Washington - US Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while delivering a speech in Washington Thursday evening and was rushed to a hospital, US media reported. The US television network ABC quoted a lawyer in the room as saying Mukasey, 67, "started struggling with [his] speech, slurring" just before he collapsed.
He had been giving a speech to the Federalist Society at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington when he slumped at the lectern and was quickly carried away.
Justice Department staff said Mukasey was breathing as he was carried into George Washington University Medical Center, where physicians examined him.
President George W Bush nominated Mukasey, a former federal judge from New York, as attorney general in September 2007 and he took over at the Justice Department last November.
He replaced Alberto Gonzales, who resigned after a congressional investigation into allegations he politicized the department.
