Meet the New Boss?

Well my friends, it seems like we might have a new Attorney General. The new top-pick, expected to be announced sometime by the end of the day, is a New York judge by the name of Michael Mukasey, and, though nominated by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), I have no problems with this guy so far.

The Honorable Judge Mukasey was the judge who oversaw the case of Abdullah al-Muhajir, better known to the public as Jose Padilla, and was responsible for upholding the ruling that Jose Padilla was an Unlawful Enemy Combatant, and is well known in New York for his role as the presider during the case of the "Blind Sheik" Omar Abdel-Rahman and the 11 men who attempted to bring down the World Trade Center back in 1993.

In 2003, he was also the judge responsible for a preliminary injunction against the Motion Picture Association of America, due to its enforcement of a ban on the distribution of earlier screening versions of films during the awards season, which he rightly declared was a violation of the freedom to conduct interstate commerce, and a hit on Independent Film Maker's rights of Free speech. So far, I have no problems with the guy, and see him as the traditional small government law-and-order conservative.

Now, it is time to see what time will bring up from the fog of history.