Attorney General
Mukasey to Make High Court Appearance
Posted Mar 12, 2008, 07:31 am CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss
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.
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Posted by Glen G. Mayberry - 6 months, 3 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours, 41 minutes ago
I think the man’s senttence shold be carried forth rather than be suspended. If let out he might do just what he planned on doing in the first place. That is bombing LAX. Do these men get some type of drug to settle their minds and help them forget about their past activities.? They should.!!!!!