Alberto Gonzales
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Alberto Reynaldo Gonzales is an American lawyer who served as the 80th United States attorney general from 2005 to 2007. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic American in the executive government in American history until the appointment of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State in 2025.
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U.S. President George W. Bush announces his nomination of Gonzales to succeed Ashcroft as the next Attorney General during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room Wednesday, November 10, 2004.
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor presents Gonzales to the audience after swearing him in as Attorney General, as Mrs. Gonzales looks on.
Gonzales and his wife Rebecca, with George W. Bush and Laura Bush, at the Prairie Chapel Ranch on August 26, 2007, the day that Gonzales's resignation was acceptedIn their own words 10
I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.
in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2008.
There is no express grant of habeas in the Constitution. There's a prohibition against taking it away.
2007-01-17 Testimony during questioning by Senator Arlen Specter.
A strong and independent Judiciary is necessary for our republic to remain strong, for our democracy to survive, and for the rule of law to flourish.
Speech to American Enterprise Institute (January 17, 2007)
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Alberto Reynaldo Gonzales is an American lawyer who served as the 80th United States attorney general from 2005 to 2007. He was the highest-ranking Hispanic American in the executive government in American history until the appointment of Marco Rubio as Secretary of State in 2025. He previously served as Secretary of State of Texas, as a Texas Supreme Court Justice, and as White House Counsel, becoming the first Hispanic to hold that office.
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