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WORLD / America
Bush to pick Mukasey as attorney general
(Agencies)
Updated: 2007-09-17 19:57
WASHINGTON - Michael Mukasey, the man President Bush will nominate Monday
morning to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general, is not expected
to prompt the confirmation battle that Senate Democrats threatened to
wage if a more partisan nominee was chosen.
Rudy Giuliani, right, is symbolically sworn-in as New York City Mayor by
US District Court Judge Michael B. Mukasey, left, during a private
ceremony in New York in this Dec. 31, 1993 file photo. [AP]
A senior administration official said Bush will announce Mukasey as his
pick for attorney general in the Rose Garden and urge the Senate to
quickly consider the nomination to fill a key position in the Cabinet.
Mukasey, 66, a retired federal judge from New York, currently serves as a
judicial adviser to GOP presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani.
The New York native has received endorsements in the past from liberals,
including one of the Senate's most liberal Democrats. And while some
legal conservatives have expressed reservations about his record on the
federal bench, other conservatives are happy about the decision.
"While he is certainly conservative, Judge Mukasey seems to be the kind
of nominee who would put rule of law first and show independence from the
White House - our most important criteria," said Sen. Charles Schumer,
D-N.Y., a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
If Mukasey gets a nod from the Senate, he would take charge of a Justice
Department where morale is low following months of investigations into
the firings of nine US attorneys and Gonzales' sworn testimony on the
Bush administration's terrorist surveillance program.
"For sure we'd want to ascertain his approach on such important and
sensitive issues as wiretapping and the appointment of US attorneys,"
Schumer said, "but he's a lot better than some of the other names
mentioned and he has the potential to become a consensus nominee."
In 2005, the liberal Alliance for Justice put Mukasey on a list of four
judges who, if chosen for the Supreme Court, would show the president's
commitment to nominating people who could be supported by Democrats and
Republicans.
Nan Aron of the alliance said the Senate would likely view Mukasey's
nomination as a "conciliatory" act.
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