The grand plan, we all know, is for Gonzales to go to the Supreme Court!

[rumpel]

Let's keep it up, we can not let this man go to the Supreme Court! Aside from the torture memos, these older opinions speak volumes about Gonzales and bush.

The Texas Clemency Memos
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200307/berlow
On the morning of May 6, 1997, Governor George W. Bush signed his name to a confidential three-page memorandum from his legal counsel, Alberto R. Gonzales, and placed a bold black check mark next to a single word: DENY. It was the twenty-ninth time a death-row inmate's plea for clemency had been denied in the twenty-eight months since Bush had been sworn in. In this case Bush's signature led, shortly after 6:00 P.M. on the very same day, to the execution of Terry Washington, a mentally retarded thirty-three-year-old man with the communication skills of a seven-year-old.


Washington's death was barely noted by the media, and the governor's office issued no statement about it. But the execution and the three-page memo that sealed Washington's fate—along with dozens of similar memoranda prepared for Bush—speak volumes about the way the clemency process was approached both by Bush and by Gonzales, the man most often mentioned as the President's choice for the next available seat on the Supreme Court.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200307/berlow

and

White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales's Texas Execution Memos:
How They Reflect on the President, And May Affect Gonzales's Supreme Court Chances
By JOHN W. DEAN

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he memos were initially confidential, meant for the Governor alone. They have not themselves been published. But they have been reviewed by writer Alan Berlow of The Atlantic Monthly, and his report on their contents is disturbing indeed.


The Gonzales execution memos raise serious - and, unfortunately ugly - questions, not because of what they say, rather because of what they fail to say. They also suggest that President Bush's earlier claims about how he, in fact, handled clemency requests as Governor of Texas are less than accurate.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030620.html

[Pam-Moby]

1. The Dem's welcome Gonzo

to the senate GONG show when the hit him and Chimp with there GONG out of there!!! Maybe they can even get Gene Gene the dancing machine there to add insult to injury!!!