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...favor of the unchecked consolidation of executive power. The only way to insure this is to provide an atmosphere of free inquiry. It is, of course, no surprise that there has been so little debate since the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, especially considering Attorney General John Ashcroft??s now infamous dissent-on-dissent: “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists.” This is a gravely troubling remark from the chief law enforcement officer in the country, whose...
...case—Eldred v. Ashcroft??will determine the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA), which prevents the free dissemination of copyrighted material for 20 more years than past legislation had. Under the act, new copyright terms will last the life of a work’s author plus 70 years; renewed copyrights will last 95 years...
...hope that all members of the Harvard Community will join in rejecting Attorney General John Ashcroft??s message to critics of the Bush administration’s domestic anti-terrorism measures delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee last December. “To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this,” Ashcroft said. “Your tactics only aid terrorists—for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America’s enemies, and pause to America?...
...Ashcroft??s new interpretation flies in the face of the Supreme Court’s last decision on the Second Amendment. In the 1939 case United States vs. Miller, the court established that the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms only with some reasonable relationship to the preservation of efficiency of a well-regulated militia. In fulfilling his oath of office, Ashcroft must respect that the law as interpreted by the Supreme Court is “the supreme law of the land.” He should encourage the Justice Department to follow the justices?...
...obstacle to taking these steps goes beyond Ashcroft??s hard-line policy. The vague wording of the Second Amendment leaves open the possibility that a future Supreme Court will reinterpret the Constitution the way Ashcroft does. The amendment has the potential to obstruct future federal gun control legislation that could prevent thousands of needless deaths. Therefore, the American people and the individual states should vocally push for the repeal of the Second Amendment...