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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]
28 Sep 2006, 11:13 am
[JURIST] US District Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho [official website] on Wednesday ruled that former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] does not have absolute immunity from a lawsuit alleging that the government wrongfully arrested plaintiff Abdullah al Kidd as a material witness [HRW backgrounder] in a failed computer terrorism case [indictment, PDF] against a [read post]
28 Sep 2006, 7:18 am
Attorney General John Ashcroft does not have absolute immunity in a lawsuit related to material witnesses filed by a student. [read post]
13 Sep 2006, 2:00 am
[JURIST] Former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [BBC profile], who resigned from the post in November 2004, told an audience at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Tuesday that President Bush has done less harm to civil liberties than any other wartime president in US history, and said that Bush administration efforts to combat terrorism, including the USA Patriot Act [JURIST news [read post]
20 Feb 2006, 5:12 pm
Ciongoli, a former top aide to Attorney General John Ashcroft and an architect of the Bush administration's legal strategy after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to be one of his law clerks. [read post]
16 Feb 2006, 7:21 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] has sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website] seeking to dissuade the committee from calling former Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] and Deputy Attorney General James Comey [official profile] to testify before the panel, saying their testimony would provide no new information [read post]
15 Feb 2006, 4:47 am
Ciongoli, a former counselor to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft [official profile] as one of his five law clerks. [read post]
28 Sep 2005, 8:05 pm
[JURIST] A federal district judge Wednesday rejected a claim by former US Attorney General John Ashcroft [Wikipedia profile; JURIST news archive] that the government should be exempt from certain regulations during national emergencies and allowed the continuation of a lawsuit by two Muslim men who said they were abused after being arrested after the Sept. 11 attacks. [read post]
19 Mar 2005, 1:56 am
[JURIST] Former US attorney general John Ashcroft [Wikipedia profile] has accepted a part-time position as Distinguished Professor of Law and Government at Regent University [official website], the Virginia Beach Christian graduate school headed by evangelist Pat Robertson [Regent University President & Chancellor profile; evangelical profile]. [read post]
11 Nov 2004, 3:02 am
[JURIST] Reaction to President Bush's nomination of White House Counsel, and former Texas Supreme Court Judge, Alberto Gonzales to succeed John Ashcroft as US Attorney General has been mixed, with most of the criticism citing Gonzales' role in setting administration policy on detaining and questioning people captured in the fight against terrorism. [read post]
9 Nov 2004, 9:53 am
[JURIST] AP is reporting that Attorney General John Ashcroft has resigned from the Bush cabinet, along with Commerce Secretary Don Evans. [read post]
4 Nov 2004, 7:59 am
[JURIST] Senior aides said today that controversial Attorney General John Ashcroft was likely to step down before January's inauguration, citing exhaustion and stress. [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]
13 Apr 2004, 8:46 am
Former FBI head Louis Freeh, former Attorney General Janet Reno and current AG John Ashcroft testify today before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. [read post]
12 Mar 2004, 12:36 am
Read their letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft here [PDF; via Talking Points Memo]. [read post]
20 Jan 2004, 2:05 pm
Former senior members of the Justice Department in the Clinton Administration have accused Attorney General John Ashcroft of operating contrary to traditional [read post]
1 Oct 2003, 8:32 am
Former Iran/Contra Associate Independent Counsel Sandra Jordan, now a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, has called upon Attorney General John Ashcroft to appoint a special counsel to fairly and publicly investigate allegations that White House personnel leaked the classified identity of an undercover CIA operative to journalists. [read post]
25 Feb 2003, 1:26 pm
[JURIST] Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Tuesday that a federal grand jury in Denver had returned a 12-count indictment charging four former executives of Qwest Communications with corporate accounting fraud. [read post]
