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22 Sep 2010, 8:04 am
In 2002, the guidelines under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft required only the "possibility" of a federal crime. [read post]
26 May 2017, 1:15 pm
In 2003, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft first issued memos directing federal prosecutors to pursue the most serious charges against people accused of federal drug crimes. [read post]
31 May 2011, 9:29 am
The Bush Administration’s wide use of an arrest tool to take terrorism suspects off the streets barely — and perhaps only temporarily — survived a major test in the Supreme Court on Tuesday, even though its principal architect — former Attorney General John D. [read post]
4 Aug 2009, 11:16 am
Supreme Court case involving a fellow named Javaid Iqbal (here, here, here) who was never charged with any 9/11-related terrorism, but nevertheless was subjected to all sorts of horrible treatment over the course of several months, and ultimately attempted to sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI director Robert S. [read post]
15 Jun 2007, 1:30 am
The court also refused to dismiss on qualified immunity grounds claims against Attorney General John Ashcroft, and FBI Director Robert Mueller that they targeted him for mistreatment and classified him as a detainee of high interest solely because of his race, ethnicity and religion. [read post]
21 Dec 2010, 2:33 pm
Former AG John Ashcroft got in trouble for making comments opining on a big terror case in Detroit. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 8:45 am
Duncan claims that Attorney General Holder tried to throw the case. [read post]
7 Dec 2008, 5:00 am
Iqbal (07-1015), involving a suit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller over allegations of racial and religious discrimination against post-9/11 Muslim detainees. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 10:40 am
According to the AP story, the new law creates more openness because it reverses orders made by former Attorney General John Ashcroft in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks that advised government agencies to withhold information if they were uncertain how such information might affect national security. [read post]
4 Jan 2010, 11:34 am
Attorney General John Ashcroft also did not learn details about the surveillance program to which Yoo was privy, until later. [read post]
29 Mar 2007, 4:53 am
Gonzales and his predecessor, former Attorney General John Ashcroft) the federal death penalty was sought 95 times, or about 16 times a year. [read post]
4 Nov 2006, 2:26 pm
He attacks the media, human rights advocates, legal academics, civil libertarians, former attorney general John Ashcroft, the Supreme Court, conservative pundit George F. [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 7:02 am
Relying on a decade-old decision of former Attorney General John Ashcroft called "Matter of D-J-," DHS says immigrant families seeking asylum must be imprisonedand denied bond to send a "deterrent" message to others. [read post]
18 May 2009, 2:56 pm
A Big Disbarment Push: A collection of organizations, most of them left-leaning, filed complaints today with five state bar associations, accusing former attorneys general John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mukasey and nine other former Bush administration lawyers — including John Yoo, Jay Bybee and Stephen Bradbury — of violating professional standards by sanctioning the use of torture on terrorism suspects. [read post]
25 Mar 2007, 3:00 am
Both US Attorneys were pressured to participate in an aggressive campaign begun by former Attorney General John Ashcroft and continued by Gonzales to extend the federal death penalty--particularly into jurisdictions without death-penalty statutes of their own. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 11:58 am
Former Attorney General John D. [read post]
9 Apr 2008, 3:15 pm
John Ashcroft, it appears, repeatedly signed off on the legality of the techniques but was squeamish about going into details, arguing "that senior White House advisers should not be involved in the grim details of interrogations. [read post]
12 May 2010, 2:38 pm
The government brief, filed on behalf of former Attorney General John D. [read post]
15 Mar 2013, 9:54 am
Attorneys General Edwin Meese III and John Ashcroft an opportunity to file an amicus brief on the issue of the Court’s jurisdiction to hear that case. [read post]
26 Jun 2009, 1:19 am
Attorney Christopher Christie told a House subcommittee on Thursday that he did nothing wrong when he steered a contract worth as much as $52 million to the firm of former Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
