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28 Apr 2008, 5:37 pm
[JURIST] US House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) [official website] Monday threatened to seek subpoenas [materials] to compel three current and former administration officials, including former Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile], to testify about a recently released Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel memorandum [text; JURIST report] that advised the US [read post]
22 Apr 2009, 3:39 pm
*John Ratcliffe, U.S. attorney in Dallas. [read post]
23 May 2009, 4:05 am
By John L. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 12:09 pm
The Supreme Court today announced it will review the case of former detainee and material witness Abdullah al-Kidd against former Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 12:33 pm
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft may be sued by an American detained for 16 days. [read post]
7 Feb 2003, 1:40 pm
[JURIST] Read an official transcript [White House press release] or watch recorded video [via C-SPAN] of Friday's briefing by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and FBI Director Robert Mueller announcing the raising of the terrorist threat level from "Elevated" to "High". [read post]
21 Jun 2007, 3:52 pm
[JURIST] Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] said Thursday at a closed-door hearing held by the US House Intelligence Committee [official website] that there had been divisions between members of the Bush administration as to whether the president's warrantless wiretapping program [JURIST news archive] was legal. [read post]
27 Feb 2003, 12:36 pm
[JURIST] Attorney General John Ashcroft and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge issued a joint statement Thursday announcing a reduction in the US terror alert level (officially, the Homeland Security Advisory System [official website]) from High/Orange to Elevated/Yellow: "The decision to raise the threat level on February 7 was based on specific intelligence, corroborated by multiple [read post]
4 Sep 2009, 6:15 pm
Ashcroft. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 2:42 am
The controversy over the appointment of monitors under deferred prosecution agreements will be the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill, and former Attorney General John Ashcroft has agreed to testify at the proceeding. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 1:24 pm
" Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that "Supreme Court to hear Ashcroft appeal of US Muslim's detention; A lower court has allowed a suit by an American Muslim, detained without charge in 2003 as a suspected material witness, to proceed against former Attorney General John Ashcroft; The Supreme Court says it will consider Ashcroft's appeal. [read post]
17 May 2007, 11:58 pm
In honor of John Ashcroft's moment of honor, as described by James Comey: And it was only a matter of minutes that the door opened and in walked Mr. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 8:35 am
A three-judge panel last Friday ruled that a a Muslim man who was detained for weeks as a material witness in a terrorism case can sue former attorney general John Ashcroft. [read post]
16 Apr 2008, 12:09 pm
He refused to sign the certification until John Yoo assured him the program was legal (although, since John reportedly relied only on the President's article II authority to ignore FISA, it's not clear how Ashcroft could possibly have certified that "all statutory requirements have been met"). [read post]
13 Apr 2004, 7:04 pm
Recorded video of live testimony by Attorney General John Ashcroft (via the New York Times), former FBI head Louis Freeh and former Attorney General Janet Reno (via C-SPAN) before the 9/11 Commission on day one of its two-day public hearing on Law Enforcement and the Intelligence Community is now available online. [read post]
5 Sep 2009, 3:10 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Friday that former attorney general John Ashcroft [JURIST news archive] is not entitled to absolute and qualified immunity, allowing an unlawful detention lawsuit by US citizen Abdullah Al-Kidd to go forward. [read post]
3 May 2012, 4:03 am
John Yoo gets immunity under Ashcroft v. al-Kidd for the “Torture Memo. [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]
23 May 2007, 4:59 am
MORE ON JOHN ASHCROFT, CIVIL LIBERTIES HERO: "In the Soviet Union, you had to be thrown into internal exile before you could be rehabilitated. [read post]
18 Oct 2010, 3:16 pm
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft* Asian moms aren’t always enthusiastic about alternative careers for their lawyer children. [read post]
