Michael B. Mukasey appeared on Friday to be all but assured of becoming the nation’s 81st attorney general when two Senate Democrats broke ranks and said they would support the retired federal ...

Mukasey defended, among others, reporters in legal jams, including a Daily News writer who had printed secret grand jury testimony about associates of former New York Yankee Joe Pepitone, on trial ...

Mukasey also has practical experience with the news media. Before becoming a judge, he represented both The Wall Street Journal and the New York Daily News. And as a student at Columbia University in ...

Mukasey, who received a strong endorsement from Schumer, was the White House's first choice to replace Gonzales. Gonzales announced his resignation on Aug. 27, and the White House interviewed ...

Michael Mukasey, a retired federal judge, issued highly-conditioned statements that so-called waterboarding violates the Constitution only if it is defined as torture.

Retired judge Michael Mukasey, President Bush's choice to be attorney general, is by all accounts a stalwart conservative who generally took a hard-line, pro-government stand in terrorism cases ...

Nov. 21, 2008 -- Attorney General Michael Mukasey is "conscious, conversant and alert" after collapsing during a speech in Washington Thursday evening, according to a Justice Department spokesman.

Mukasey said flatly that the president's commander-in-chief powers do not give him the authority to order torture or cruel treatment, which are prohibited by U.S. laws and international treaties.

Mukasey acknowledged that the DoJ’s Inspector General found the department was politicized under Gonzales, but he would not say whether he agreed with that determination.

Mukasey, 66, was nominated to the federal bench in 1987 by President Reagan. During his tenure on the bench, Mukasey earned a reputation as a no-nonsense law-and-order judge, steeped in the ...

Mukasey responded that Congress cannot under the Constitution act to trump the president's power as commander in chief. Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy followed up, asking what the limits are to ...