Email to Durbin re Mukasey

Dear Senator Durbin :

Thank you for your continued replies to my emails. In particular your reply on 12/10/07 in which you wrote:

" There is no doubt that Attorney General Mukasey will face difficult choices in the coming months as we continue to fight the war on terrorism. At his confirmation hearing, Attorney General Mukasey promised to resign if prevented by Bush Administration officials from enforcing the law and upholding the United States Constitution. I hope he fulfills his promise should such a situation arise."

I know that you did not vote for him, but perhaps now would be a good time to ask him to resign? Why wait another year? He doesn't know the law, or he does and doesn't care to follow it.

The Senate had their chance to block this and now we officially have a new LEGAL enabler to Bush's torture policies.

This blog post from Scott Horton at Harpers summarizes my feelings completely:
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/01/hbc-90002285

I do not feel that we are any longer living under the rule of Law, and even worse, I no longer have a hope that Congress will take any recourse to recover and protect its constitutional duties from the President. If you pass a new law he will just do what he wants...How can you and your colleagues stop this?

L.