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L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In 2002, then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft 'made the right call' to try Muhammad and his accomplice in Virginia instead of Maryland. On Tuesday, he is set to die by lethal injection. Seven years ago this month, the captured Beltway snipers -- John Allen Muhammad, 41, and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, 17 -- were in federal custody, accused of 16 shootings and 10 murders. They had...
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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BILL FISHER (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By William Fisher Bush-era Attorney General John Ashcroft had a busy day in court yesterday. A Federal Appeals court ruled he could not be held responsible for kidnapping a Canadian citizen in New York and shipping him off to Syria where he was imprisoned for a year and tortured. But, in another case, five men who had been living in New York and were ultimately deported won a $1.26 million...
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What Really happened (Free subscription) | yesterday
For the second time in two years a federal appellate court has denied Canadian citizen Maher Arar the right to sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other US government officials for money damages based on his "extraordinary rendition" to Syria, where he was imprisoned without due process and tortured for almost a year. On November 2, a divided panel of eleven judges...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"D.C. Sniper" John Muhammad will be executed in Virginia tomorrow unless Gov. Tim Kaine intervenes. The Supreme Court today refused to block the execution . Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg and Sotomayor issued this statement (pdf), expressing frustration with Virginia for rushing the process: [More...] This case highlights once again the perversity of executing inmates before their appeals...
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Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
... Director Robert Mueller, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and former Attorney General John Ashcroft) who allegedly conspired to have him kidnapped and tortured. Arar is safe now, recovering in Canada with his family. But the decision sends a signal to the Obama administration that there will be no judicial intervention to halt the cruel excesses of the Bush-era Global...
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Mark's campaign notepad (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... up this sort of finance. Speaking of conjurers, when are we going to get to the bottom of the John Ashcroft mystery? Not that I’m suggesting the Cash cash comes from Ashcroft, of course – I have no idea where it comes from. Looking a bit more closely at the Cash mailing, it’s the usual souffle of nouvelle cuisine Tory-lite – “breath of fresh air”, “honesty above popularity”....
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
On Oct. 12, 2003, the Star Tribune published an op-ed I wrote responding to a speech in the Twin Cities by U.S. Atty. Gen. John...
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Corruption Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... and most have been deported. The five who sued the government claimed that then Attorney General John Ashcroft, prison personnel, FBI supervisors and other officials violated their rights by imprisoning them on the basis of their race and religion. The Muslims from Pakistan, Egypt and Turkey assert that they were illegally detained victims of racial profiling. In a separate lawsuit...
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The Court (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... sought to dismiss her complaint in September. (HT: Georgetown Law’s Security Law Brief .) Arar v. Ashcroft : An Extraordinarily Rendered Dissent Also on the rendition beat, in this week’s Harper’s blog , Scott Horton lays into the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit about its decision in Arar v. Ashcroft . Horton castigates the court for its dismissal of Maher Arar’s civil...
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
APFormer Attorney General John Ashcroft. A suit, filed in 2002, claimed that former Ashcroft, prison personnel, FBI supervisors and other officials violated more than 170 detainees' rights by imprisoning them on the basis of their race and religion. Five of...
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Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... Wheeler attracted a crowd that included Gov. Bill Ritter; Lt. Gov. Barbara O'Brien; Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper; Tom Boasberg, superintendent of the Denver Public Schools; and Piton Foundation founder Sam Gary.It also was the occasion to introduce Chris Watney, the new leader of the Colorado Children's Campaign. She previously served as the agency's executive vice president; before that,...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
John Fund has a very informative column about voter fraud in New Jersey in the Wall Street Journal today. Fund raises doubts about the willingness of the Holder Justice Department to do anything about possible fraud, and he is right to be concerned. When I was at the Justice Department during the Bush administration, the Left constantly complained about the fact that John Ashcroft...
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Truth Out (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Former Bush administration Attorney General John Ashcroft had a busy day in court yesterday. A federal appeals court ruled he could not be held responsible for kidnapping a Canadian citizen in New York and shipping him off to Syria where he was imprisoned for a year and tortured. read more
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
"Our hope is that it will keep the government from rounding up individuals based on religion and ethnicity," she said Tuesday. The men were among more than 170 Arab and Muslim men jailed for immigration-law violations at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. The suit, filed in 2002, claimed that former Attorney General John Ashcroft, prison personnel, FBI supervisors and other...
