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...I cheered when Ashcroft covered up Lady Justice...

There was a specific reason he did that. As the Attorney General was making a statement, photo-journalists would get a running start as fast as they could, leap as far as they could and slide along the floor to try and get an upward photo at the exact angle showing John Ashcroft with the statue behind him. These childish antics were causing injuries to some of the reporters and he did it to help them.

[LouieFisk]

I woulda just moved the statue or, even easier, the podium.