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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is the recipient of a confidence vote in the Senate this afternoon.

Arlen Spector (R-PA, One of my favorite Senators as well) had this to say about our AG;

“If you ask Arlen Specter, do I have confidence in Attorney General Gonzales, the answer is a resounding no,” Specter said during a news conference in Philadelphia. “I’m going to vote that I have no confidence in Attorney General Gonzales.”

What’s worth noting, and worth a post, is that after letting several other Republican Senators come out and call for Gonzales’ resignation Senator Nahm Coleman called for his resignation as well.

Clearly “Leader of the Pack” isn’t going to be Normy’s theme song anytime soon.

But, back to the topic at hand.

After calling for Gonzales’ resignation, is Norm going to continue to stand up for fair government and transparency, or in the face of this administration’s unmatched boobery is Norm going to slink back to being Republican lapdog the he was for the first four years of his term?

Update: This is what I get for not checking my email before scrounging up a post. Flip the fold for more DoJ shenanigans from this morning’s WaPo:

Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties
Law Forbids Practice; Courts Being Reshaped

The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.

At least one-third of the immigration judges appointed by the Justice Department since 2004 have had Republican connections or have been administration insiders, and half lacked experience in immigration law…

Two newly appointed immigration judges were failed candidates for the U.S. Tax Court nominated by President Bush; one fudged his taxes and the other was deemed unqualified to be a tax judge by the nation’s largest association of lawyers. Both were Republican loyalists…

These appointments, all made by the attorney general, have begun to reshape a system of courts in which judges, ruling alone, exercise broad powers — deporting each year nearly a quarter-million immigrants, who have limited rights to appeal and no right to an attorney. The judges do not serve fixed terms…

Get your contact info for the Senator here. Call his office and tell him to man up and do the right thing.