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Someone Finally Decides To Stop The Torture?

Friday, October 26, 2007 – 10:05 am

I’m in shock. The Senate Judiciary Committee is talking like it actually wants to stop Michael Mukasey’s nomination to Bush’s Cabinet unless the judge explicitly labels waterboarding as illegal torture.
Senators Leahy and Durbin, the Committee Chair and Senate majority whip, respectively, are two fairly important members of the SJC openly declaring their intention to […]

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Letters To Mukasey

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 – 11:54 am

TPM (via Marty Lederman) has the full text of a letter written to Bush’s Attorney General nominee, Judge Michael Mukasey, expressing concern over his failure to categorize waterboarding as torture. All ten Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have signed, although we have no clear evidence that they will actually prevent Mukasey’s nomination in […]

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