Attorney General Palmer made a series of raids that sent more than 4,000 so-called radicals to the jails, in direct violation of their constitutional rights.

Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

`` The Attorney General has been brooding over that evidence like an old hen on a doorknob for eighteen months '', Hearst said.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.

The Attorney General responded by letter dated July 19.

Yet your editorial said: `` Now the Attorney General writes that no considerations ' justify any loss of revenue of this proportion ' ''.

The Attorney General shall assign such officers and employees of the Department of Justice as may be necessary to represent the United States as to any claims of the Government of the United States with respect to which the Commission has jurisdiction under this title.

On the brief were Solicitor General Rankin, Assistant Attorney General Wilkey, Beatrice Rosenberg and J. F. Bishop.

In his report to the Attorney General, the hearing officer suggested that the petitioner be exempt only from combatant training and service.

Moreover, the hearing officer's report is but intradepartmental, is directed to the Attorney General and, of course, is not the recommendation of the Department.

It is not essentially different from a memorandum of an attorney in the Department of Justice, of which the Attorney General receives many, and to which he may give his approval or rejection.

As I have stated previously, the Attorney General has advised me that this section violates fundamental constitutional principles.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

The Attorney General of California concurs in this interpretation and has filed an appeal from these decisions to the District Court of Appeal.

The Attorney General of the United States, in considering the power of the Secretary to issue similar regulations under the Wagner-Peyser Act relating to the interstate recruitment of farm workers, has rendered an opinion sustaining his authority.

Should Congress authorize the Attorney General to file suit to accomplish admission of a child to a school to which he is denied entrance??

Even though in civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 the provision for the Attorney General to act was eliminated, should we nevertheless support such a clause??

Interruptions came largely from the bench, which numerous times rebuked the Attorney General for letting his witnesses run on, though it, too, made no serious effort to choke off the flow.

The achievement of the desegregation of certain lunch counters not only by wise action by local community leaders but by voluntary action following consultation between Attorney General Rogers and the heads of certain national chain stores should, of course, be applauded.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Simultaneously the President announced Thursday the appointment of David L. Hackett, a special assistant to the Attorney General, as executive director of the new Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime.

Mr. Simpkins will move into the post being vacated by Thomas B. Finan, earlier named Attorney General to succeed C. Ferdinand Sybert, who will be elevated to an associate judgeship on the Maryland Court of Appeals.

* 1955 – Alberto Gonzales, American politician, 80th United States Attorney General

On 22 March 2006 the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced the indictment of fifty leaders of FARC for importing more than $ 25 billion worth of cocaine into the United States and other countries.

In May 2012 the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

In September 2007 Olson was considered by the Bush administration for the post of Attorney General to succeed Alberto Gonzales.

In response, National Association of Muslim Lawyers and National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, saying that the move to list the largest Muslim organizations in America as unindicted co-conspirators was an effort to smear the entire Muslim community.

* Pacifica has expanded its schedule of national special broadcasts, distributing more audio documentaries, covering the Attorney General Alberto Gonzales hearings live, and sending production teams to the United States Social Forum and the National Conference for Media Reform.

On March 14, 2007, Sununu became the first Republican senator to call for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales after a controversy over U. S. Attorney firings.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

In presidential systems, the legislature may occasionally pass motions of no confidence, as was done by the United States Congress to Secretary of State Dean Acheson in the 1950s and was contemplated against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but these motions are of symbolic effect only.

Alberto Gonzalez and his wife with the Bushes at the ranch the day before Gonzalez resigned as United States Attorney General

On March 26, 2007, U. S. District Judge Clarence Cooper dismissed with prejudice a suit for injunctive relief filed by European Connections, agreeing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and TJC that IMBRA is a constitutional exercise of Congressional authority to regulate for-profit dating websites and agencies where the primary focus is on introducing Americans to foreigners.

Pryor was one of six Democrats to vote for the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General.

" None of the original allegations put forward by the U. S. government three years prior, the claims that held Padilla in the majority in solitary confinement throughout that period, were part of the indictment: " Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced Padilla is being removed from military custody and charged with a series of crimes " and " There is no mention in the indictment of Padilla's alleged plot to use a dirty bomb in the United States.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales vetted Kerik during that nomination period.

On November 1, 2007, President George W. Bush visited Heritage to defend his appointment of Michael Mukasey to succeed Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States ; Mukasey's nomination faced opposition in the U. S. Senate over the nominee's refusal to label the interrogation tactic of waterboarding as illegal.

* Alberto Gonzales, chair of the Commission for District Decentralization, later became United States Attorney General

Lincoln called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, claiming that the firing of eight federal prosecutors has created a " serious breach between the Justice Department and Congress, a breach that I'm not sure can be repaired with Mr. Gonzales at the helm.

589, a bill proposing the impeachment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

After the numerous calls by Democrats, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi ( D-CA ), Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid ( D-NV ), Putnam became the top Republican in either House to call for the ouster of former U. S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

On July 31, 2007, Inslee introduced legislation that called for an inquiry to determine whether then United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be impeached.

In late March 2006, the Puerto Rico Department of Justice sued federal authorities, including FBI Director Robert Mueller and US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, seeking an injunction to force the federal government authorities to provide the Commonwealth government with information related to the operation in which Ojeda Ríos died, as well as another one in which the FBI searched the homes of independence supporters affiliated with Los Macheteros.

* Kyle Sampson, former Chief of Staff and Counselor of United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

Hoekstra and a fellow Republican sent an open letter to then Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales regarding the Islamic Society of North America as blogged about via the Washington Times: In a letter to then-Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, Reps. Peter Hoekstra, Michigan Republican and ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Sue Myrick, North Carolina Republican, called the Justice Department's involvement a " grave mistake.