Judge top contender to replace Gonzales: aide
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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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Outgoing US Attorney General John Ashcroft has served the country well for the past four years and will be missed. President Bush has nominated a well-qualified successor, White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez.
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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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A half-dozen or so lawyers are being discussed among administration officials as possible candidates to replace Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, but no clear favorite has emerged, and President Bush is willing to fight for the right candidate, administration officials and Republican advisers...
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A former aide to Jesse Helms and a former Interior Department lawyer blocked by Democrats last year will be the subjects of the first judgeship battles of President Bush's second term.
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Congress seeks a successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who will restore faith in the US justice system.
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The White House plans to nominate Thomas O'Brien, a career prosecutor, as the new U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, according to a Democratic Senate aide with knowledge of the decision.
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A federal judge on Friday ordered Time magazine to turn over documents for a former White House aide to use in his defense to perjury and other charges in the CIA leak case.
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A top aide to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has resigned, the Justice Department said on Tuesday, the latest fallout from the firing of federal prosecutors that has embarrassed the Bush administration and prompted calls for Gonzales to step down.
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The federal judge overseeing  Microsoft Corp.'s  antitrust compliance said on Tuesday  that she will rely on the Justice Department and state  attorneys general in deciding how to handle Google Inc.'s   concerns about Microsoft's Vista operating system.
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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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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 on Wednesday nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who helped shape the administration's controversial legal strategy in the war on terror, to be attorney general. He would be the first Hispanic to serve as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
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Former Solicitor General Theodore B. Olson, seen as a staunch partisan, is considered a top candidate to replace Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
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A judge who will decide whether Maryland's top elections official may keep her job on Friday questioned the attempt by the State Board of Elections to fire her, wondering how it might affect the November vote.
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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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The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales sought to improperly influence the testimony of a departing senior aide, two of its senior officials said yesterday, adding a new dimension to the troubles already besetting the nation's chief law enforcement...