Friday, November 12, 2004

GONZALES

Josh Marshall notes, re: Bush's nomination of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General:

Democrats won't be able to prevent his appointment. But they should take the opportunity of his confirmation hearings to put him on the record about how he will handle these various on-going investigations, at least one of which directly involves the White House and thus also involves him.


It's unfortunate that so few seem to think that there is any possibility of stopping Gonzales' confirmation. Gonzales is the primary legal architect of some this administration's worst moves, notably the detention and treatment of enemy combatants, which effectively amount to a withdrawal from the Geneva Conventions. It is Gonzales' adept sophistry which has underpinned and sanctified the administration's secretive, anti-democratic authoritarianism.

If Gonzales's nomination as AG is, as is suspected, just a step toward putting him on the Supreme Court, then why wait to have that fight? Why not try to stop him now? Democrats always seem to be waiting for the fights that matter, well, this fight matters. Let's fight it.

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