Word: ashcroft
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...Ashcroft, former Attorney General John • lawsuit can be filed against, according to a federal-appeals-court ruling, for the "repugnant" evidence-free preventive detention of American Muslims...
...months later, however, Ridge says he did get the sense that politics might be at play. There was a heated discussion on the weekend before the 2004 election, in which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft made their case in vain to raise the terrorism threat level. Ridge now admits that he thought political calculation might have been at play. (Polls supporting Bush tended to spike when the terrorism threat level went up.) But he is not about to accuse either Rumsfeld or Ashcroft of letting politics cloud their judgment. "I'm not trying to second-guess...
...after strong lobbying by Democrats and Hispanic groups, Sotomayor's nomination came up for a vote in the Senate on Oct. 3, 1998. The vote was 67-29 in her favor. The nays included two Republicans who had voted against her in the Judiciary Committee: John Ashcroft, who is no longer on the Hill, and John Kyl of Arizona, who is still on the committee and is also the Senate Republican whip. (Seven GOP members who are still in the Senate today voted to approve the nomination...
...site belonging to a school-cafeteria consultant. "The only thing I can think of [that may have put me on the list] is that I have e-mailed schools telling them about my book and CD resource, 'How to Have a Healthy and Profitable Theme Day,'" owner Jocelyn Ashcroft told the Sydney Morning Herald...
...better set of characters: There was Bush, the prodigal-son-turned-born-again with a characteristic smirk and a penchant for butchering the English language; Cheney, with all the charm of a superhero villain and the mannerisms to match; and the entire gang—from Rumsfeld to Ashcroft, Rove to Gonzalez—each with his own set of laughable, unlovable idiosyncrasies...