January 27, 2007
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Andrew Cohen, at Bench Conference notes, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales “has achieved in just a few years what many legal scholars and court watchers had presumed impossible: he has made his predecessor, John Ashcroft, seem studious, grave and competent.”
To which I would add, Gonzales makes Aschcroft look non-political too. (I’m thinking of this abusive purge of key US Attorneys — replaced with loyal partisans.)
Worst AG of the past 100 years? It’s a fierce competition. Consider John Mitchell and Ed Meese for starters. But there are also a number of great ones on the list.
Posted by Michael : January 27, 2007 10:44 PM | Politics: The Party of Sleaze | TechnoLinks
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Posted by: Eli Rabett at January 28, 2007 11:57 AMI don't think Gonzales can match the raw malevolence of Mitchell (at this stage of his career at any rate). He strikes me, like so many of W's coterie, as rather a lightweight. Still, his recent riff on habeas corpus has to qualify him as at least a candidate for worst ever.
Posted by: BroD at January 29, 2007 07:16 AM