Mukasey to Make High Court Appearance

For the first time in more than a decade, the U.S. attorney general will argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey will ask the justices to reinstate the sentence of al-Qaida plotter Ahmed Ressam in an argument on March 25, the Washington Post reports. A federal appeals court had overturned Ressam’s 22-year sentence for planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport.

Ressam was charged after customs officials found 124 pounds of explosives in the trunk of his car.

Mukasey, a former federal judge, has presided over several terrorism cases. A spokesman declined to say why he chose Ressam’s case for argument. The last attorney general who argued before the high court was Janet Reno in 1996.