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19 Mar 2005, 1:56 am
[JURIST] Former US attorney general John Ashcroft [Wikipedia profile] has accepted a part-time position as Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at Regent University [official website], the Virginia Beach Christian graduate school headed by evangelist Pat Robertson [Regent University President & Chancellor profile; evangelical profile]. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 7:37 am
The recent Ashcroft v. al-Kidd case unanimously extended immunity to former Attorney General John Ashcroft for his decision to retain a witness allegedly connected to a terrorism case. [read post]
16 Feb 2006, 7:21 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] has sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website] seeking to dissuade the committee from calling former Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] and Deputy Attorney General James Comey [official profile] to testify before the panel, saying their testimony would provide no new information [read post]
31 May 2011, 9:46 am
Al-Kidd that former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be held responsible for the wrongful arrest and detention of U.S. citizen Abdullah al-Kidd under the material witness law. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 10:30 am
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website, JURIST news archive] on Monday granted certorari [order list, PDF] in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd [docket; cert. petition, PDF] to determine whether former US attorney general John Ashcroft [JURIST news archive] is entitled to absolute or qualified immunity against claims that he used the material witness statute [18 USC § 3144 text] as a "pretext" to preventatively detain terrorism… [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 1:40 pm
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case in which a private citizen sued former Attorney General John Ashcroft over allegations that Ashcroft abused federal law to lock up a U.S. citizen as a "material witness. [read post]
27 Jun 2008, 8:54 am
[JURIST] Controversial US interrogation policies outlined in two 2002 and 2003 memoranda [PDF texts; JURIST report] were reviewed by top Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile], according to two former Bush administration officials testifying before the House Judiciary Committee [official website] Thursday. [read post]
19 May 2007, 11:01 pm
John Ashcroft was not an acceptable Attorney General. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 12:02 pm
Al-Kidd [oral arguments transcript, PDF; JURIST report], former US attorney general John Ashcroft [JURIST news archive], appealed the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that absolute and qualified [AELE backgrounders] immunity do not shield him... [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 9:24 am
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Professor Kris Kobach purport to defend what law professors have roundly chastised, the Board of Immigration Appeals' 2002 "streamlining" reforms. [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 10:21 am
Attorney in New Jersey awarded to John Ashcroft, the former attorney general-turned-confidential strategic consultant. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 4:56 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [official website] on Wednesday released a report [text] by the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] indicating that former attorney general John Ashcroft and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2002 approved the use of waterboarding and other extreme interrogation techniques used by CIA agents against Guantanamo Bay [ [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 9:24 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that former US attorney general John Ashcroft [JURIST news archive] is entitled to absolute immunity from the claims of a Muslim American detained for two weeks after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 12:42 pm
Earlier this week, Think Progress reported on former Attorney General John Ashcroft's comment about torture in a speech he gave Monday at St. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 12:27 pm
[JURIST] Personal notes [PDF text] by FBI Director Robert Mueller released Thursday reveal that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] was "feeble, barely articulate, [and] clearly stressed" when current Attorney General and then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales confronted him in his hospital room in March 2004 to obtain reauthorization of the warrantless domestic [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 8:50 am
One of them, Abdullah Al-Kidd, sued former Attorney General John Ashcroft personally. [read post]
25 Nov 2007, 9:46 am
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft's consulting firm is set to make $52 million in fees as a result of being picked by New Jersey U.S. [read post]
13 Apr 2004, 8:46 am
Former FBI head Louis Freeh, former Attorney General Janet Reno and current AG John Ashcroft testify today before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. [read post]
28 Sep 2005, 8:05 pm
[JURIST] A federal district judge Wednesday rejected a claim by former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news archive] that the government should be exempt from certain regulations during national emergencies and allowed the continuation of a lawsuit by two Muslim men who said they were abused after being arrested after the Sept. 11 attacks. [read post]
16 Nov 2007, 5:47 am
And so, on Wednesday, at the swearing-in of Attorney General Michael Mukasey at the Justice Department, former attorney general John D. [read post]
