Alberto Gonzales

Biography

Born the August 5th 1955 with San Antonio with the Texas, junior by a family of 8 children, Alberto Gonzales was high with Houston. His/her parents were Mexican immigrants and his father, Pablo Gonzales, died in 1982, a workman of the building.

Student shining, Alberto Gonzales enlisted in the American air force in 1973, was affected during 2 years in Alaska before entering to the academy of the American air force in 1975.

Graduate of a license of political science in 1979, it obtains in 1982 a license in right of the university of Harvard.

Very active in Texas in various activities, he is lawyer since 1982 within Vinson and Elkins, a law firm of Houston, which also represents the company Enron.

In 1994, it is named legal adviser of the new governor of Texas, George W. Bush. It is on this occasion that it will develop a legal argument making it possible George W. Bush to avoid being called like member of the jury in an legal affair. It is also as an legal adviser that Gonzales will have to treat all the relative files with the application of the Capital punishment and will deliver in priority its opinions on the requests for leniency, always in the facts followed by the Bush governor.

In 1997, the Bush governor names it Secretary of State of Texas then in 1999, names it at the Supreme court of the state of Texas. In 1999, he is elected Hispanic lawyer of the year by association national of Hispanic lawyers.

In 2000, Gonzales, which receives 6500 $ on behalf of Enron for its electoral campaign, is re-elected at the Supreme court of Texas with 81% of the voices against the candidate of the Parti libertarien.

In 2001, Bush, become president of the United States, appoints it legal adviser of the White House, a central and exposed station.

Thus in January 2002, Gonzales is the author of a conclusive memorandum disputed other than the application of the Geneva Convention for the Terroriste S of Al-Qaida and the Taliban S captured in Afghanistan imprisoned in particular to the Camp X-Ray of Guantanamo to Cuba, which are qualified enemy combatants and not of prisoners of war.

Gonzales was then shown to maintain a climate of impunity having led to the abuses and the violations the noted human rights to the prison of Abou Ghraib in Iraq in 2004. Indeed, in one of its memoranda, Gonzales had given a restrictive definition of the Torture, practical prohibited, and had limited it to the body lesions final or being able to result in death ( injury such ace death, organ failure, gold serious impairment off body functions - in order to constitute torture ).

Alberto Gonzales is also shown to be implied in the transfer of foreign enemy combatants to countries practitioner torture although such a procedure forever noted or proven.

Alberto Gonzales is at the origin of the order in Council authorizing the recourse to the military tribunals to judge the terrorist suspects, of the legal sales leaflet used to prevent the Congress from having access to the preparatory documents with the laws on energy and the environment and of the installation of the Patriot Act of which it was one of the first defenders.

The November 10th 2004, after the re-election of George W. Bush, her nomination as Attorney General (Minister for justice) to replace John Ashcroft is announced for the second presidential mandate.

Contrary to Ashcroft, Gonzales makes figure of moderate. It is rather in favor of the right to the Avortement and is a supportor of the Positive discrimination ( affirmative action ).

The decision to name Alberto Gonzales at the station of Attorney General however is very discussed, by the left because of its memoranda on torture and by the right-hand side because of its standpoint moderated as regards manners. Many estimates that the station is in fact only one springboard for the nomination with the Supreme court of the United States.

The February 3rd 2005, Alberto Gonzales is confirmed at the post of minister of justice by the senate by 60 votes against 36.

The February 14th 2005, it lends oath becoming the Hispanic one highest ever placed in an American administration.

Implied in several political matters like one related to the ousting of federal prosecutors in 2006, perceived like a political purging or another on its role supposed in a vast program of wiretappings, he escapes a motion from distrust from the Senate in June 2007. Finally, the August 27th 2007, the White House announces its resignation of the government, it is replaced the day-even by its assistant Paul D. Clément.

Private life

Catholic, married 2 times, he is father of 3 children resulting from its second marriage.

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