John Ashcroft

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  • Is John Ashcroft a geek's best friend?

    The pro-life, pro-Confederacy, pro-guns attorney general nominee is also pro-privacy.
    By Damien Cave January 5, 2001

  • Skeletons in the Cabinet

    Democrats need to work with Bush. But they don't need right-wing dinosaurs like John Ashcroft and Gale Norton.
    By Gary Kamiya January 3, 2001

  • Ashcroft whistles Dixie

    Bush's attorney general nominee is only the latest conservative lawmaker caught pandering to fans of the Confederacy in a tiny but powerful Southern journal.
    By Alicia Montgomery January 3, 2001

  • "A clear and present danger to American women"

    Pro-choice activists criticize the appointment of conservative John Ashcroft as the Bush administration's attorney general.
    By Daryl Lindsey December 22, 2000

  • Behind every dead candidate ...

    There lurks a mysteriously qualified understudy ready to take the stage in the name of duty.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 9, 2000

  • Real dead guy can win, fake dead people can't vote

    In Missouri, the late Mel Carnahan beat the living John Ashcroft by 41,000 votes. Meanwhile, in Florida, a voter is turned away because elections officials list her as deceased.
    By Carina Chocano November 8, 2000

  • Night of the living dead

    The voters of Missouri have resurrected Mel Carnahan. It's enough to drive his opponent to prayer.
    By Carina Chocano November 7, 2000

  • The NRA's big guns

    Meet the 10 biggest obstacles to gun reform legislation.
    By Jake Tapper August 12, 1999

  • Hellfire from the right

    The right wing is newly energized against Clinton.
    By Harry Jaffe August 20, 1998
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