Civil Rights Record of Attorney General Nominee Alberto Gonzales
Several nerve racking points in today's press release by the ACLU regarding attorney general nominee and current White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales.
The ACLU report calls on the Senate to examine a number of different potential blemishes on Gonzales’s civil liberties record, including: The now infamous Texas "clemency memos" drafted by Gonzales for then-Governor Bush, "which almost uniformly fail to mention key factors in each case, including evidence of innocence, that supported granting clemency to death row inmates".
"In terms of raw legal authority, the attorney general, especially after 9/11, is the second most powerful government official after the president," Romero said. "It is imperative that the Senate asks the tough questions to make sure the right person is in the job."
The ACLU’s report can be found at:
www.aclu.org
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