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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Doherty |
John Ashcroft's Power Grab The saga of a troubled -- and troubling -- attorney general... |
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 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 10, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Holding court Bush unveils the beginning of his legacy -- the people he wants to shape the law. But Democrats are plotting to keep a say in the nominations... |
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 March 2002 Sam MacDonald |
Gun Control's New Language How anti-terror rhetoric is being used against the Second Amendment... |
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 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 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 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 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... |
Salon.com June 29, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Biden his time The new Senate Foreign Relations chairman tries to return the committee to the spotlight as he weighs a White House run... |
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... |
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 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 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... |
ifeminists August 26, 2008 Carey Roberts |
Senator Biden's VAWA Cover-Up Over the last 15 years, Biden has repeatedly bragged to his friends and colleagues, "What I'm most proud of in my entire career is the Violence Against Women Act." |
Salon.com June 15, 2001 Jake Tapper |
The race to face Bush Democratic presidential wannabes waste no time using their new Senate powers to position themselves for 2004... |
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... |
Reason October 2004 John Berlau |
John Kerry's Dark Record on Civil Liberties The Democratic candidate is no friend to the Bill of Rights. |
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 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 20, 2001 Anthony York |
"A single nation of justice and opportunity" In a 14-minute political sermon, George W. Bush promises to unite a divided country after the bitterly contested election... |
Reason November 2001 Sam MacDonald |
D.C. Dispatches A case of missing gun data -- and of a missing attorney general... |
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? |
Reason Aug/Sep 2001 Charles Oliver |
Southern Nationalism Exploring the roots of the Civil War... |
Reason July 2003 Sara Rimensnyder |
Rave On How a bad bill becomes a law: The RAVE Act, now officially known as the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, passed both the House and Senate in April without ever having gone through committee and without floor debate. |
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. |
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. |
Reason October 2002 |
Letters The Amazing Ashcroft... Election Spoils... etc. |
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... |