On the Path to Attorney General, Olson Runs Into a Roadblock
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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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The outgoing Secretary will not be a tough act to follow. But many veterans feel they need a better advocate
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With the resignation of key staffers and cash reserves dwindling, the Republican hopeful tries to keep his campaign from imploding
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For presidential candidates, the post-Watergate system of financing campaigns with public money has become the great divide. Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, who dropped out of the Democratic presidential race last week, is likely only the first to fall into the chasm.
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The choice of Alberto R. Gonzales as attorney general may be part of a strategy to bolster his credentials with conservatives.
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In picking a new Attorney General, Bush wants to avoid a confirmation fight. But he also needs someone who backs the policies that have angered the Senate
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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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The path to the nation's busiest death chamber winds through a court of last resort where the presiding judge recently refused to keep her office open past 5 p.m. to accept a last-minute appeal from an inmate about to be executed.
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The failure to end the debate leaves the future of one of the administrationâs chief domestic priorities in serious doubt.
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By SCOTT VAN VOORHIS  Massachusetts can be a tough place to get things built, developers have long complained.  And Gov.
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The department is fighting to retain power in an administration that has largely sidelined the agency as a policymaking tool and often shut out its top experts from White House deliberations.
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As the embattled Republican senator asks a court to withdraw his guilty plea, politics in his home state is in a holding pattern.
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Although they fell short of the 60 votes needed to bring the no-confidence resolution to a vote, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzalesâs critics mustered a majority with some Republican support.
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Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is running for New York governor, has found himself on a collision course with Sheldon Silver, the State Assembly speaker.
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RICHMOND -- Campaigning is hard. Governing is even harder.
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The Justice Department is scrambling to find willing replacements for nearly two dozen temporary U.S. attorneys, whose time in office is now limited under a law signed last week by President Bush.
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It was not clear if the investigation into Mr. Gonzalesâs statements to Congress is tied to the attorney generalâs announcement that he was resigning from the Justice Department.