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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...   |
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... |
Reason
June 2002
Brian Doherty |
John Ashcroft's Power Grab The saga of a troubled -- and troubling -- 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... |
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
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.... |
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 5, 2001
Daniel Forbes |
New Mexico thumbs its nose at the war on drugs A panel convened by Gov. Gary Johnson calls for the legalization of marijuana and a shift in focus from penal measures to treatment for drug offenders... |
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
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
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 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... |
Reason
July 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Jury Ragging: Medical pot in federal courts When Ed Rosenthal was convicted on federal marijuana cultivation charges last winter, his friends and supporters were not the only ones who were upset. So were the people who convicted him. |
Salon.com
January 9, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
The right stuff President-elect Bush should make reform-minded New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson his drug czar... |
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
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... |
AskMen.com
June 29, 2003
Bernie Alexander |
Worldwide Marijuana Sanctions This article explores the way the justice systems of different countries, such as the Netherlands, Mexico and Thailand, deal with crimes involving marijuana |
Reason
May 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Injustice is Blind Concluding that federal sentencing guidelines violated the Sixth Amendment right to trial by jury because they required sentences to be lengthened based on facts determined by judges, the Supreme Court made the guidelines advisory rather than mandatory. |
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... |
Reason
September 2005
Jacob Sullum |
Data: Pot Bust If you have any lingering doubts about the political establishment's hypocrisy when it comes to drugs, consider this: Marijuana arrests reached an all-time high during the administration of the first acknowledged pot smoker to occupy the White House. |
Reason
July 2009
Nancy Rommelmann |
Anatomy of a Child Pornographer What happens when adults catch teenagers "sexting" photos of each other? The death of common sense. |
Reason
April 2002
Jacob Sullum |
Pot Stops In the United States, it's clearly not true that no one gets arrested for smoking pot anymore. But it looks like that will soon be the case in Britain, home of Europe's harshest drug laws... |
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... |
Reason
February 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Pot Holders Rejoice Drug decriminalization -- in November, Massachusetts voters approved Question 2, a ballot initiative that eliminates criminal penalties for possessing up to an ounce of marijuana |
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... |
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
March 27, 2000
Fiona Morgan |
"Humanitarian cease-fire" in the war on drugs A Maine sheriff wants the Legislature to let authorities dole out confiscated pot to people who need medicinal marijuana. |
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... |
Salon.com
May 15, 2001
Daniel Forbes |
Let them eat chemo Will the Supreme Court's ostrich-like ruling shut down the medical marijuana movement? |
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
June 2003
Jacob Sullum |
Tainted by Drugs The war on pipes and dancing |
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
November 2001
Sam MacDonald |
D.C. Dispatches A case of missing gun data -- and of a missing attorney general... |
Salon.com
August 31, 2000
David Tuller |
Striking down medical marijuana San Francisco's pro-pot district attorney discusses the long-term implications of the Supreme Court's ruling. |
Reason
November 2008
Jacob Sullum |
Follow State Law, Go Directly to Jail The Drug Enforcement Administration has raided more than 60 medical marijuana dispensaries in the last two years. Because the deck is stacked against them, dispensary operators facing federal drug charges typically plead guilty. |
Reason
March 2002
Sam MacDonald |
Gun Control's New Language How anti-terror rhetoric is being used against the Second Amendment... |
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 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... |
InternetNews
January 19, 2005
Roy Mark |
DOJ Scores First Criminal P2P Convictions The U.S. Department of Justice bagged its first-ever criminal convictions for peer-to-peer copyright theft Tuesday when two men arrested in last summer's Operation Digital Gridlock pleaded guilty. |
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... |
Mother Jones
February 2001
Evelyn Nieves |
Half an Ounce of Healing The desperately ill members of a Santa Cruz marijuana club aren't growing pot to get high or make money. They just want to find some relief... |
