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November 6, 2007

Whitehouse to vote against Mukasey

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse believes Judge Michael Mukasey is great lawyer and judge, and an all around good person and a good appointment to the position of Attorney General.

“He is not a political hack,” Whitehouse said in a floor speech last week. “He is not a partisan ideologue. He is not an incompetent crony. We’ve had our share of those.

“No, he is a brilliant lawyer, a distinguished jurist, and by all accounts a good man.”

But Whitehouse voted against Mukasey in committee because of his refusal to call so-called water boarding "torture."

The Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nomination of Attorney General-designate Michael Mukasey to the Senate floor today.

Mukasey’s refusal to label water boarding as torture was cited by several Senate members as a reason they will not support the nomination.

Watch the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings live on C-Span.

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