Bad News/Good News?

Ashcroft is out (Good news)--Alberto Gonzalez is in. (Don't get ahead of yourself--this is not the good news part!) Here's a brief list of questionable items regarding our new AG from the NY Times:

". . . Gonzales publicly defended the administration's policy - essentially repudiated by the Supreme Court and now being fought out in the lower courts - of detaining certain terrorism suspects for extended periods without access to lawyers or courts.
He also wrote a controversial February 2002 memo in which Bush claimed the right to waive anti-torture law and international treaties providing protections to prisoners of war. That position drew fire from human rights groups, which said it helped led to the type of abuses uncovered in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
Some conservatives also have quietly questioned Gonzales' credentials on core social issues. And he once was a partner in a Houston law firm which represented the scandal-ridden energy giant Enron."

Now the good news--at least he's occupied with a position that will last no more than four years--he COULD have been on the Supreme Court for generations!

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