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Michael Mukasey's role in the Jose Padilla case

Bush's nominee for attorney general has displayed some impressive qualities of independence and a willingness to defy the president.

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  • Sunday, September 16, 2007 07:46 AM

    Bad, worse, worst

    Please excuse my lack of gratitude for the few trifles that GWB offers us, but it's hard to work up much enthusiasm for someone who, while he might offer some slight resistance to serving on Addison and Yoo's Volksgericht, still prefers Ordnung to libertas.

    I'm really, really tired of these folks who've spent their entire lives trying to resurrect the privileges of class for themselves and their buddies, and to justify doing so by whatever means are available to them, including endless war. While admitting that legitimate distinctions can always be made between the bad and less bad, I still find myself wishing a plague on all their houses.

    Glenn has more tolerance for reality than I do this morning, or most mornings, for that matter -- which is why I read him. Still, dyspepsia in the face these fine torturers of the law isn't as much of a crime as some make out.

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