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King Coal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:38 AM
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Question: Has Alberto Gonzales ever actually prosecuted a case?
I thought I saw somewhere that he has not.
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:40 AM
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1. His nose has been far up bushes ass for far too long
To actually accomplish anything..
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rox63 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:41 AM
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2. I thought he was a corporate lawyer before hooking up with *
If he was, he wouldn't have been in a position to prosecute anything. He probably would have have only seen a courtroom while representing corporate interests in lawsuits.
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:43 AM
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3. Before being AG, he was the Bush lawyer
so his career was to take care of Bush family problems.

He was never a USA.
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:43 AM
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4. No
Edited on Wed Mar-28-07 08:48 AM by DCKit
But he's persecuted plenty of American citizens.

Oh, you said "prosecute."
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:44 AM
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5. unlikely
he certainly has never been a prosecutor (he was in private practice, then General Counsel to Governor Bush, then Secretary of State (Texas) then on the Texas Supreme Court, then White House Counsel then AG)

but then, most lawyers never actually spend time in court.
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 09:00 AM
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11. For me...
...the courtroom was the ONLY place there ever was!

Gonzo obviously feels the opposite way. He is NO trial man ~~ just watching him handle questions before the Judicary committee? This guy in NO way has the moves of a coutroom lawyer. Compare him to those like Leahy who have been trial lawyers and to the fired USAttys who did appear. World of difference.

Some lawyers are afraid of the courtroom and I am betting Alberto is one of those. LOL, I would LOVE to get that little SOB on the other side of a case and spend a few days waltzing him around a courtroom. One of the things I see in him that makes him a target? (Besides being dishonest.) He has -0- ability to read people. He cannot sit back and see where it is gonna go. Like that BS answer he gave Specter on habeas corpus not being in the Const? GMAFB. That answer was so much BS even a first year law student would steer away from it. And he expected Specter and the Judic com to buy it? LMBO!

JMHO
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 09:12 AM
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12. indeed, but you no doubt know
many fellow attorneys who never saw the inside of a courthouse. at the corporate level like this, going to trial means you have serious problems. I count among my good friends about 6 lawyers, of whom two spend any time in courtrooms now (one additional used to be an ADA, but is now white-shoe)
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Hepburn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 12:50 PM
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15. Trial men....
...are rare. There are are lawyers and of those, there are paper pushers and those who go to court. The latter group is much smaller than the former. Of courtroom attys, only a few are really trial men.

BTW: That term applies to both male and female lawyers. One of the highest compliments I was ever paid was by an old time, much respected and much senior male atty who had a ton of published opinions: He called me a "trial man." I don't know if he was correct or not, but over the years, I have cherished that compliment. I always tried to live up to his opinion of me.

Gonzo, IMO, is not even a good paper pusher.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:44 AM
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6. Well, no, but he wrote a really great memo justifying torture
Does that count?

:eyes:
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:47 AM
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7. no - but he helped Bush survive jury duty.
Edited on Wed Mar-28-07 08:47 AM by BlueManDude
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IWantAChange Donating Member (974 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:51 AM
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8. Why would the US ATTORNEY GENERAL need to be a real lawyer in Chimpy's admin??
If nobody else is qualified for their position why should he be???
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stellanoir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:53 AM
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9. From what I heard, he expedited a landmark number of executions of a lot of Texans
without any review whatsoever.

Wot a guy.

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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 08:56 AM
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10. KO called him Bush's "gopher."
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Gothmog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:32 AM
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13. He was a real estate attorney at Vinson & Elkins
Gonzales never got close to a court room unitl he was appointed to the Texas Supreme Court.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-28-07 11:33 AM
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14. With that whiny voice? Not a litigator's voice.
He is a snake oil salesman in a good suit.
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