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  Alberto Gonzales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alberto R. Gonzales (born August 4, 1955) is the 80th and current Attorney General of the United States, becoming the first Hispanic to serve in the position.
This is a list of cases in which Alberto Gonzales wrote the court opinion, wrote a concurring opinion, or wrote a dissent.
Decision Re Application of the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War to the Conflict with Al Qaeda and the Taliban, Memorandum for the President, January 25, 2002.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alberto_Gonzales   (2656 words)

  
 Architect of Abu Ghraib Torture is Bush's Pick for Attorney General
Not only was White House attorney Alberto Gonzalez (Bush's Pick for Attorney General) the architect of Abu Ghraib torture (scroll down for more info), he is a big proponent for abortion.
Read Who is Alberto Gonzalez for more information on the true nature of this shady character Bush would have as our Attorney General.
George W. Bush's pick for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, is the White House attorney who advised the President and the Pentagon that Bush was above the law concerning torture.
www.infowars.com /articles/ps/gonzalez.htm   (5399 words)

  
 Alberto R. Gonzales - SourceWatch
Alberto R. Gonzales (Al Gonzales) is White House Counsel to President George W. Bush; in November 2004, Bush nominated Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as U.S. Attorney General.
On February 3, 2005, the U.S. Senate confirmated Alberto Gonzales as the next attorney general, but did so with the second highest number of "no" votes ever for a successful nominee for the post.
Alberto Gonzales: A Record of Injustice as White House Counsel (http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVFandb=246536), by the Center for American Progress.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Alberto_R._Gonzalez   (1682 words)

  
 Centerfield: A Centrist Case for Alberto Gonzalez
Alberto Gonzalez, regardless of how you feel about the torture memo, was for all intents and purposes a moderate Judge in Texas.
Appointing Gonzalez allows the middle leaning makeup of the Court to continue, where as appointing a conservative to replace O'Conner could mean a shift on high profile cases such as Roe v.
Appointing Gonzalez, which no doubt would anger many conservative activists, would once and for all put them in their place and end this charade about who is exactly running the country.
www.centristcoalition.com /blog/archives/002309.html   (2741 words)

  
 Division for Public Education: National Hispanic Heritage Month 2002: Justice Alberto Gonzales
In addition to handling the usual responsibilities of the Counsel to the President, which in the past included providing ethics advice to the President; researching the backgrounds of federal appointees; and reviewing bills and pardons; Justice Gonzales spends many hours working on issues related to military law and the President's campaign against terrorism.
As a young enlisted soldier in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Alaska, 20 miles north of the Arctic Circle, Alberto Gonzales may not have dreamed he would one day serve as Counsel to the President of the United States.
Upon graduation from law school, Alberto Gonzales joined the firm of Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston, where he had clerked while a law student.
www.abanet.org /publiced/albertogonzales.html   (652 words)

  
 t r u t h o u t - Senator Feingold: 'Alberto Gonzales Lacks Respect for the Rule of Law'
Chairman, the decision on whether to vote to confirm Alberto Gonzales to be the next Attorney General of the United States has been difficult.
Not because he is too conservative, or because I disagree with a specific policy position he has taken, but because I am not convinced that he possesses the abiding respect for the rule of law that our country needs in these difficult times in its Attorney General.
Washington - A Senate Judiciary Committee divided along partisan lines advanced Alberto Gonzales' nomination as attorney general to the full Senate Wednesday despite Democratic complaints that he is too close to President Bush to be effective as the nation's top law enforcement official.
www.truthout.org /docs_05/012705X.shtml   (2002 words)

  
 People For the American Way - Alberto Gonzales’ criticism of Priscilla Owen on the Texas Supreme Court bench covers ...
Alberto Gonzales’ criticism of Priscilla Owen on the Texas Supreme Court bench covers her right-wing judicial activism on a wide range of issues
As White House Counsel and spokesman for the Bush administration’s legal policy, Alberto Gonzales has, not surprisingly, defended the nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the Fifth Circuit, claiming that she is "superbly qualified" and minimizing their differences when both served on the state supreme court.
Measured by their opinions when they were both on the court, however, Gonzales’ view was very different just a few years ago.
www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=1729   (1795 words)

  
 village voice > news > Liberty Beat by Nat Hentoff
The Democrats, still shell-shocked by their second loss to Bush, and by the size of the Hispanic vote for the president, are not likely to filibuster Gonzales.
Alberto Gonzales, moreover, will not in the least disturb John Aschroft's beloved USA Patriot Act, because Gonzales helped write it, and he wholly agrees with his patron, the president, that nothing in it should be changed despite the act's "sunset clause" that allows Congress to review sections of the act by December 2005.
Next week: Alberto Gonzales's role, and record, as legal counsel to the then chief executioner of the United States, Texas Governor W. Bush, in deciding on the petitions for clemency from 57 of the 150 men and two women executed during Bush's six years as governor.
www.villagevoice.com /news/0448,hentoff,58809,6.html   (961 words)

