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...first of the two Harvard alums being considered to replace O’Connor is Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, who received a degree from HLS in 1982. Gonzales, who previously served as White House Counsel, has long been a close friend and confidant of the president. The son of Mexican immigrants, Gonzales grew up in a poor household that did not even have a telephone until he was in high school...
However, groups on both sides of the political spectrum oppose Gonzales. Right-wing groups want a stronger conservative to replace O’Connor, and many liberals object to some of his work as Attorney General and White House Counsel, which included taking part in discussions justifying the torture of prisoners...
...known for its $15 rum cocktails and red crocodile bar top. The host of the upcoming event, according to an e-mail obtained by TIME, is a lobbying firm co-founded by Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman's brother and Senate majority leader Bill Frist's former chief counsel. FedEx has thrown a similar shindig, as has the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Attendees get to mingle below the radar at the publicity- free events, which are billed at less than $50 a head to comply with Senate ethics rules. "Why have a lobbyist pay for it?" asks a senior...
...Alberto Gonzales and George W. Bush have joined in a largely successful effort to build a more muscular executive branch. Drawn to the quiet lawyer's up-by-his-bootstraps story, then-Governor Bush persuaded Gonzales to leave his lucrative law practice in Houston and become his general counsel in 1994. Bush later put Gonzales on the Texas Supreme Court, and when Bush moved north, he made Gonzales White House counsel and, earlier this year, the nation's first Hispanic Attorney General...
However, groups on both sides of the political spectrum oppose Gonzales. Right-wing groups want a stronger conservative to replace O’Connor, and many liberals object to some of his work as Attorney General and White House Counsel, which included taking part in discussions justifying the torture of prisoners...