Leading Democrat Senator Won't Block Confirmation of Gonzales
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President Bush's nominee for attorney general, Alberto R. Gonzales, was all but guaranteed Senate confirmation today.
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President George W. Bush's nomination of Michael Mukasey to be the next U.S. attorney general appeared virtually assured on Friday when two key Democrats declared their support, despite concerns by others about the retired judge's view of torture.
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The nomination of Michael B. Mukasey as attorney general encountered resistance from Democrats today.
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Senate Democrats are considering filibustering Alberto Gonzales' nomination to be attorney general over his role in developing the Bush administration's policies on treating foreign detainees.
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The Senate debated today whether to confirm Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general with a final vote likely to take place late this afternoon.
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WASHINGTON -- The road to Alberto Gonzales&#39; confirmation as the first Hispanic US attorney general might run through two controversial places: the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Texas&#39; Death Row.
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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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US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faces a Senate no-confidence vote, despite the backing of President Bush.
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Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales is promising senators that he will abide by treaties prohibiting the torture of prisoners, despite deriding the restraints as relics in 2002.
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Majority Democrats in the Senate are forcing their Republican colleagues on the record about whether embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should keep his job.
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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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Insisting he has no litmus test, the Republican in line to head the Senate Judiciary Committee pledged Sunday not to stall President Bush's judicial nominees, even if the prospective judges oppose abortion rights.
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Attorney General nominee Alberto Gonzales told the Senate on Tuesday that he supports extending the expired federal assault weapons ban.
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Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid vowed on Wednesday to block former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson from becoming attorney general if President George W. Bush nominates him to replace Alberto Gonzales.
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Attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey said yesterday that he would chart an independent path for the Justice Department after the tumultuous tenure of Alberto R. Gonzales, testifying that he would not be afraid to disagree with the president and would resign rather than implement policies t...
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Democrats raised new questions Tuesday about whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have known about FBI abuses of civil liberties when he told a Senate committee that no such abuses occurred.
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President Bushâs nominee to be the second-ranking official at the Justice Department refused to say whether he considered the interrogation technique to be âtorture.â