  
 USDOJ: Office of the Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
USDOJ: Office of the Attorney General - Alberto Gonzales
Alberto R. Gonzales was sworn in as the nation's 80th Attorney General on February 3, 2005.
In his initial remarks to Department of Justice employees, Attorney General Gonzales reminded them of their mission and noted they have "a special obligation to protect America against future acts of terrorism.
www.usdoj.gov /ag/aggonzalesbio.html   (659 words)

  
 Alberto Gonzalez Petition
Gonzalez was counsel to Enron for a period of approximately 13 years, and that said company is now bankrupt and accused of fraud and misconduct;
Gonzalez has never tried a civil or criminal case and does not have the prerequisite experience to perform the duties of Attorney General of the United States.
The Alberto Gonzalez Petition to U.S. Senate was created by and written by Donna Cinelli (d.cinelli@verizon.net).
www.petitiononline.com /siag1113/petition.html   (602 words)

  
 MPR: Bush names White House counsel Gonzales to succeed Ashcroft
White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez, left, is President Bush's choice to become the next U.S. attorney general.
Gonzalez, 49, would become the nation's first Hispanic to hold that position.
Washington D.C. (AP) - With a hug and words of high praise, President Bush named Alberto Gonzales as attorney general on Wednesday, elevating the administration's most prominent Hispanic to a highly visible post in the war on terror.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/2004/11/10_ap_newag   (1167 words)

  
 GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Races > 1953 Results > French GP
The rivalry between Ferrari and Maserati in the summer of 1953 culminated in a splendid battle at the French Grand Prix at Reims with the race only being settled in the final slipstreaming dash to the finishing line after 300 miles of racing.
Gonzalez started with a light fuel load and so took the lead in the early laps, while Bonetto lost touch with the leaders when he spun.
Gonzalez pitted but was unable to get out ahead of the battle and so joined in, although Marimon dropped out soon afterwards with a radiator problem which had to be repaired.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/rr028.html   (292 words)

  
 The Alberto Gonzalez Torture Memo Story
They controlled a substantial geographic territory and population, enacted and enforced laws and mandates, carried on relatively complex military operations, appointed persons to governmental posts and received diplomatic recognition from several nations.
Memorandum of 22 January, 2002 from Jay Bybee, Office of legal Counsel for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President and William J. Haynes II, General Counsel of the Department of Defense, Re: Application of Treaties and Laws to al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees at pp 10-11.
One concern expressed is that failing to apply the Geneva Conventions "could undermine U.S. military culture which emphasizes maintaining the highest standards of conduct in combat, and could introduce an element of uncertainty in the status of adversaries," which is what happened at Abu Ghraib.
www.apfn.org /apfn/england3.htm   (3552 words)

  
 Torture's Path Has Alberto Gonzalez's Footprints
So in July of 2002 the president's chief counsel, Alberto Gonzales, convened his colleagues in his cozy, wood-paneled White House office.
Such aggressiveness after 9/11 was typical for Alberto Gonzales, the soft-spoken Harvard Law graduate who has been George W. Bush's lawyer since the latter's days in the Texas governor's mansion.
Gonzales's legal and ethical advice will be the focus of confirmation hearings next month on his nomination as Bush's second-term attorney general.
www.truthout.org /docs_04/printer_122204B.shtml   (1011 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Meet Alberto Gonzales
The man picked by President Bush to be the next attorney general believes the Constitution is a living document and that only the nine fl-robed brethren have sufficient understanding of the document to explain to the people what it means.
I heard Alberto Gonzales make this statement with my own ears in a private dinner meeting two years ago.
Just as alarming is the fact that, before his nomination as attorney general replacing John Ashcroft, Gonzalez was in charge of screening potential nominees for the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41398   (809 words)

  
 Alberto Gonzalez Will Be Bush's Pick For Supreme Court! - Sean Hannity Discussion
Alberto Gonzalez will be Bush's next pick for the Supreme Court, he'll sail through the liberal Senate, and there will be nothing that any of us can do about it.
Alberto Gonzalez will be a very bad choice for the supreme Court, if Bush really wants an Hispanic than Emilio Garza is the right choice, Gonzalez shouldn't even be AG !
Laura Ingraham was saying on her radio show that we can't have Gonzales, and she said why am I talking if no one picks up the phone.
www.hannity.com /forum/showthread.php?t=14059   (1080 words)

  
 Senator Joe Lieberman: News Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Lieberman Statement on the Nomination of Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General
Lieberman voted in favor of Gonzales’s nomination, which passed the Senate today by a vote of 60 to 36.
So for all of those reasons, I shall vote "aye" on the nomination of Judge Gonzales to be our next Attorney General.
lieberman.senate.gov /newsroom/release.cfm?id=231560   (2294 words)

  
 BBC - Film Network - Alberto  Gonzalez
Below is a list of comments Alberto Gonzalez has made.
Below is a list of messages left for Alberto Gonzalez by other members.
Alberto Gonzalez hasn't added any members to their contact list.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/filmnetwork/U1381456   (159 words)

