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What if Jim Comey had succeeded John Ashcroft as AG?

By Douglas A. Berman

Especially with AG Mukasey continuing to lament crack retroactivity, it is interesting to ponder what might have happened if President Bush had picked someone other than Alberto Gonzales to be his Attorney General at the start of his second term in office.  Had Bush not tapped Gonzales, the inside money for taking over after AG Ashcroft would have been on James Comey, and it is fascinating to speculate about how Comey might have avoided all the troubled that AG Gonzales eventually got into. Anyone eager to play this "what if" game seriously should be sure to attend this event next week sponsored by the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City.  The evening event will have Comey, who is now senior vice president and general counsel of Lockheed Martin Corporation," speaking on "Integrity, Public Trust, and Prosecution...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 26, 2008 (boomark / email).