Nov 04, 2014 · President Bush announced Mr. Ashcroft as his pick for attorney general on December 22, 2000, and he became the 79th attorney general. His resignation took effect on …
Calling him "a man of great integrity, a man of great judgment and a man who knows the law," President George W. Bush announced his decision to nominate John Ashcroft to serve as …
Nov 11, 2004 · Attorney General Ashcroft was the first member of the Bush Cabinet to step down after the president won a second term. He submitted his letter on Election Day resigning.
Oct 04, 2016 · Ashcroft lost his bid for reelection in 2000 but was chosen by President George W. Bush to serve as attorney general. John Ashcroft announced his resignation after the 2004 …
Subsequently, he was nominated by George W. Bush as U.S. attorney general. Ashcroft faced intense questioning in the Senate, particularly on his attitudes toward African Americans and …
Alberto Gonzales | |
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Official portrait, 2005 | |
80th United States Attorney General | |
In office February 3, 2005 – September 17, 2007 | |
President | George W. Bush |
What John Ashcroft did was try to get into place tools and procedures whereby we can discern the terrorist plots and then act to interdict those plots and disrupt them before they actually foment into actual attacks on the American homeland. That is a hallmark of his leadership, this transformation.
Not one person who was locked up as a foreign national in preventive detention by John Ashcroft over 5,000, not one of them was convicted of a terrorist crime. The only convictions that Viet pointed to are convictions of citizens, were people who were not subjected to preventive detention.
John Ashcroft announced right after 9/11 that he was going to use every law within his power, including immigration law , to lock up suspected terrorists, keep them off the streets and prevent the next terrorist attack from occurring.
Attorney General Ashcroft was the first member of the Bush Cabinet to step down after the president won a second term. He submitted his letter on Election Day resigning. A former senator from Missouri, Ashcroft was at the center of a fierce civil liberties debate over anti-terrorism policies initiated by the Bush administration in the wake ...
Yes, I think that after 9/11, the charge of the Department of Justice was very simple. And it was given by the president to the attorney general at the National Security Council meeting on 9/11. He said very simply, "John, you make sure this does not happen again.".
DAVID COLE: I think John Ashcroft essentially repeated the Palmer raids. I think you can call them the Ashcroft raids. But Attorney General Palmer was lambasted for rounding up 5,000 foreign nationals in the wake of a series of terrorist bombings in 1919.
DAVID COLE: Look, first of all, the inspector general found massive abuses. He found that people were locked up on no charges at all; that people were held where there was no evidence that they were dangerous; that people were locked up for long periods of time after their cases were resolved; that people were beaten.
After serving as state auditor (1973–75), Ashcroft in 1976 was elected to the first of two terms as state attorney general, a post in which he earned much attention for his enforcement of a state law that restricted abortions. In 1984 Ashcroft was elected governor of Missouri, and he was reelected in 1988.
Republican Party. ... (Show more) Full Article. John Ashcroft, in full John David Ashcroft, (born May 9, 1942, Chicago, Ill., U.S.), U.S. politician and lawyer, who served as attorney general of the United States (2001–05). He was known for his conservative policies and his support of the USA Patriot Act.
Political Affiliation: Republican Party. ... (Show more) Full Article. John Ashcroft, in full John David Ashcroft, (born May 9, 1942, Chicago, Ill., U.S.), U.S. politician and lawyer, who served as attorney general of the United States (2001–05). He was known for his conservative policies and his support of the USA Patriot Act.
law, but he was confirmed by a vote of 58 to 42.
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