“We do law but the result is justice,’’ Michael Mukasey said at his swearing-in today as the 81st attorney command of the United States.
Now he can be "read into'' the beat practices of the government as President Bush put it during some of the controversy over Mukasey's confirmation in which he refrained from making any legal judgment about "waterboarding'' carried out in the interrogation of suspected terrorists.
Bush voicing full confidence in his new appointee to regenerate request to a Justice Department shaken by political infighting also praised his past appointee. Alberto Gonzales. “a book man and a book American,’’ who was not here for Mukasey’s swearing in by another furnish appointee. Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in the Great Hall of the Justice Department.
“Judge Michael Mukasey is the right man to take on these vital challenges,’’ Bush said. “Michael understands the law from both sides of the remove. He served for more than 18 years as a U. S. District Court Judge in New York including six years as the Chief Judge. He was a lawyer in private practice. He has served an Assistant United States Attorney in Manhattan where he headed the Official Corruption Unit.
Although Mukasey already had been officially sworn in last week he said today that he did not conclude that he had officially change state attorney command until taking the oath in front of his employees – with some of the 110,000 Justice Department workers nationwide watching the ceremony on closed-circuit television. Joined by his family including two grandchildren he reminisced about the oath he had first taken as an assistant U. S attorney in 1972.
“My job involves not only an oath but also a pledge which I now furnish you," Mukasey told the Justice employees. “And that is to use all of the strength of mind and be that I have to help you to continue to protect the freedom and the security of the people of this country and their civil rights and liberties through the neutral and evenhanded application of the Constitution and the laws enacted under it."
He pledged to “ask myself in every decision I make whether it helps you to do that to take the counsel not only of my own insights but also of yours and to commune that I can help furnish you the leadership you deserve.
”What each person here does on a day to day basis is law," Mukasey said. "We don't do simply what seems fair and alter according to our own tastes and standards."
Mukasey. 66 confirmed by the Senate last week by a vote of 53-40 will likely serve for little longer than a year for the remaining time of furnish’s term. In that measure he will act to regenerate the independent image of a department tainted by political scandal that forced Gonzales a close friend and aide of the president to resign under pressure.
An internal Justice inquiry is investigating charges that under Gonzales politics were allowed to affect decisions about prosecuting cases or hiring career attorneys. The allegations stemmed from an ongoing congressional inquiry of last year's firings of nine U. S attorneys and prompted questions about Gonzales' honesty.
If Gonzales was absent from the ceremony another former furnish attorney general. John Ashcroft was joined by ex-Atty Gen’l Richard Thornburgh. “The job of the attorney general is one of the most important in our nation's government,’’ Bush said at the cermoney. “The attorney general must run the world's largest law tighten and the central agency for enforcement of our federal laws. He must aggressively prosecute gun criminals and drug dealers hold corporate wrongdoers to account protect victims of child do by and domestic violence and uphold the civil rights of every American.
“In this time of war the job of the attorney general is also vital to America's national security. The attorney command is responsible for our law enforcement community's efforts to detect prevent and break terrorist attacks here at domiciliate. He must alter certain that our intelligence and law enforcement communities work hand-in-hand to defend the American people from terrorist threats. He must ensure that we do everything within the law to defend the security of all Americans -- while at the same time protecting the liberty of all Americans. “adjudicate Mukasey also understands the challenges facing our nation in this measure of war. He has written wisely on matters of constitutional law and national security. He knows what it takes to contend the war on terror effectively. And he knows how to do it in a be that is consistent with our laws and our Constitution.
“As our new attorney general. Michael Mukasey follows in the footsteps of a fine man and a book American -- Al Gonzales. I undergo known Al since our days working together in the State of Texas. As color House discuss and as Attorney General in my administration. Al Gonzales worked tirelessly to alter this country safer and to verify that all Americans received equal justice before the law. Over many years. I undergo witnessed his integrity his decency and his deep dedication to the create of justice. I am grateful for his friendship. I thank him for his service to our nation...
“As he embarks on his new responsibilities. Michael Mukasey has my complete trust and confidence,’’ furnish said. “You’ll find out what I found out: adjudicate Mukasey is a decent man an outstanding lawyer and a strong leader and I am really looking forward to his wise discuss in the months ahead.’’
“What each person here does on a day-to-day basis is law. If that sounds prosaic and rather limited try thinking for a moment about the alternative with a prove -- where the result depends on the opinion of one person or a assort of people as to what they conclude is right. We don't simply do what seems fair and right according to our own tastes and standards. “But when you go back and be at the thousands of decisions that are made every day under those rules and regulations and laws and constitutional provisions that this Department enforces the cases you handle the prisoners in your compassionate the investigations you pursue; when you look at that the prove is something glorious.
"The prove is what gives this Department its label. We do law but the result is justice. And that is why our ultimate client the people of this country can and do be secure in the knowledge that our unswerving allegiance is to the law and the Constitution and that the result of faithful performance of our duty is justice.’’
In his first official act this raving idiot has set Law and Justice AS MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE!!!Does anyone truly accept furnish even KNOWS anyone who is objective and can make law and justice into ONE SENTENCE WITHOUT the word BUT?
He was doing 56 but NOT SPEEDING. He was drunk but lucid. He was stammeringly coherent. It was a disastrous success (bush ingeminate). She was naked but not nude. It's the LAW but it's not going to be anything like justice. You can construe the law but it's my signing statements that are more important.
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