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19 May 2007, 9:20 pm
"Ashcroft's Complex Tenure At Justice; On Some Issues, He Battled White House": This front page article will appear Sunday in The Washington Post. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 8:52 pm by Orin Kerr
Al-Kidd has sued John Ashcroft under the Fourth Amendment for Ashcroft’s policy of using the material witness statute for purposes of national security detention. [read post]
8 Nov 2010, 9:13 am by Glenn Reynolds
WES OLIVER, who’s visiting here at Tennessee this semester, has a post on Ashcroft v. al-Kidd and Material Witness Detention. [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]
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]
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]
22 Apr 2009, 3:39 pm
Today Ashcroft (pictured, right) announced that his law and consulting firm, The Ashcroft Group, is opening four new offices across the country, each to be led by Bush-appointed U.S. attorneys leaving office to make way for appointees by President Obama. [read post]
6 Dec 2009, 10:30 pm
David Cameron states that Lord Ashcroft's tax affairs are nothing to do with him and are a matter for Lord Ashcroft and HM Revenue and Customs. [read post]
4 Mar 2010, 7:39 am by charonqc
  The latest ‘Alice and Wonderland’ fable comes from The Independent… Tories cleared over Ashcroft donations An Electoral Commission report today cleared the Conservative Party and its deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft of breaching electoral law in relation to £5.1 million of donations from Bearwood Corporate Services. [read post]
21 Apr 2021, 10:00 pm by Chris Dreyer
James Ashcroft is a businessman and certified coach for the Entrepreneurial Operating System, a framework that businesses, including law firms, can use to create healthy workplaces in order to help them achieve their goals. [read post]
14 Mar 2010, 8:35 pm by Glenn Reynolds
Not sure what to make of this — but if John Ashcroft had staffed the Civil Rights Division with a lot of folks who had represented white supremacists, I know what the narrative would be. [read post]
17 Sep 2024, 10:19 am by Guest Author
Alissa Ardito Ashcroft is a Senior Counsel at the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund. [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]
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]
31 May 2023, 2:01 pm by Guest Author
Previously arcane arguments over the constitutionality of the public debt limit now make headlines.[1]  At the same time, debate swirls around whether the President of the United States has the constitutional authority, resting on Section Four of the 14thamendment, to ignore the debt limit. [read post]