  
 Bush's "loyalty problem"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Where Bill Clinton had a penchant for personal risk-taking, George W. Bush's particular brand of immoderation lies in the premium he places on trust and loyalty — specifically, his expectation of unwavering personal loyalty and his reciprocal trust in the judgment of his closest advisers.
Bush, announcing his selection of Al Gonzalez as White House counsel: "I understand how important it is to have a person I can trust.
I know first-hand I can trust Al's judgment." In 1996, as Gov. Bush's general counsel, Gonzalez helped Bush avoid jury duty in a drunken driving case that could have forced the governor to disclose his own 1976 DUI arrest.
www.csbsju.edu /uspp/Election/bush122900.htm   (873 words)

  
 TIME.com: Antonio Gonzalez -- Page 1
When veteran community organizer Gonzalez, 48, took over the group in 1994, only 5 million Hispanics were registered nationwide.
The Los Angeles based Gonzalez, whose Mexican immigrant father loaded trucks at a Coca-Cola plant in Orange, Calif., raises his $4 million annual budget from foundations and corporations, including State Farm and nbc's Telemundo Communications.
If Republicans complain that his registrants vote mostly Democratic, Gonzalez points to Florida, where an ambitious SVREP effort fueled a high G.O.P. turnout among Latinos in the 2004 presidential race.
www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,1093623,00.html   (332 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush appoints Texas ally to key post
US President George W Bush has chosen White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales as his new attorney general.
Mr Gonzalez has stuck to his views, though he has also made it clear that he does not approve of torture.
His appointment suggests that, as expected, senior posts in the Bush cabinet in his second term will be held by loyalists close to the President and to his way of thinking, our correspondent adds.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/4000679.stm   (359 words)

  
 Times Argus: Vermont News & Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
We have a grave concern over the nomination of Alberto Gonzales as attorney general of the United States.
The public record shows that, as White House counsel, Alberto Gonzales has rationalized and facilitated the torture of prisoners by U.S. personnel, in violation of law and human decency, in Afghanistan, Guantanamo and Iraq.
We urge our Senators to oppose the confirmation of Alberto Gonzalez as attorney general.
timesargus.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050115/NEWS/501150367/1022   (135 words)

  
 Alberto Gonzalez's Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Gonzalez Prieto, R.Stadler "Design and Implementation of Performance Policies for SMS Systems", 16th IFIP/IEEE Distributed Systems: Operations and Management (DSOM 2005), Barcelona, Spain, October 24-26, 2005
Gonzalez Prieto, R.Stadler, "Scalable Policy Distribution for Ambient Networks", 14th IST Mobile and Wireless Communication Summit, Dresden, Germany, June 19-23, 2005
Gonzalez Prieto, R. Cosenza and R.Stadler "Policy-based Congestion Management for an SMS Gateway ", IEEE 5th International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY 2004), Yorktown Heights, New York, June 7-9, 2004.
web.it.kth.se /~gonzalez/publications.html   (294 words)

  
 Gay Orbit » Alberto Gonzalez™
Someone wrote me and asked how I feel about the nomination of Alberto Gonzalez to the post of Attorney General.
Specifically, they wanted to know what I thought about him somehow being part of the cabal that supported anti-gay initiatives in the Bush Administration.
If Gonzalez was involved in any of these things, then he’s scummy to me. But I would say that about anyone on either side of the political aisle.
gayorbit.net /?p=353   (154 words)

  
 alberto gonzalez
"Already Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales is making some liberals pine for John Ashcroft.
Gonzales has stonewalled Congress on the extent of electronic surveillance, raided a congressional office and, for good measure, raised the possibility of prosecuting journalists, including some at...
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 Captain Alberto González-Abreu
My maternal grandfather, Captain Alberto González-Abreu y Sánchez (1879-1959).
My maternal grandfather, Capt. Alberto González-Abreu y Sánchez (14).
Alberto González-Abreu y Sánchez, stands in the center behind Carrillo.
www.latinamericanstudies.org /abreu.htm   (169 words)

  
 ABC News: Gonzales Urges: Give Miers a Chance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Miers' qualifications to be a Supreme Court justice and her views on privacy rights will be a focus of her confirmation hearings, Specter said Sunday, Oct. 9, 2005, on ABC's "This Week." (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
WASHINGTON Oct 12, 2005 (AP)— Attorney General Alberto Gonzales asserted Wednesday that Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers would bring "a unique brand of experience" to the high court and that critics will feel comfortable when they get to know her.
Gonzales, himself once considered a leading candidate for a vacancy there, said there is "nothing unique or earth-shattering" about Miers' nomination and said people should give her time to say who she is and what she believes.
abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=1205519   (401 words)

  
 GOP.com | Republican National Committee :: Alberto Gonzalez -- What They're Saying
“The small handful of liberal Democrats playing politics with the nomination of Judge Alberto Gonzales know that from Texas to Washington, he has consistently upheld the highest standards of his profession, and that he will continue to do so as attorney general.
That is why there is broad support for Judge Gonzales among Democrats, and that is why he will be overwhelmingly confirmed when the Senate votes on his nomination.”
That Was When Alberto Gonzales Ran For Election To The Texas Supreme Court.”
www.gop.com /news/read.aspx?ID=5061   (1115 words)

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