Bush to Renominate BYU&#39;s Griffith for Judicial Seat
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A BYU legal counsel is among 20 names that will be renominated by President Bush for judicial seats. Thomas Griffith was turned away in the president&#39;s first term because of a lapsed license.
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President Bush will resubmit to the  Senate a group of judicial nominees blocked by Democrats as too  conservative, the White House said on Thursday as it signaled  the start of a second-term battle over the make up of federal  courts.
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Following through on a promise he has made repeatedly since his victory in November, President Bush Monday renominated 12 candidates for federal appeals court seats whose confirmations were blocked by Senate Democrats during his first term.
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The American Bar Association gave President Bush's choice for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia the lowest possible passing grade for judicial nominees, and sources said a Republican Senate chairman was expected to schedule a hearing next week on his nomination.
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President George W. Bush has settled  on retired federal judge Michael Mukasey to replace Alberto  Gonzales as U.S. attorney general, The Washington Post reported  on its Web site on Sunday.
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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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High court may rule on the legality of President Bush's use of the controversial tactic to fill judicial vacancies.
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Bucking opposition in the Senate, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people for the U.S. Court of Appeals, including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.
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President Bush said Monday that he had decided to nominate Michael O. Leavitt, a former three-term governor of Utah, to be secretary of health and human services, replacing Tommy G. Thompson.
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Michael O. Leavitt, the former governor of Utah, would fill one of the last vacancies in President Bush's second-term Cabinet.
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President Bush will announce Monday morning that he has chosen a former federal judge, Michael Mukasey, as attorney general, according to a senior administration official.
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President Bush planned on Wednesday  to nominate White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales as his  new attorney general as part of a reshuffle of Bush's Cabinet  for his second term, administration officials said.
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President Bush's re-election makes it more likely Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist will retire soon. And Republican gains in the Senate mean the president has more flexibility to nominate another strong conservative to fill that vacancy and other federal judgeships.
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not in the way that the court counted in 2000. If President Bush gets to make his first Supreme Court appointment
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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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President George W Bush is preparing for his second term in office following his victory against John Kerry in Tuesday&#39;s election.
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WASHINGTON - Former Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt might be going from the frying pan into the fire with the announcement Monday that President Bush wants him to move from administering the Environmental Protection