Press release, Sen. Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee: “I am glad that Judge Mukasey has now returned the Judiciary Committee’s questionnaire (85 pages) providing important information necessary to begin a complete review of his record. The Committee will conduct the thorough review necessary for this crucial nomination, which comes at such a key juncture for the Department of Justice and for the country. The next Attorney General must be someone who will begin the process of restoring the Department of Justice to its proper mission. The Committee will work to evaluate this nomination as efficiently as possible, while performing fully the Committee’s constitutional role and taking care to ensure that the next Attorney General will answer to the principles of justice and law, not to any political party.”