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25 Jul 2007, 1:24 am
Gonzales Denies Pressuring AG Ashcroft on Intelligence-Gathering Issue
The Associated Press
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales denied that he and former White House chief of staff Andy Card tried to exploit then-AG John Ashcroft's frail condition by pressuring him to recertify President Bush's intelligence-gathering program during a 2004 hospital visit. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 2:48 pm
" HRW also recommends investigating former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Attorney General John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales (counsel to the president and later attorney general), Jay Bybee (head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC)), John Rizzo (acting CIA general counsel), David Addington (counsel to the vice president), William J. [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 12:30 pm
Officials involved in his rendition to torture, Maher Arar filed a suit in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York against former Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI Director Robert Mueller, and Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge, as well as numerous Immigration Officials. [read post]
14 May 2007, 6:38 am
Attorney General John Ashcroft. [read post]
1 Mar 2011, 6:37 am
Tomorrow, in addition to Bullcoming, the Court will hear oral argument in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd; at issue in that case is whether former Attorney General John Ashcroft is immune from a suit alleging the pretextual use of the federal material witness statute to detain terrorism suspects. [read post]
12 Jan 2017, 10:30 am
The officials – former Attorney General John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, and former INS Commissioner James Ziglar, along with Dennis Hasty and James Sherman, the wardens at the federal detention center where some detainees were held – now urge the Supreme Court to reverse that ruling and dismiss the claims against them, arguing that litigating the plaintiffs’ claims would entangle courts in questions… [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 1:00 pm
As my session with Attorney General John Ashcroft and Mueller ended, the two would proceed briskly down to the garage of the J. [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 1:22 am
Unlike some firms, Cravath did not improve its numbers by cutting its ranks. 9th Circuit Judge Bucks Tide on Ashcroft's Liability for Detention The Recorder Ninth Circuit Judge Milan Smith Jr. drew a torrent of opposition from Republican-appointed colleagues over his decision last year to allow a suit against John Ashcroft to go forward. [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 11:22 am
” In the third case, Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, the Court overturned 8-0 (with Justice Kagan recused) a Ninth Circuit decision that would have held former Attorney General John Ashcroft personally liable for using the material witness statute to engage in detention for terrorist purposes. [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 12:22 am
Richard Burr on Jan. 30, 200801/30/2008
Letter to Former Attorney General John Ashcroft From House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (PDF 80.4 KB)Letter Addresses Requests Testimony Regarding Corporate Monitoring Contracts01/30/2008
Letter to House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member John Mica and Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Thomas Petri From Department of Transportation Inspector… [read post]
15 Apr 2009, 8:43 am
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft dismissed protests about the law as "baseless hysteria. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 12:10 pm
An evocative linkage to which Kahn refers is the 2003 Board of Immigration Appeals decision In re D-J-, which then-Attorney General John Ashcroft certified to himself—in order to declare a blanket detention of Haitians seeking asylum, without bond, for the entirety of their cases—in a suit brought by a teenager named David Joseph who had arrived on the coast of Florida by boat. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 10:30 pm
Ashcroft, former Deputy Attorney General Larry D. [read post]
19 May 2009, 1:13 am
Coalition Seeks Disbarment of Bush Lawyers Over Interrogation of Terrorism Suspects
The National Law Journal
A collection of organizations filed complaints Monday with five State Bar associations, accusing former Attorneys General John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Michael Mukasey and nine other former Bush administration lawyers of violating professional standards by sanctioning the use of torture on terrorism suspects.… [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 6:15 pm
Upon being named U.S. attorney general by President Bush in 2001, John Ashcroft appeared on CNN to discuss his new position with Larry King. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 7:46 am
Al-Kidd, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that former Attorney General John Ashcroft was entitled to qualified immunity against a federal lawsuit alleging that Ashcroft ordered the use of material witness warrants as a pretext for detaining terrorism suspects against whom there was insufficient evidence to justify detention for crime. [read post]
6 Jun 2008, 3:41 pm
As Lyle previously discussed, the Court will consider a government request to overturn a Second Circuit decision that declined to dismiss a suit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller, whom the plaintiff alleges personally condoned plans to isolate all Arab and Muslim immigrants arrested near New York City in the wake of 9/11 in the maximum security wing of a Brooklyn prison. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 12:56 am
Moreover, former Attorney General John Ashcroft has explained that the Government decided to declare al-Marri an "enemy combatant" only after he became a "hard case" by "reject[ing] numerous offers to improve his lot by . . . providing information. [read post]
14 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm
Attorneys General (including John Ashcroft, Ramsey Clark, Ed Meese, Michael Mukasey), former FBI Directors Louis Freeh and William Sessions, others such as former U.S. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 6:48 am
The Court held unanimously that Abdullah al-Kidd, a U.S. citizen who was arrested as he prepared to board a flight for Saudi Arabia and was detained for sixteen days, may not sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft for alleged misuse of the federal material witness law. [read post]
