President Bush is expected to nominate retired federal judge Michael Mukasey to be the nation’s next attorney general. Mukasey served as the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan for six years and oversaw the trial of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and the first World Trade Center bombers. He has been a vocal supporter of the USA PATRIOT Act and recently said the judicial system is “not well suited” to handling terror trials. But Mukasey has also challenged some of President Bush’s war powers. In the case of Jose Padilla, he ruled that President Bush could hold Padilla as an enemy combatant without charge, but he ruled that the government must allow Padilla to see his attorneys. Mukasey is close friends with Rudy Giuliani. Both Mukasey and his son are advisers to Giuliani’s presidential campaign. In 1994 Mukasey swore Giuliani in as New York mayor; the private ceremony took place at Mukasey’s apartment.