alberto gonzales 2004

Membre d’une association d’extrême droite, la Federalist Society, M. Gonzales a déjà mis en place des juridictions d’exception et généralisé l’usage de la torture. Il se propose maintenant d’épurer le département de la Justice.Alberto Gonzales est le premier Hispanique à accéder à la fonction d’attorney general des États-Unis. His resignation letter ended with a hope that God will continue to bless, guide and direct President Bush.Unsurprisingly, then, under Ashcroft's leadership, the justice department -- which ought to be preserving constitutional walls between church and state -- did its best to break down those very walls.The Ashcroft justice department worked for land-use laws that provided special privileges for religious groups. He has also sought to force detainees at Guantanamo to stand before military commissions -- a practice U.S. District Judge James Robertson And last Friday, November 12, in a speech to the Federalist Society, Ashcroft -- still the acting Attorney General -- warned of a "profoundly disturbing trend" of federal judges tending to "second guess" presidential determinations on legal questions. Dates that attorneys were sworn in under a presidential nomination and senate confirmation (some may have already been serving under interim appointment, in anticipation of senate confirmation). He spent thousands of dollars purchasing drapery to cover nude sculptures in Department of Justice headquarters. Gonzales, like Ashcroft, believes that the president's -- and attorney general's -- kingly power trumps even some of the most prized of American's basic rights, the rights to physical liberty, and to due process of law.In sum, the most likely scenario is that Gonzales will simply be a more affable, personable version of Ashcroft, and Ashcroft's broader political and legal agenda will continue far into the future.Indeed, Gonzales may be even more effective than Ashcroft in pressing this agenda -- for Ashcroft seemed to have a special talent for alienating the press and spurring dissenters to dissent even more strongly. (For more details, please see Throughout his tenure as attorney general, Ashcroft expressed strong support for the Patriot Act, before and after it was signed by the President on October 26, 2001. "The point, of course, was that the enormous power Louis XIV had amassed would exist long after his death. Ces commissions ne doivent pas être confondues avec les tribunaux militaires, et encore moins avec les juridictions civiles.

Was the federal law a constitutional exercise of Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause? He persecuted many non-Catholic groups, like the Huguenots, who were members of the French protestant church and expelled all Jews from French colonies, strictly prohibiting the practice of these "dissenting" religions.The result of Louis's religious crusade was to increase tensions throughout Europe, which led other countries to band together to challenge France. Pendant les six années de gouvernorat de George W. Bush, 152 personnes furent exécutées au Texas. Indeed, Gonzales provided the legal arguments used to claim that the president has the power, under the Constitution, to order torture, despite the fact that torture violates the Geneva Conventions and other international agreements the United States has ratified and implemented.Indeed, Gonzales deemed international law -- which becomes the law of the United States, under our Constitution, when properly ratified by the Senate -- to be "quaint" and outdated when applied to the war on terrorism. 1. In 2002, it successfully argued before the Supreme Court for the constitutionality of school vouchers that could be used for private religious schools.Indeed, the Department of Justice even created a faith-based office to provide legal support for the administration's many faith-based programs. Le président George W. Bush a nommé son fidèle conseiller, Alberto Gonzales, secrétaire à la Justice de la nouvelle administration. In summer 2003, in Rather than continue to litigate the case, the Ashcroft Justice Department executed a settlement in which the purportedly highly dangerous Hamdi would be allowed to depart the U.S. to reside in Saudi Arabia.During his tenure, he repeatedly urged judges to trust the government's word for whether a particular person was an "enemy combatant" -- rather than conducting their own inquiry, and applying law to facts. Birthplace: San Antonio, TX. Gonzalez v. Raich (2004) Summary This month we spotlight the landmark federalism case Gonzalez v. Raich (2004). Although Gonzales is being billed as a moderate, he is best-known as the author of the controversial memo advising the Administration that they need not abide by the Geneva Conventions … Continue reading "Author of Anti … To students of history, the news of Ashcroft's departure, followed by the instant appointment of Gonzales as his replacement, may have recalled the final hours of the French monarch Louis XIV -- the "Sun King. Join now.