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29 Aug 2011, 8:45 am
Duncan claims that Attorney General Holder tried to throw the case. [read post]
23 Aug 2011, 8:58 am
One of the last good times that President Obama enjoyed before the frenzy of debt negotiations began was a chuckle he shared with Jeff Immelt, CEO of General Electric and now head of the president’s outside panel of economic advisers. [read post]
8 Aug 2011, 12:40 am
" The Obama administration represents Rumsfeld through Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 9:24 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] on Wednesday ruled [opinion, PDF] that former US attorney general John Ashcroft [JURIST news archive] is entitled to absolute immunity from the claims of a Muslim American detained for two weeks after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 [JURIST news archive]. [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]
12 Jul 2011, 1:48 pm
Haynes II (Department of Defense general counsel), and John Yoo (deputy assistant attorney general in the OLC). [read post]
11 Jul 2011, 8:33 am
The Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss a suit in May against former Attorney General John Ashcroft might help one of his former employees fight a case that has been under review for more than a year, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. [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]
30 Jun 2011, 3:08 pm
When the Court gave legal immunity to former Attorney General John Ashcroft to a lawsuit claiming he had abused a “material witness” law in order to inaugurate a regime of detention of terrorism suspects, Kennedy wrote separately to suggest a constitutional theory that Cabinet officers should have a special kind of immunity that would insulate them from lawsuits, even if the constitutionality of their conduct had come into serious question in… [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 6:29 am
Briefly: At his Jost on Justice blog, Ken Jost argues that in Ashcroft v. al-Kidd the Court gave former attorney general John Ashcroft “a pass,” while giving respondent Abdullah al-Kidd “the back of its hand” for the misuse of the material witness statute. [read post]
5 Jun 2011, 7:37 am
The recent Ashcroft v. al-Kidd case unanimously extended immunity to former Attorney General John Ashcroft for his decision to retain a witness allegedly connected to a terrorism case. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 6:23 pm
Al-Kidd, the court gave an immunity bath for our esteemed former attorney general John Ashcroft. [read post]
4 Jun 2011, 12:14 pm
Attorney General John D. [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 2:57 pm
Al-Kidd that former Attorney General John Ashcroft cannot be held responsible for the wrongful arrest and detention of U.S. [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 12:33 pm
Tuesday’s headliner was undoubtedly Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, a case originally brought by Abdullah al-Kidd, a U.S. citizen, against former Attorney General John Ashcroft. [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]
1 Jun 2011, 7:25 am
While there was lots of coverage of yesterday's seemingly slam-dunk 8 to 0 Supreme Court decision exonerating former Attorney General John Ashcroft for personal liability in the Ashcroft v. al-Kidd case (see our earlier coverage here), the most interesting analyses were the ones pointing out how uncertain and disjointed the results really are. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 7:25 am
While there was lots of coverage of yesterday's seemingly slam-dunk 8 to 0 Supreme Court decision exonerating former Attorney General John Ashcroft for personal liability in the Ashcroft v. al-Kidd case (see our earlier coverage here), the most interesting analyses were the ones pointing out how uncertain and disjointed the results really are. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 7:00 am
In a rather strange case, yesterday, the Supreme Court decided to dismiss a suit by Abdullah al-Kidd against former Attorney General John Ashcroft on qualified immunity grounds. [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]
