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Salon.com
January 8, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
John Ashcroft's big mistake He denied Ronnie White a federal judgeship for being soft on crime, when his real grudge was against his pro-choice politics -- and the move cost him his Senate seat...   |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
The case for John Ashcroft Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice says Ashcroft champions civil rights, rules by law and will make a great attorney general... |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Bruce Shapiro |
Can John Ashcroft be stopped? If the Clarence Thomas hearings are any guide, disorganized Democrats could be the Republican nominee's best friends... |
Salon.com
February 1, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Dems fold on Ashcroft And party activists are angry. James Carville says Democrats are giving their "unelected president" a free ride... |
Salon.com
January 18, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Round 2: Ashcroft wins over a Democrat Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein... |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Conservatives flex muscles over Ashcroft In a pugnacious appearance, right-wing groups serve notice to "liberal ideologues" that there's a new sheriff in town. |
Reason
October 2004
John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
Salon.com
January 30, 2001
Joe Conason |
The artful dodger John Ashcroft's nose is growing faster than Pinocchio's during his Senate confirmation hearings. As attorney general, will he be as evasive with the truth? |
Salon.com
January 16, 2001
Joe Conason |
Ashcroft's tough Sell A segregationist group is banking on the hard-on-crime attorney general nominee to drop a murder conspiracy case against one of its own... |
Salon.com
December 22, 2000
Daryl Lindsey |
"A clear and present danger to American women" Pro-choice activists criticize the appointment of conservative John Ashcroft as the Bush administration's attorney general. |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Get Ronnie White, Round 2 In their battle for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft, Republicans are once again attacking the Missouri Supreme Court justice whose federal judgeship Ashcroft scuttled... |
Reason
March 2002
Sam MacDonald |
Gun Control's New Language How anti-terror rhetoric is being used against the Second Amendment... |
Salon.com
January 18, 2001
Adele M. Stan |
License to kill? As a senator, John Ashcroft backed a Missouri bill that might make killing an abortion provider justifiable homicide... |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Ashcroft whistles Dixie Bush's attorney general nominee is only the latest conservative lawmaker caught pandering to fans of the Confederacy in a tiny but powerful Southern journal... |
Salon.com
January 5, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Will Bush Cabinet picks get Borked? Liberal Democrats are gearing up to oppose the president-elect's most conservative choices. Here's a list of the most vulnerable nominees, and their enemies... |
Reason
November 2005
David Weigel |
When Patriots Dissent Government error and bad publicity resulting from use of the PATRIOT Act have reduced the number of Americans who are willing to trade privacy for security. Politicians who vote against measures like PATRIOT will go home to sympathetic voters. |
Salon.com
January 12, 2001
Daniel Forbes |
Ashcroft's nephew got probation after major pot bust Although his arrest for growing 60 plants could have landed him in federal prison, Alex Ashcroft was tried in state court and avoided jail, despite his uncle's crusade for tougher federal drug laws and mandatory prison sentences. |
Salon.com
November 9, 2000
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Behind every dead candidate There lurks a mysteriously qualified understudy ready to take the stage in the name of duty... |
Salon.com
January 8, 2001
David Horowitz |
First blood: The fight over Bush's cabinet The left's efforts to tar and feather Ashcroft and other conservative Bush appointees are as unfair as the smear campaign waged against Clarence Thomas 10 years ago... |
Reason
June 2002
Brian Dohery |
Watching the AG Maybe Attorney General John Ashcroft isn't the greatest threat to individual liberty since the Inquisition. But that doesn't mean he hasn't been alarming so far... |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Eric Boehlert |
Why won't Rush Limbaugh denounce Ronnie White? Maybe he knows White is no more pro-criminal than his own cousin, Missouri Supreme Court Justice Stephen Limbaugh Jr.... |
