Bar complaints filed against Yoo, Bybee, Addington, Ashcroft, Gonzales, Mukasey, 6 others

Justin Blum at Bloomberg (h/t Zachary Roth at TPMMuckraker) reports that state bar complaints have been filed against twelve Bush administration lawyers involved in the authorization and sanctioning of torture by the United States of America, including two attorneys, Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo, whose disbarments I have long been advocating. [A complete [...]

Leura Garrett Canary

Crossposted at Oxdown Gazette.
Personal Information: Leura Garrett Canary

Name: Hon. Leura Garrett Canary

Employment: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama

Address: P. O. Box 197, Montgomery, AL 36101-0197

E-mail: leura.canary@usdoj.gov

Phone: (334) 223-7280

Date Admitted: September 25, 1981

Law School: University of Alabama

Leura Garrett Canary was nominated by Pres. George W. Bush to be the United States Attorney for [...]

Patrick J. Rogers – predictably and unbelievably – denies charges of Vote-Suppression

Crossposted at Oxdown Gazette.
Patrick J. Rogers is the New Mexico attorney who represents and advises the Republican Party of New Mexico on its voter suppression efforts. In this prior post , I documented how Mr. Rogers’ conduct in this matter violates the New Mexico Rules of Professional Conduct. Mr. Rogers “was too busy [...]

Had enough yet?

The Legal Schnauzer shares a letter he recently received. In his post, Message From a Political Prisoner, he describes the receipt of the letter as “a profound experience recently, something I never dreamed would happen to me as a U.S. citizen.” He explains:
My letter was from Wes Teel, a former state judge in [...]

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Earlier today, your boss, Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, testified before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Attorney General Mukasey concluded his prepared remarks with the following statement:
As I have said many times, to members [...]

Alberto Gonzales: Not just unethical, but criminal?

As reported by Jason Leopold at the Online Journal on February 29, 2008, (h/t nonnie9999), Alberto Gonzales not only engaged in unethical conduct, but likely also engaged in conduct that was criminal:
John McKay, the former US attorney for the Western District of Washington who was also fired in late 2006 for reasons that appear to [...]

It’s not paranoia if they ARE out to get you

The Washington Post’s Dan Eggen reported yesterday that
A federal grand jury in Alexandria has issued a subpoena seeking information about the confidential sources of a newspaper journalist who wrote in a 2006 book about alleged CIA efforts to infiltrate Iran’s nuclear program.
The Jan. 24 subpoena ordered the reporter, James Risen of the New York [...]