Bush to renominate 20 individuals for federal judgeships
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WASHINGTON President Bush plans to re-nominate 20 people who did not receive up-or-down Senate votes on their nominations for federal judgeships.
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Twenty retired federal judges, two rear admirals and a Marine general joined 383 current or former members of the European and British parliaments on Friday in urging the Supreme Court to grant detainees at Guantanamo Bay full access to the U.S. court system.
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Bucking opposition in the Senate, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people for the U.S. Court of Appeals, including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.
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White House officials consulted with the Justice Department in preparing a list of U.S. attorneys who would be removed.
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The US president, George Bush, is expected to name a retired New York federal judge to replace the controversial Alberto Gonzales as the attorney general today.
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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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President Bush will renominate a group of judicial nominees who were blocked by Senate Democrats during his first term, the White House said Thursday.
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A BYU legal counsel is among 20 names that will be renominated by President Bush for judicial seats. Thomas Griffith was turned away in the president&#39;s first term because of a lapsed license.
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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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After more than three years of battles over appointments, President Bush's ambitions for the courts are clear, but his record is mixed.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush moved quickly to nominate White House lawyer Alberto Gonzales yesterday to replace Attorney General John Ashcroft.
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President Bush will announce Monday morning that he has chosen a former federal judge, Michael Mukasey, as attorney general, according to a senior administration official.
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Refusing to be brushed off by Democratic opposition in the Senate, President Bush plans to nominate for a second time 20 people who did not receive up or down votes on their nominations for federal judgeships.
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President Bush knew what he was getting in 2001 when he made Reggie B. Walton one of his first picks for a seat on the federal bench: a tough-on-crime judge with a reputation for handing down stiff sentences.
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US President George W Bush nominates retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as his new attorney general.
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President Bush nominated federal judge Michael Chertoff as the new homeland security chief Tuesday, completing the second-term Cabinet with a former prosecutor who recently called for a new look at the tough terrorist detainee laws that he helped craft after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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A retired federal judge is a leading candidate to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose last day on the job was Friday, two sources told CNN on Saturday. Michael B. Mukasey was nominated to the bench in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan.