Michael Mukasey

Michael Mukasey

Michael B. Mukasey (born July 28, 1941 in New York City ) is an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ) who served as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York for 18 years , including six Years as Chief Justice. He was nominated on September 17, 2007 by President George W. Bush to succeed Alberto R. Gonzales as the 81st United States Attorney General . After the approval of the Senate , he took office on November 9, 2007.

Born in the Bronx , Michael Mukasey went to Columbia College, Columbia University , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1963 . He received a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1967 . He then worked, among other things, from 1972 as deputy federal attorney for the southern district of New York. In 1976, he joined the New York law firm Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler .

He was considered a strict “ law-and-order ” man, but he also found support in circles of the Democratic Party . He was tolerant of torture during interrogation; he took the position that waterboarding was not torture .

With the end of George W. Bush's tenure in January 2009, Michael Mukasey also left the government. Since then he has worked as a partner in the international law firm Debevoise & Plimpton .

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1. ↑ Ex-federal judge to become US Justice Minister , tagesschau.de, September 17, 2007 (tagesschau.de archive)
2. ↑ Designated Minister of Justice with a controversial definition of torture, derstandard.at  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ The Nation - Mukasey's reply draws more fire - The attorney general nominee declines to call water-boarding torture, as Democrats on Senate panel had sought. Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2007 (English)

Web links

Commons : Michael Mukasey  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biographical Directory of Federal Judges
• Michael Mukasey at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia (English)
• Michael B. Mukasey at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP