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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]
19 May 2007, 11:01 pm
John Ashcroft was not an acceptable Attorney General. [read post]
14 May 2004, 3:16 pm
Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller introduced Friday the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan [PDF], a new nationwide strategy to ensure that state and local authorities can access federal law enforcement intelligence on terrorism and crime. [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]
14 Jun 2004, 12:41 pm
Attorney General John Ashcroft Monday announced the four-count indictment of a Somali native living in Columbus, who is charged with plotting with other al Qaeda operatives to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall. [read post]
29 Jun 2004, 8:49 pm
Several US senators have sent letters to US Attorney General John Ashcroft asking why the DoJ released terror suspect Nabil al-Marabh to Syria after prosecutors and FBI agents had collected evidence for potential criminal charges against him. [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]
14 Jun 2016, 8:04 am
"Where John Ashcroft and Merrick Garland meet": Gabe Roth has this essay online at The St. [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]
26 Jan 2004, 9:52 am
Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday. [read post]
15 May 2007, 3:13 pm
You know a government surveillance program is getting a tad iffy when John Ashcroft balks at giving it his John Hancock, even just for a while. [read post]
20 May 2007, 2:32 pm
The Washington Post has a fascinating article on former US Attorney-General John Ashcroft:As attorney general, John D. [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]
23 Jun 2004, 3:45 pm
Government watchdog group Project on Government Oversight (POG0) filed suit against Attorney General John Ashcroft Wednesday over the reclassification of documents relating to a whistleblower's claims of security lapses in the FBI's translator program. [read post]
28 Feb 2003, 12:20 pm
[JURIST] Attorney General John Ashcroft and Senate Judiciary Committee Orrin Hatch both issued statements Friday reacting to the decision of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals noted earlier today on JURIST [JURIST report] not to rehear en banc a case in which the court had held that school recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance offended the Establishment Clause. [read post]
28 Sep 2006, 11:13 am
[JURIST] US District Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho [official website] on Wednesday ruled that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] does not have absolute immunity from a lawsuit alleging that the government wrongfully arrested plaintiff Abdullah al Kidd as a material witness [HRW backgrounder] in a failed computer terrorism case [indictment, PDF] against a [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]
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]
26 May 2004, 1:58 pm
US Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller are holding a press conference to discuss the possibility of a major terrorist attack on US soil this summer. [read post]
16 Sep 2003, 8:32 am
AP reports on a speech delivered Monday by US Attorney General John Ashcroft in which he described criticisms of the Patriot Act made by the American Library Association and others as "hysteria and hyperbole. [read post]
