Bush to pick Mukasey as 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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White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales is the president's choice for attorney general, sources say.
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President Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general and will announce his selection Monday, a person familiar with the president's decision said Sunday evening.
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Attorney-General designate Gonzales will draw some terror-war questions, but is likely to be confirmed.
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In picking White House counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as attorney general, President Bush set the stage for political history: If confirmed by the Senate, Gonzales, 49, would be the first Hispanic to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer.
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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&#39;s Cabinet for his second term, administration officials said.
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President Bush opted to try to avoid a confirmation fight by nominating Michael B. Mukasey to be attorney general, concluding that the retired federal judge shares his approach to national security issues, but without the appearance of partisanship, administration officials and others close to the...
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday morning to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, is not expected to prompt the confirmation battle that Senate Democrats threatened to wage if a more partisan nominee was chosen
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With President Bush settled on naming Michael B. Mukasey to replace former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales, and intending to announce his choice as early as today, the man favored by many for the job has instead been passed over.
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Moments after President Bush announced Michael Mukasey as his nominee for attorney general yesterday, the cable networks jilted him for an old flame.
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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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President George W. Bush named White House counsel Alberto Gonzales as the first Hispanic US attorney general, elevating his top lawyer to help lead the nation&#39;s war on terrorism.
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US President George W. Bush on Monday formally nominated retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general and urged the US Senate to confirm him swiftly.
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Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday morning to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, is not expected to prompt the confirmation battle that Senate Democrats threatened to wage if a more partisan nominee was chosen.
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Solicitor General Paul D. Clement has the rock-solid conservative credentials to be President Bush's choice yesterday as acting attorney general but is more steeped in the world of law than policymaking. He has been mentioned more often as a future Supreme Court justice than as a member of a...
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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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President Bush yesterday nominated White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, a son of migrant workers, to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft as head of the Justice Department