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 ...

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, the former chief U.S. District Court judge in the Manhattan courthouse just blocks from ground zero, earned a reputation as a tough-on-terrorism jurist with an independent streak.

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 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, the former chief U.S. District Court judge in the Manhattan courthouse just blocks from ground zero, earned a reputation as a tough-on-terrorism jurist with an independent streak.

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 ...

Retired federal judge Michael Mukasey was sworn in Friday as the nation's 81st attorney general, filling a vacancy left when Alberto Gonzales resigned amid questions about his credibility.

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 ...

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

Mukasey’s Paradox will now join other paradoxes such as Zeno’s Paradox. Indeed, members of Congress already use a variation of Zeno’s Paradox to explain their lack of action on civil ...

Attorney General to President George W. Bush, Michael Mukasey, appeared on 'Chris Cuomo Prime Time' Tuesday evening, and called out the CNN host for "misleading" his large audience about the ...