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Attorney General

Senate confirms Mukasey
Six Democrats defect, making the waterboarding equivocator America's top lawyer.
Nov 9, 2007
The sad decline of Michael Mukasey
His reputation for integrity was meant to restore credibility to the Justice Department. Instead, his remarks on waterboarding show that he, like Alberto Gonzales, has let the White House call the shots.
By Sidney Blumenthal Nov 1, 2007
The dismal legacy of Bush's top yes man
Alberto Gonzales' successor will face a heckuva job rectifying the damage the attorney general did to American justice.
By David Cole Aug 28, 2007
Why did Gonzales resign?
Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn.
By Sidney Blumenthal Aug 27, 2007
The attorney general's "tremendous credibility problem"
Republicans and Democrats alike pummeled Alberto Gonzales in a daylong hearing that left the future of his job in doubt.
By Michael Scherer Apr 20, 2007
The U.S. attorneys scandal gets dirty
As Congress prepares to grill Alberto Gonzales, Salon has uncovered another partisan issue connected to the mass firings: Pornography.
By Mark Follman Apr 19, 2007
All roads lead to Rove
The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.
By Sidney Blumenthal Mar 15, 2007
Why we should make attorney general an elective office
Like Watergate, the unfolding U.S. attorneys scandal proves that it's dangerous for the nation's chief law enforcement officer to be an appointed crony of the president.
By Garrett Epps Mar 9, 2007
The facilitator
When Alberto Gonzales briefed George W. Bush on the cases of Texas death row inmates up for clemency, his memos were so shabby they seemed intended solely to make it easy for Bush to send prisoners to their deaths.
By Alan Berlow Jan 6, 2005
Less safe, less free
John Ashcroft's war on terrorism has done enormous damage to our liberties -- and he has few tangible results to show for it.
By David Cole Nov 19, 2004
Ashcroft in bondage
An interview with S/M photographer Barbara Nitke about her lawsuit against the attorney general, her art, and the thousand-yard stare.
By David Bowman Jul 22, 2002
Dems fold on Ashcroft
By Alicia Montgomery
Feb 5, 2001
Round 2: Ashcroft wins over a Democrat
Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein.
By Alicia Montgomery Jan 18, 2001
Get Ronnie White, Round 2
In their battle for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft, Republicans are once again attacking the Missouri Supreme Court justice whose federal judgeship Ashcroft scuttled.
By Eric Boehlert Jan 11, 2001
John Ashcroft's big mistake
He denied Ronnie White a federal judgeship for being soft on crime, when his real grudge was against his pro-choice politics -- and the move cost him his Senate seat.
By Eric Boehlert Jan 8, 2001
Ashcroft whistles Dixie
Bush's attorney general nominee is only the latest conservative lawmaker caught pandering to fans of the Confederacy in a tiny but powerful Southern journal.
By Alicia Montgomery Jan 3, 2001
"A clear and present danger to American women"
Pro-choice activists criticize the appointment of conservative John Ashcroft as the Bush administration's attorney general.
By Daryl Lindsey Dec 22, 2000
Elian's closing chapter?
A legal expert says the Cuban boy's legal saga is slowly winding down.
By Daryl Lindsey Jun 2, 2000
Letting go of Thomas
The baby's abuser is still uncharged, but the issue of his death -- in surrender or at the end of painful medical heroics -- finally reaches the court.
By Beth Broeker Apr 25, 2000
Reno's redemption
The attorney general robs Little Havana of its most potent symbol and redeems her last months in office.
By Bruce Shapiro Apr 22, 2000
"It reads like a novel"
Judge Jackson's findings are music to prosecutors' ears -- but Microsoft says it's guilty of nothing more than embodying "the most basic American values."
By Janelle Brown Nov 6, 1999
Kenneth Starr has lost his credibility
Legal experts raise questions about the prosecutor's apparent conflicts of interest.
By Joe Conason and Murray Waas Apr 8, 1998
Kenneth Starr has lost his credibility
Legal experts raise questions about the prosecutor's apparent conflicts of interest.
By Joe Conason and Murray Waas Mar 30, 1998
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