtime Texas friend Don Evans, the commerce secretary.
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U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday nominated a retired federal judge and law-and-order conservative to replace embattled Alberto Gonzales as U.S. attorney general.
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President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen former federal judge Michael Mukasey as his nominee for attorney general, the White House said.
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Alberto Gonzales was sworn in as US attorney general shortly after being confirmed by the US Senate.
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Alberto Gonzales won Senate confirmation Thursday as attorney general despite Democratic accusations that he helped formulate White House policies that led to overseas prisoner abuse and was too beholden to President Bush to be the nation's top law enforcement official.
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The man who may be Bush's choice to replace departing Attorney General John Ashcroft
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President George W. Bush named Texan Margaret Spellings as his nominee to replace former school superintendent Rod Paige as Secretary of Education.
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White House counsel Alberto Gonzales  won U.S. Senate confirmation on Thursday as the nation's next  attorney general with the second highest number of "no" votes  ever for a successful nominee for the post.
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President Bush is moving swiftly toward naming a successor to Attorney General John Ashcroft, and White House counsel Alberto Gonzales has emerged as the leading candidate for the job.
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President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen Michael Mukasey, a former federal judge and prosecutor, as his choice for attorney general, a senior U.S. official said.
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The leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee said that President Bush should appoint an attorney general willing to challenge the White House on legal issues and able to rebuild a damaged Justice Department.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush has accepted the resignations of Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Donald Evans, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said Tuesday.
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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.