Departing U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday that he saw no reason for prosecutions or for pardons for those who gave legal advice on the Bush administration's terrorism policies.

Mukasey's name was among those mentioned by the Democrats, particularly New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the White House nemesis who led the effort to oust the current attorney general, Bush pal ...

Mukasey will all but certainly be confirmed as the nation's 81st attorney general, and Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., predicted he may win unanimous support from Democrats who control Senate ...

Today he addressed the annual convention of the American Bar Association, and expanded upon what may be known to future generations as the “Mukasey Doctrine.” This doctrine holds that political ...

Mukasey's critics on the committee, led by Leahy and Feingold, should do everything in their power to re-frame the debate to focus on the broader question of whether a president can break the law ...

Mukasey noted that the United States is bound by its own laws and treaty obligations to prohibit torture, but he went further, saying, “We don’t torture, not simply because it’s against this ...

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.

Michael Mukasey, President George W. Bush's nominee to be attorney general, said on Tuesday he does not know if any waterboarding interrogation methods that may be used by the United States ...

Let's not let Loyola 2L completely upstage Yale JD, aka Michael Mukasey. There is still plenty of pre-gaming going on in anticipation of his Senate confirmation hearings. Here's a ...

WASHINGTON (CNN)-- Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Friday pressed Congress to pass an update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, saying its delayed passage makes it harder to track ...

Last night, Gen. Mukasey let the Senate know in a sort of constitutional Dear John letter that he wouldn’t opine on water-boarding today either, both because we stopped doing it and because it ...

Marc Mukasey, the son of Bush administration Attorney General Michael Mukasey, is mulling mounting a challenge to Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, sources tell The Post. But the younger Mukasey,… ...