Thursday, November 11, 2004

United States Attorney General?

Those of you who read this blog regularly know that I typically reserve titles to posts for stories having to do with particular death row individuals or the occasional post that I don't want to be overlooked. This is one of those...

President Bush has nominated Alberto Gonzales to be Attorney General of the United States (some say as a precursor to the US Supreme Court). I have much more of an opinion on this topic. Alberto Gonzales is not exactly a friend to the abolitionist movement and some of the greatest controversies over him while he served then-Governor George Bush in Texas involved the numerous memos he wrote to the governor regarding execution clemency requests. As a reminder, President Bush approved over 150 executions while he was governor of Texas.

What do you all think? I know you have comments. Will he be confirmed? Is this better or worse than Ashcroft?

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