Mukasey Faces Slow Sailing

• By John Stanton and Erin P. Billings
• Roll Call Staff
• Sept. 18, 2007, Midnight

The White House on Monday rejected demands by Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) that the administration release thousands of documents related to the U.S. attorneys scandal and other Justice Department controversies before hearings begin on President Bush’s nomination of Michael Mukasey as the new attorney general.