House Judiciary Questions Ashcroft

CNSNews ^ | April 3,2003 | Jeff Johnson

[ninenot]

Civil Liberties BUMP!!! Sensenbrenner never DID like this garbage. Good to see him on the trail...

[ninenot]

Ping

[RJCogburn]

Thanks for the ping. Clearly frightening in some ways....especially if evil people get the power.

[cynicom]

Ashcroft and Bush we can trust, however the groundwork has been laid for such people as the Clintons. Americans will rue the day they sat complacently by as Ashcroft shredded the Constitution.

[Sir Gawain]

Asscroft is a dork chasing after Tommy Chong.

[Sir Gawain]

[Zon]

Voting for the lesser of evils always begets evil. That said, thank goodness Bush is President and not Gore. How can so many people thinking they're right be so wrong? Here's an example...

"Ashcroft and Bush we can trust... as Ashcroft shredded the Constitution."

[Ymani Cricket]

Knee-jerk legislation is what it was.

BTTT

[thoughtomator]

Ashcroft is a travesty as AG. He is already a major liability. He must go before the 2004 election campaign begins in earnest.

[Ymani Cricket]

Extra Liberty Bump

[Ymani Cricket]

thoughtomator signed up 1998-10-04.

Hey your Freeper birthday is right by mine...Two days my senior :)

[Hazzardgate]

In what way is he a liability?

[cynicom]

I am a Conservative American. Allegiance to no party. Been voting for 50 years and in that time only once voted "for" a candidate and did so with full confidence, that was Reagan.

[Zon]

Doesn't change this gem you wrote...

"Ashcroft and Bush we can trust... as Ashcroft shredded the Constitution."

[Orangedog]

Let's all just sit back and think for a minute how she WILL use the "Patriot" Act when she scams her way back into the White House.

And don't say "It's not going to happen". Voters don't decide presidential elections anymore...the courts do. And we can't count on having the same Supreme Court in 2004 and 2008.

[thoughtomator]

He is a liability because of the secret arrests and detentions in violation of the 4th Amendment, as well as his unreasonable and undiscriminating application of immigration laws (which is costing the gov't huge amounts of money btw).

For example, he has placed requirements on the Board of Immigration Appeals that essentially eviscerates the purpose of that Board; the result is that Circuit Courts are now flooded with cases previously handled by the BIA. When the BIA rubber-stamps an unreasonable Immigration Judge decision (which it is being forced to do now by Ashcroft), not only does it drive up the cost of the government lawyers and clog the courts, but it also forces the government to often pay the costs of litigation to the petitioners in these cases. It's a huge waste of time and resources, and makes a lot of people very justifiably angry (and incidentally sends more than a few asylum applicants back to their nations of origin where they are tortured and killed). I'm as aware of the necessities of defending the nation from terrorism as anyone, and even in this context I find the actions of the A.G. to be outrageous.

For a conservative trying to convince a nonpolitical person of the virtues of voting R, the AG's actions in this and other arenas validate the stereotype of conservatives as hateful, provincial, and cruel.

[mrsmith]

The questions are surprisingly intelligent!

Here's a copy of the letter: house.gov

[cynicom]

I took a lot of heat here on FR by saying the Hag would win as senator of NY. All the "experts" here allowed that I was stupid etc etc. Stupid perhaps but I saw her campaign stops in republican upstate NY, it was a given that she would win easily.

[ninenot]

Too bad you don't live in Sensenbrenner's district. I've watched his votes (through Human Events) for years--he's only been wrong on one that I recall.

He opposed the Patriot Act (as did Feingold, ultra-lib Dem Senator from Wi.) but got taken to the woodshed by Bush and Ashcroft. Sensen caved, which is too bad.

Now we have to look forward to an HRC interpretation of this law--retroactively will bless Waco, I suppose...