According to the Washington Post, “President Bush has settled on retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey to replace Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General.”

Mukasey presided over the first case involving Jose Padilla after 9/11, in which he ruled that “President Bush did have the authority to hold Mr. Padilla as an enemy combatant without charging him for a crime,” but also “ruled that the government must allow Mr. Padilla to see his attorneys.”

Moreover, “both Mukasey and his son, Marc, are connected with Rudolph W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign, as members of the Republican candidate’s justice advisory committee.” A Republican source tells the Post, “conservatives might have some serious concerns with Mukasey.”

UPDATE I: In 2005 the Alliance for Justice named Mukasey one of four Judges who, “if chosen for the Supreme Court, would show the president’s commitment to nominating people who could be supported by both Democrats and Republicans.”

UPDATE II: Mukasey recently penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal where he argued that “terror trials hurt the nation even when they lead to convictions.”

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