Bush court pick will hurt liberties
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Of the many disastrous consequences of the Bush reelection to the White House, none are more alarming than the potential impact to the United States Supreme Court.
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A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights.
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President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen former federal judge Michael Mukasey as his nominee for attorney general, the White House said.
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The incoming Democratic chairman of  the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to  combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time  trampling of American rights.
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A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorist and espionage cases criticized President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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White House officials, potentially vulnerable to prosecution in the wake of the Supreme Court's Hamdan decision, break out the big guns in a battle over detainees
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U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill.
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The Bush administration opposed in U.S. court on Friday an effort to peel back a secrecy lid over its domestic counterterrorism wiretapping program, which critics say infringes on privacy and rights.
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President Bush will resubmit to the  Senate a group of judicial nominees blocked by Democrats as too  conservative, the White House said on Thursday as it signaled  the start of a second-term battle over the make up of federal  courts.
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But you can trust me The judge who used to sit in charge of the American star chamber secret court issuing surveillance warrants says that his organisation should not have been sidestepped by the Bush administration in the wake of 9/11.â¦
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President George W. Bush's broad assertions of power in his war on terrorism are under assault by U.S. judges who have rejected his indefinite imprisonment of enemy combatants and the domestic spying program.
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The American Bar Association gave President Bush's choice for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia the lowest possible passing grade for judicial nominees, and sources said a Republican Senate chairman was expected to schedule a hearing next week on his nomination.
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Alberto Gonzales, nominee for attorney general, may face vigorous interrogation during confirmation hearings about his role in the treatment of detainees.
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President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen retired New York judge Michael Mukasey as his choice for attorney general, a senior U.S. official said.
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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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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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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.