Charlie, how did you forget that Joe Lieberman was AG of CT and that Michael Mukassey was Bush II’s second AG? BTW, I heard of a case decades ago where a Jew was given a summons for operating his pushcart on Sun in NYC. When he went to court he explained that he kept Shabbat and could not take off two days per week. The conversation went like this:
Judge : What do you do on Sat?
Vendor: I go to a synagogue.
Judge : Do you go there every Sat?
Vendor: Yes.
Judge : Did you go there this past Sat?
Vendor: Yes.
Judge : What parsha was read?
The vendor answered correctly and the judge dismissed the summons adding “If you hadn’t known I would have hanged you”.