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15 May 2007, 1:33 pm
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. [read post]
15 May 2007, 5:37 am
Then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales called on Attorney General John Ashcroft in the hospital to try to get around his decision. [read post]
15 May 2007, 4:48 am
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey just completed his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
15 May 2007, 4:48 am
Former Deputy Attorney General James Comey just completed his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [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]
28 Apr 2007, 4:03 pm
From Seasoned veterans to Hot & Naked Amateurs attempting death-defying thrills"  But former Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped appearing for news conferences at the Justice Department's "Spirit of Justice" statue  (a female figure, with her right breast completely exposed) until the statue was appropriately draped. [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 11:42 am
Whitehouse highlighted two memos -- one written in 1994 by then-Attorney General Janet Reno, and another written in 2002 by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft -- that defined the channels through which the White House and the Justice Department could discuss criminal investigations. [read post]
13 Apr 2007, 9:38 am
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft will be speaking at Marquette on Wednesday, April 25th. [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]
28 Mar 2007, 6:22 pm
Then Attorney General John Ashcroft was out in the hospital for a gallbladder operation. [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]
21 Mar 2007, 10:40 am
I will never forget John Ashcroft, then the attorney general, telling me during the summer of 2001 that politics should play no role during my tenure. [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 9:00 am
Last spring, while we obsessed over former judges who continue to call themselves judge, the Justice Department confirmed to us Attorney General Gonzales — a former Texas Supreme Court judge — prefers to be called “Judge Gonzales” rather than “General Gonzales.” President Bush just calls him “Al.” (His predecessor, John Ashcroft, who never served as a judge, supposedly liked to be called… [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 12:05 am
Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that an energy company had been charged with conspiring to jack up electricity prices during California's 2001 power crisis, the case ended Tuesday with deferred prosecution agreements. [read post]
26 Jan 2007, 2:47 pm
Attorney General; David Ayres, former chief of staff for the U.S. [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 12:09 pm
That's the title of an AP report carried here by Newsday about the use of the federal death penalty in New York and a current glut of cases.Death penalty opponents have complained that starting with the tenure of former Attorney General John Ashcroft, officials in Washington began rubber-stamping death penalty cases, particularly in states with no capital punishment of their own. [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 3:35 am
The Hampton Roads Daily Press reports that the censored items included articles about President Bush's religious faith and former Attorney General John Ashcroft's prayer meetings with his staff, a flyer about the National Day of Prayer and a depiction of George Washington praying at Valley Forge. [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]
12 Nov 2006, 4:43 am
Gonzales and former Attorney General John Ashcroft authorized 180 death penalty prosecutions, including 51 cases in which the local U.S. attorney's office did not recommend capital punishment, according to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel Project, a national information clearinghouse for court-appointed defense lawyers in federal death-penalty cases. [read post]