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We can not have a single defection within the Democratic membership of the Senate Judiciary Committee if we want to stop Judge Mukasey’s nomination for Attorney General.

Please call your two Senators especially if they are members of the Judiciary Committee. The Committee will be voting on Tuesday November 6 to recommend the nomination go to the full floor for a vote.

Full background below but the simple message is you want your Senator to vote No on the confirmation of Judge Mukasey as Attorney General. He would not say that waterboarding is torture. An Attorney General unable to call waterboarding torture would free the hand of an administration fixated on an unconstitutional theory of Executive Privilege.

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Confirmed No:
Biden, Durbin, Whitehouse, Kennedy, Leahy, Feingold

Undecided:
Kohl, Cardin

Confirmed Yes:
Feinstein, Schumer

Democrats.com has specific information about Judiciary Committee Members and talking points.

News Hour: Senator Graham and Senator Whitehouse debate Mukasey nomination.

Crooks and Liars has Nov 2: Olbermann Coverage on Mukasey Nomination.

Background and detailed explanation by Marty Lederman of Balkinization

Judge Mukasey won’t opine on any technique that the CIA is not currently using (e.g., waterboarding). He assumes the December 2004 Office of Legal Council opinion is (and will continue to be?) the governing DOJ view on what constitutes torture. (As I’ve explained, that opinion intentionally misinterprets the term “severe physical suffering” so as to significantly and mistakenly limit the scope of prohibited torture.)

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