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17 Mar 2008, 2:40 am
“A backbench parliamentary bill that could have excluded the multimillionaire Tory donor Lord Ashcroft from the Lords is likely to fail after Labour and the Tories joined forces to reject the measure. [read post]
19 May 2009, 8:05 am
The Civil Procedure listserv has been aflutter ever since the Supreme Court yesterday released Ashcroft v. [read post]
14 Oct 2009, 9:24 am
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Professor Kris Kobach purport to defend what law professors have roundly chastised, the Board of Immigration Appeals' 2002 "streamlining" reforms. [read post]
29 Oct 2009, 7:20 am
For those who were unable to attend or watch the live webcast of this week's congressional hearing on Ashcroft v. [read post]
17 Jun 2015, 5:17 pm by Steven D. Schwinn
Schwinn, John Marshall Law School The Second Circuit ruled today that a civil rights case by former alien detainees against former AG John Ashcroft, former FBI Director Robert Mueller, former INS Commissioner James Zigler, and officials at the... [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]
23 Apr 2009, 4:56 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [official website] on Wednesday released a report [text] by the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] indicating that former attorney general John Ashcroft and former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice in 2002 approved the use of waterboarding and other extreme interrogation techniques used by CIA agents against Guantanamo Bay [ [read post]
26 May 2004, 1:58 pm
US Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller are holding a press conference to discuss the possibility of a major terrorist attack on US soil this summer. [read post]
16 Sep 2003, 8:32 am
AP reports on a speech delivered Monday by US Attorney General John Ashcroft in which he described criticisms of the Patriot Act made by the American Library Association and others as "hysteria and hyperbole. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 3:27 am
[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] on Monday agreed to hear three cases [Order List, PDF], including Ashcroft v. [read post]
25 Feb 2004, 7:47 pm
AP reports that Attorney General John Ashcroft has formed a Joint Intelligence Coordinating Council in order to direct intelligence-gathering among Justice Department agencies and to ensure the collection of useful intelligence in the war against terrorist groups. [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]
23 Jun 2004, 3:45 pm
Government watchdog group Project on Government Oversight (POG0) filed suit against Attorney General John Ashcroft Wednesday over the reclassification of documents relating to a whistleblower's claims of security lapses in the FBI's translator program. [read post]
28 Feb 2003, 12:20 pm
[JURIST] Attorney General John Ashcroft and Senate Judiciary Committee Orrin Hatch both issued statements Friday reacting to the decision of the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals noted earlier today on JURIST [JURIST report] not to rehear en banc a case in which the court had held that school recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance offended the Establishment Clause. [read post]
21 May 2007, 7:12 am
JOHN ASHCROFT, civil liberties hero! [read post]
28 Sep 2004, 9:24 pm
Seeking to prevent the Justice Department from obtaining records of telephone calls between two journalists and their confidential sources, the New York Times has filed a lawsuit against US Attorney General John Ashcroft. [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]