"2 conservative attorney generals..."
I liked John Ashcroft, not Alberto "MECHA" Gonzales.
"doesn't kowtow to the UN"
See: Law Of the Sea Treaty (LOST).
Yep, Law Of the Sea Treaty is a bad idea from a lot of angles. The most basic being that it is a potentially huge expansion of UN powers, even to effectively giving them the right to confiscate technology from private firms so it can be given away to competitors.