The 2003 leak of Valerie Plame's identity as a covert operative in the CIA consumed the administration for months and led to a rift between Bush and then-Vice President Cheney during their second ...
The remarkable thing about President George W. Bush wasn’t that he was a horrible chief executive; it’s that he was horrible in so many ways.
George W. Bush is trending on the Internet for a surprising reason. A CNN/ORC Poll that recently hit the Web yielded some good news for the embattled former president: For the first time since the ...
George W. Bush during his presidency of 8 years from 2001 to 2009 signed 56 legislations. Major ones of these included USA PATRIOT Act, Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, Job Creation and Worker Assistance Act of 2002, United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act, Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing ...
The first is A. Mitchell Palmer, who served as Attorney General under Woodrow Wilson ...
Critics of the Patriot Act and the post-September 11th policies of the Bush Administration argue this was a massive privacy violation. With his reputation undermined, Ashcroft decided to leave his position after Bush won a second term in 2004.
He spent 19 months in prison and lost his law license for his illegal and unethical actions. Nearly two decades later, President George H. W. Bush appointed William Barr as Attorney General and Barr served from November 1991 to January 1993.
In the aftermath of the Iran Contra Affair, Weinberger faced indictment and trial on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. After the Presidential Election of 2000, President George W. Bush selected former Senator John Ashcroft of Missouri as his first Attorney General, serving from February 2001 to February 2005.
Earlier this summer, the House of Representatives held Attorney General William Barr in contempt for his refusal to comply with a subpoena on the 2020 census. Barr is hardly the first AG who has used his appointment as Attorney General to promote lawlessness and injustice. In fact, in the past 100 years, Attorneys General have violated the Bill ...
Gonzales’s tenure as Attorney General was highly controversial as he endorsed warrantless surveillance of US citizens and gave legal authorization to “enhanced interrogation techniques,” later, generally acknowledged as torture.
For much of the period from October 1919 to March 1921, Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke, giving Palmer license to abuse his position. Palmer initiated the “Palmer Raids”, also known as the “Red Scare”, in which thousands of people suspected to be Socialists or Communists were rounded up and jailed.
George W. Bush: A Controversial President. The most controversial president in the modern era was George Walker Bush, who served as the country's 43rd president, presiding over the United States during its grimmest days since the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
troops to Afghanistan to combat terrorism, and attacked Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq because of inaccurate intelligence that claimed the Muslim leader was developing weapons of mass destruction. Both decisions hurt his presidency greatly.
President Bush's greatest contribution President Bush to civil liberties may simply have been his failure to live up to widely held dismal expectations. During the 2004 campaign, then Senator Hillary Clinton warned us that re-electing Bush would radically transform our country, leaving us with what she called "an America we won't recognize." While President Bush's civil liberties record is mixed, it is only incrementally worse than that of his predecessor, President Clinton. Presidential scholars generally recognize, as well, that the 2001 World Trade Center attacks changed American sentiment substantially away from civil liberties and toward protective measures that weakened them. In short, it could have been worse.
During his first State of the Union address in early 2001, President Bush vowed to end racial profiling. In 2003, he acted on his promise by issuing an order to 70 federal law enforcement agencies calling for an end to most forms of racial and ethnic profiling.
The top four positions in the executive branch are those of the president, the vice-president, the secretary of state, and the attorney general. Until President Bush came to power, none of these four offices had ever been occupied by a person of color.
The dominantly conservative House of Representatives favored mass deportation of illegal immigrants, for example, while many Senators favored the creation of path that would lead many illegal immigrants to citizenship. Bush favored the latter approach.
New London (2005) gave the government power to seize private property for commercial use if the local government deemed the commercial use helpful to the community as a whole, giving the government more power to seize private property than it had before.
Declared the First Federal Ban on Racial Profiling. George W. Bush gre ets congress members after he delivered his first speech before a joint session of the 107th Congress on Capitol Hill. Mark Wilson / Getty Images.
Although President Bush's rhetoric has not always been clearly favorable to LGBT Americans, he didn't change federal policies in ways that could detrimentally affect them. On the contrary, in 2006 he signed an historic bill that gave non-spousal couples the same federal pension standards as married couples.
President Bush's greatest contribution President Bush to civil liberties may simply have been his failure to live up to widely held dismal expectations. During the 2004 campaign, then Senator Hillary Clinton warned us that re-electing Bush would radically transform our country, leaving us with what she called "an America we won't recognize." While President Bush's civil liberties record is mixed, it is only incrementally worse than that of his predecessor, President Clinton. Presidential scholars generally recognize, as well, that the 2001 World Trade Center attacks changed American sentiment substantially away from civil liberties and toward protective measures that weakened them. In short, it could have been worse.
During his first State of the Union address in early 2001, President Bush vowed to end racial profiling. In 2003, he acted on his promise by issuing an order to 70 federal law enforcement agencies calling for an end to most forms of racial and ethnic profiling.
The top four positions in the executive branch are those of the president, the vice-president, the secretary of state, and the attorney general. Until President Bush came to power, none of these four offices had ever been occupied by a person of color.
The dominantly conservative House of Representatives favored mass deportation of illegal immigrants, for example, while many Senators favored the creation of path that would lead many illegal immigrants to citizenship. Bush favored the latter approach.
New London (2005) gave the government power to seize private property for commercial use if the local government deemed the commercial use helpful to the community as a whole, giving the government more power to seize private property than it had before.
Declared the First Federal Ban on Racial Profiling. George W. Bush gre ets congress members after he delivered his first speech before a joint session of the 107th Congress on Capitol Hill. Mark Wilson / Getty Images.
Although President Bush's rhetoric has not always been clearly favorable to LGBT Americans, he didn't change federal policies in ways that could detrimentally affect them. On the contrary, in 2006 he signed an historic bill that gave non-spousal couples the same federal pension standards as married couples.