Law professors from Georgetown University join Ray Suarez for a look back at John Ashcroft's tenure as attorney general. Attorney General Ashcroft was the first member of the Bush Cabinet to step ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A Washington showdown loomed. For weeks, a small number of lawmakers and ...

WASHINGTON – Attorney General John Ashcroft announced Tuesday his department continues to detain 603 people on immigration violations or other federal charges in the terrorism investigation ...

Of all the Bible stories John Ashcroft knows by heart, none mirrors his own life like the Old Testament melodrama of Daniel. As a Hebrew captive exiled to Babylon, Daniel worked his way into the ...

Also see: Interviews: "The Softer Side of Ashcroft" (March 12, 2004) Jeffrey Rosen argues that it is not social conservatism but a quest for popular approval that drives John Ashcroft's public life.

Elaine Jones, from a legal point of view looking at John Ashcroft as potential for the being the nation's top lawyer, what is wrong or right with this nomination? You know, Gwen, I wish I did not ...

2003-12-31 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- Attorney General John Ashcroft disqualified himself Tuesday from any involvement in the investigation into whether Bush administration officials illegally ...

OOOH, are they mad at John Ashcroft. The media chorus sang a threnody of denunciation after the attorney general’s appearance before the House Judiciary Committee last week. From the left ...

Thank you for that sobering and incisive assessment of John Ashcroft’s nomination for attorney general (“The Conscience of a Pentecostal,” by Martin E. Marty, Opinion, Jan. 28). I too am an ...

After a man is smeared the way John Ashcroft was during his Senate confirmation hearings last year, the reflexive reaction is to defend him. No one, after all, could be quite the demon that ...