Reason
November 2001
Sam MacDonald |
D.C. Dispatches A case of missing gun data -- and of a missing attorney general... |
Salon.com
January 17, 2001
Dawn MacKeen |
Could Ashcroft roll back drug policy reform? Bush's choice for attorney general might halt efforts to emphasize treatment over incarceration, opponents fear... |
Reason
October 2002 |
Letters The Amazing Ashcroft... Election Spoils... etc. |
Salon.com
January 3, 2001
Gary Kamiya |
Skeletons in the Cabinet Democrats need to work with Bush. But they don't need right-wing dinosaurs like John Ashcroft and Gale Norton... |
Salon.com
June 17, 2002
Bruce Shapiro |
Restoring the imperial presidency The Bush administration rivals the Nixon White House when it comes to secrecy and unchecked power, with John Ashcroft as our modern-day John Mitchell. |
Salon.com
May 7, 2001
David Horowitz |
Bush's political lynching The president has created the most diverse administration in history. So why does the race-baiting left continue to plant anti-Republican paranoia in black communities? |
Salon.com
January 11, 2001
Anthony York |
Baked Alaska? Fearing a return to the days of James Watt, green activists mobilize to spike Bush's environmental nominees... |
Salon.com
January 22, 2001
David Horowitz |
The Democratic inquisition Democrats set out to tar and feather Bush's Cabinet nominees as racists, overlooking their own racial peccadilloes... |
Salon.com
November 8, 2000
Carina Chocano |
Real dead guy can win, fake dead people can't vote In Missouri, the late Mel Carnahan beat the living John Ashcroft by 41,000 votes. Meanwhile, in Florida, a voter is turned away because elections officials list her as deceased... |
PC World
October 25, 2001
Cara Garretson |
Net Surfing, E-Mail Targets of New Antiterror Law Court orders to be used to track and intercept online communications... |
Salon.com
January 2, 2001
Alicia Montgomery |
Bush taps a Democrat Clinton appointee Norm Mineta is selected to head the Department of Transportation, opponents gear up to battle the Bush agenda and Democrats target John Ashcroft... |
Reason
August 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Second Thoughts John Ashcroft's Second Amendment position, even if adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court, is not likely to have practical consequences anytime soon. |
PC World
December 2003
Bill Wallace |
The Patriot Act Reconsidered Next round of antiterrorist legislation seeks to balance privacy and security. |
Salon.com
May 15, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Playing both sides President Bush unveils a new gun program carefully crafted to appease both the NRA and gun control advocates... |
InternetNews
June 21, 2010 |
Ashcroft: Cybercrime Is Everyone's Problem The former Attorney General compares cybercrime to the war on terror and calls on public, private sector to work together to safeguard data. |
PC World
October 16, 2002
Michelle Madigan |
ACLU Campaign Challenges Patriot Act Privacy unnecessarily threatened under broad surveillance powers, civil liberties group charges. |
Salon.com
May 11, 2001
Damien Cave |
The porn crusaders How a small group of media moralists busted Yahoo -- after years of failing to make a dent anywhere else... |
BusinessWeek
June 20, 2005
Lorraine Woellert |
The Left's Supreme Effort A coalition of liberal groups is gearing to form a united front in the looming fight to keep hard-line conservatives off the high court. |
Salon.com
April 14, 2001
Kerry Lauerman |
Killing as "closure" John Ashcroft says the closed-circuit TV broadcast of Timothy McVeigh's execution will help victims heal. But will what they see look too brutal -- or not brutal enough? |
Salon.com
July 17, 2002
Eric Weinberger |
Rotten kid Why do the John Ashcrofts burn with hatred for John Walker Lindh? He's their renegade son whose every thought and action stands as an unforgivable personal rebuke. |
Salon.com
May 12, 2001
Alicia Montgomery & Fiona Morgan |
Botched! "If the government can't get it right in this case, how can we rely on it to get it right in any case?" Experts react to the FBI blunder... |
InternetNews
August 26, 2004
Roy Mark |
DoJ Nabs 103 in Online Crime Sweep Ashcroft says summer-long campaign known as Operation Web Snare reveals increasing internationalization of online crime. |
InternetNews
August 25, 2004
Roy Mark |
DOJ Raids Private P2P Operation Authorities raided five residences and and an Internet service provider Wednesday morning in the first federal criminal enforcement action against private peer-to-peer networks. |
