Reading New York Sen. Charles Schumer’s Times op-ed on his support for Judge Mukasey for U.S. attorney general got me thinking. (It doesn’t happen too often!) On the one hand, you have today’s news that a New York grand jury has indicted former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik on multiple counts of corruption, to which Kerik has pleaded not guilty. Kerik, of course, is a former close associate and protege of Rudy Giuliani, and the indictment will dog the Giuliani campaign for some time. On the day the indictment came down, Mitt Romney’s campaign issued a press release on its candidate’s ethics reform agenda, and John McCain told a New Hampshire audience member that Kerik’s fall is reason to question Giuliani’s judgment. On the other hand, you have Mukasey, whom Giuliani has known for around three decades (they tried the Bertram Podell case together) and of whom one of the most partisan (and effective) Democrats writes:
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