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Alberto Gonzales, who served as White House counsel and attorney general in the George W. Bush administration, threw his support behind Vice President Kamala Harris in a POLITICO Magazine op-ed published Thursday morning.(snip)Gonzales and Cheney were both widely reviled by liberals and Democrats during the Bush years, particularly over their roles in the domestic and foreign responses to 9/11.Gonzales, acting as Bush's top White House lawyer, signed an infamous memo in 2002 arguing that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to either al-Qaeda or Taliban detainees, and that those rules were "quaint" and "obsolete" in dealing with the War on...

Another high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday, calling former President Donald Trump “perhaps the most serious threat to the rule of law in a generation.” Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez revealed his support for Harris in an op-ed for Politico, saying he couldn’t “sit quietly” as Trump “eyes a return to the White House.” “The American presidency is the most powerful position in the world. Of course, our constitution and laws, as well as institutions such as Congress and our courts, act as guardrails to that power,” wrote the 69-year-old former...