Morford Named To No. 2 Spot At Justice Dept.
563765
President Bush named a longtime career prosecutor yesterday as acting deputy attorney general, filling a key Justice Department position at a time of widespread tumult over the U.S. attorney firings scandal.
664724
President Bush will nominate Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York, as attorney general, according to people familiar with the decision.
341060
Oklahoma is the only No. 2. After a week of sharing the No. 2 ranking with Auburn, the Sooners edged ahead of the Tigers in The Associated Press Top 25 on Sunday.
679084
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.
291456
What the Justice Department has said about six U.S. attorneys who were asked to resign. Under each prosecutor are comments from previous department-issued performances reviews and then statements Tuesday by William Moschella, an associate deputy attorney general, about the reasons given that the prosecutors were asked to step down. He testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee.
527432
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.
8445
As Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey nears the end of his second month, many of the Justice Department's top positions remain vacant or filled with temporary appointees with no replacements in sight, according to legislative aides and Bush administration officials.
40637
(CBS/AP) The Justice Department has reached agreement with a US citizen held as an enemy combatant for more than two years, clearing the way for him to be sent to Saudi Arabia, officials said Wednesday.
283750
President George W. Bush has settled on former U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey as his choice to replace outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.
378643
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.
474358
Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey was in the advanced stages of securing a lucrative corporate monitor assignment last year but withdrew his name after he was nominated to lead the Justice Department, according to lawyers familiar with the previously undisclosed arrangement.
482785
The head of the Justice Department's embattled Civil Rights Division is to resign at the end of August, officials said yesterday, making him the latest in a series of senior political appointees to leave the agency amid continued controversy over Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
636338
After winning the Australian Open Serena Williams has moved up to No. 2 from No. 7 in the WTA rankings released Monday.
191093
Former federal judge Michael Mukasey, a tough-on-terrorism jurist with an independent streak, was tapped by President Bush on Monday to take over as attorney general and lead a Justice Department accused of being too close to White House politics.
326408
President Bush on Wednesday nominated Alberto R. Gonzales, the White House counsel and a longtime political loyalist, to be his next attorney general.
562179
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.
527673
President Bush's second nominee for Homeland Security chief brings to the table long experience in Washington and in legal matters.