CREW Files Bar Complaint Against AG Nominee Gonzales

[Ramsey]

Today, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) filed a complaint with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel of the State Bar of Texas requesting an investigation into misrepresentations White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales made in a written response to a question posed to him by the Senate Judiciary Committee which is considering Gonzales’s nomination for Attorney General.

The complaint alleges that Gonzales inaccurately portrayed his role in appearing before a Texas court when President Bush, then Governor of Texas, was summoned for jury duty. Gonzales has claimed that although he appeared in court with the Governor, he merely observed the defense counsel make a motion to strike the Governor from the jury panel and then when asked by the Judge whether the Governor had any views on this, replied that he did not.

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[Just Me]

1. Would suspension of law licesnse preclude appointment as AG?

:bounce:

[Ian David]

2. So, we think getting someone out of jury duty might be worse than torture?

What a sad country this is becoming.

We're all wearing the blue dress now.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. I think the point may be that he lied about what his role was in

getting * out of jury duty. That may be perjury, and that is prosecutable.
Kind of like gettng a Mafia guy for tax evasion even though you know he is responsible for the murder of hundreds of people. You get him for what you can get him for...

[K-W]

5. Nobody said anything remotely like that. EOM

[rachelbirds]

3. It's not the first one

and I bet it won't be the last one.