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10 Dec 2008, 5:49 pm
The government appeal in the case seeks to spare former Attorney General John D. [read post]
3 May 2007, 5:18 am
The items included the following: (1) a 2001 National Day of Prayer poster, featuring George Washington kneeling in prayer; (2) a May 15, 2004, Daily Press news article entitled "The God Gap," outlining religious and philosophical differences between President Bush and his challenger John Kerry; (3) an October 14, 2002, USA Today news article entitled "White House Staffers Gather for Bible Study,"describing how then Attorney General Ashcroft… [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 11:57 pm
Shame on former Attorney General John Ashcroft and the entire Bush Administration. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 11:45 am by Josh Camson
Haynes was the former General Counsel for the Department of Defense, while Yoo was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 6:29 am by Nabiha Syed
Briefly: At his Jost on Justice blog, Ken Jost argues that in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd the Court gave former attorney general John Ashcroft “a pass,” while giving respondent Abdullah al-Kidd “the back of its hand” for the misuse of the material witness statute. [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 4:22 am by SHG
So, too, was John Ashcroft informed by his conservatism in writing a memo 10 years earlier urging his prosecutors to charge the most serious provable offense. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:42 am by Judicial Watch Blog
Examples include: The Dick Cheney Energy Task Force records that JW pursued before the United States Supreme Court; Attorney General John Ashcroft’s order advising government agencies to withhold all discretionary disclosures; invoking executive privilege to block the House Government Reform Committee’s probe of the Campaign Financing Task Force. [read post]
2 Mar 2011, 11:29 pm by Jeff Gamso
  Ashcroft is John, former Attorney General. [read post]
15 Jun 2017, 2:28 pm by Amy Howe and Mark Walsh
There is a long list of prominent Republicans in the audience, including former attorneys general Edwin Meese (under President Ronald Reagan) and John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales and Michael Mukasey (under President George W. [read post]
5 Sep 2007, 1:44 pm
Comey, Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Lockheed Martin and former Deputy Attorney General, whose recent congressional testimony about a meeting in John Ashcroft's hospital room set off shock waves in Washington. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 2:57 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
Al-Kidd that former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be held responsible for the wrongful arrest and detention of U.S. [read post]
24 May 2007, 9:55 am
  Silvestre Reyes, the Texas Democrat who leads the House Intelligence Committee, announced the June hearings will include testimony from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the newly minted freedom fighter and former AG John Ashcroft, former Deputy AG James Comey, secret court judges and outside experts. [read post]
7 Dec 2008, 10:32 pm
Granted that it is not much of a standard for comparison, but Holder is no Alberto Gonzales, and he's considerably more sane than John Ashcroft. [read post]
16 Nov 2006, 4:48 am
However, with new reforms set into place by former Attorney General John Ashcroft board membership was cut to 11 from 23 and tight deadlines were set in order to reduce a large backlog. [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 4:33 pm
The Office of Professional Responsibility won clearances to investigate if Justice Department lawyers, including former AG John Ashcroft acted improperly in approving the spying on Americans. [read post]
10 Jul 2009, 12:44 pm
That led to a much publicized showdown that included a race to then Attorney General John Ashcroft’s hospital bed and a handwritten note, never delivered, from FBI director Robert Mueller. [read post]
8 Sep 2009, 2:02 pm
Retired Justice David Souter, Sotomayor’s predecessor, was on hand, as was Solicitor General Elena Kagan and a bipartisan selection of former attorneys- and solicitors-general: Democrats Benjamin Civiletti, Seth Waxman and Walter Dellinger, and Republicans John Ashcroft, Richard Thornburgh, Ted Olson and Gregory Garre (who, it was announced on Tuesday, will be joining Latham & Watkins). [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 9:30 am
Attorney General Ashcroft famously did an about-face on that question back in 2001, and OLC subsequently wrote a long (and in my humble opinion embarrassing) Opinion supporting the AG's views.Despite this change in the underlying constitutional theory, DOJ continued to defend the constitutionality of all known gun laws, especially all federal gun laws. [read post]