Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) said it best today as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to approve the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general.
“He will, in fact, enforce the laws that we pass in the future?
Common Cause is urging the full Senate to vote AGAINST Murkasey’s confirmation, and the organization is far from alone.
Four retired Judge Advocates General (JAGs), the legal arm of the U.S. military, declared unequivocally in a letter to Sen Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that “waterboarding is inhumane, it is torture, and it is illegal.