New York Times praises Bush nominee for attorney general, Michael Mukasey

Liptak then gives the moral of the trial: “Long before most Americans had given deep consideration to the terrorist threat from radical Islam or to whether the criminal justice system is the right forum for trying people accused of terrorism, Judge Mukasey received an intensive education on those topics.” In other words, Mukasey saw farther than the rest of the country, anticipating the danger posed by terrorists and grasping the need to fundamentally curtail democratic rights.

Who is the individual who receives such fulsome praise from the New York Times? Mukasey is a deeply reactionary “law and order” judge, who in his tenure on the US District Court for the Southern District of New York demonstrated scant regard for democratic procedures and the rights of the accused.