Democrats examine Mukasey

Key Democrats warned they would delay confirming Michael Mukasey as attorney general unless the White House releases some controversial documents.

Democratic leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee warned yesterday that they would delay the confirmation of retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general unless the White House releases some controversial documents. Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the committee, said the Senate needs papers on the firings of federal prosecutors and domestic wiretapping program under Alberto Gonzales, who resigned as attorney general last month.

“Earth to Washington,” said The Wall Street Journal in an editorial. “You finally have the right man for the right job at the right time. Try not to screw this one up.” Judge Mukasey, whom President Bush said yesterday he had picked to succeed Gonzales, has been knee-deep in the “tough legal issues” at the center of the war on terror since “six years before Sept. 11.” Mukasey understands “as well as any lawyer” in the country “what is normal and what is not normal about the war on terror.” He is a serious man, for serious times.

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