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27 Jun 2012, 2:56 am
You could have knocked on your boss, John Ashcroft's door and had a chat about bringing fundamental fairness back to our criminal laws. [read post]
31 May 2012, 9:13 am
Parts of the surveillance program were so egregious that the upper echelon of the Justice Department, including then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, threatened to resign en masse if it wasn’t changed. [read post]
21 May 2012, 6:00 am
Perhaps the decision by Academi (formerly Blackwater) to appoint former Attorney General John Ashcroft as their lead ethics agent is a step in this direction. [read post]
7 May 2012, 10:37 am
Yoo, finding that plaintiffs do not have a cause of action against the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. [read post]
7 May 2012, 10:37 am
Yoo, finding that plaintiffs do not have a cause of action against the former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John C. [read post]
2 May 2012, 11:43 am
In addition, the Circuit Court said its decision was required by a Supreme Court ruling last year in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, barring a constitutional lawsuit against former Attorney General John Ashcroft over the roundup of terrorism suspects after the September 11 terrorist attacks. [read post]
2 May 2012, 11:14 am
(John Elwood) A unanimous panel of the Ninth Circuit (Fisher, Smith, Pallmeyer (dj, NDIll, by designation)) held today that former OLC Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo is entitled to qualified immunity in the lawsuit brought by former detainee Jose Padilla. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 3:39 pm
Not long after the 9/11 attacks, then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, used this formula to define the new American environment and so the thinking that went with it: “Terrorist operatives infiltrate our communities -- plotting, planning, and waiting to kill again. [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]
13 Feb 2012, 1:30 am
PA Media Lawyer reported on 3 February that the Attorney General was investigating the case, but the Guardian declined to comment. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 2:30 am
PA Media Lawyer reports that the Attorney General is investigating the case of a Guardian journalist who reportedly tweeted the name of a juror and detail of the legal argument given in the absence of the jury during the trial of Harry Redknapp. [read post]
29 Jan 2012, 4:07 pm
The matter has been referred to the Attorney General, according to Legal Week, which has a report here. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 8:17 am
What fate now (pace former attorney general John Ashcroft and the “Spirit of Justice”) for the bare buttocks in the marble friezes adorning the Court itself to which Seth Waxman, representing ABC, called Justice Scalia’s surprised attention? [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 12:15 pm
Abdullah al-Kidd (2011) Former Attorney General John Ashcroft Fast foward fifty years. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 8:24 am
Sections 102 and 103 of the Stop Online Piracy Act fill this gap by giving the Attorney General and copyright holders new tools that directly target rogue sites. [read post]
4 Oct 2011, 9:42 am
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]
22 Sep 2011, 3:30 pm
(Eugene Volokh) As I noted in an earlier post, Confronting Terror: 9/11 and the Future of American National Security is a new book of essays edited by Dean Reuter and John Yoo; the contributors include (among many others) Michael Chertoff, John Ashcroft, Laurence Silberman, Richard Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, Jonathan Turley, and Nadine Strossen.I thought I’d give people a flavor of this book by posting two chapters, one by former Attorney… [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 3:30 pm
The contributors are a very notable group, including (among many others) Michael Chertoff, John Ashcroft, Laurence Silberman, Richard Epstein, Alan Dershowitz, Jonathan Turley, and Nadine Strossen.I thought I’d give people a flavor of this book by posting two chapters, one by former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Prof. [read post]
11 Sep 2011, 3:30 am
While there are many reasons for that, perhaps the most important one is the imperative that started just post 9/11, when President Bush turned to Attorney General John Ashcroft and said, “Don’t let this happen again. [read post]
29 Aug 2011, 9:43 am
Duncan claims that Attorney General Holder tried to throw the case. [read post]
