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Finally, in the spirit of free discourse and in typical Ashcroft style, the outgoing attorney general suggested that criticizing his policies would be helping terrorists...
...Ashcroft, if nothing else, served as an almost flawless example of what an attorney general should not be. We hope that the incoming attorney general, Alberto Gonzales learns from the mistakes of his predecessor...
...Ashcroft, whose policies run the gamut from the bad to the unforgivable, brought a degree of partisanship to his post, extreme even by the standards of the Bush administration. From his efforts to fight an Oregon law allowing doctors to participate in assisted suicide to his battle against the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes in California; from his work to prevent Ohio voters from being able to file provisional ballots should they not go to the right polling place to his help in denying federal payment to non-biological family members of bisexual, gay, and lesbian victims of Sept...
...racial bias in the implementation of the death penalty and condoned the sentencing disparity between cases involving crack and powder cocaine. Even the conservative talk show host Bill O’Reilly criticized Ashcroft’s opposition to the voluntary desegregation of a low-income school district when Ashcroft was in the Senate...
Nevertheless, we retain hope that the inauguration of Gonzales will mark a shift in the Department of Justice’s attitude toward civil liberties. Gonzales’ record as Texas Supreme Court justice suggests that he will be more moderate than Ashcroft. Given the alternative as attorney general, Gonzales is sure to shine...