{"id":458,"date":"2003-12-17T06:42:40","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T11:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/two-for-ashcroft\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T06:42:40","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T11:42:40","slug":"two-for-ashcroft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/two-for-ashcroft\/","title":{"rendered":"two for ashcroft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>once upon a time (in 2000),  attorney general john ashcroft thought he&#8217;d make a good president.  the federal election commission has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A6339-2003Dec16.html\" class=\"broken_link\">fined<\/a> [washington post,  some demographics may be requested] his campaign for illegally accepting $110, 000.  that the fine is only $37,000 (it helps to have friends decide your penalties) and there&#8217;s definitely some follow-up coming, but what we have here is a disregard for election law that even the republican half of the federal election commission couldn&#8217;t make go away.<\/p>\n<p>strike two is in the form of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A6347-2003Dec16.html\" class=\"broken_link\">statement<\/a> [also the post, same deal] from u.s. district judge gerald rosen, criticizing ashcroft for violating his order to avoid comment on a pending terrorism trial.  ashcroft seems to have decided that talking about convicting terrorists is more important than functional legal proceedings, and in so doing jeopardized the trial (which may have &#8220;let the terrorists go&#8221;!).<\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s more to both stories, but they&#8217;re getting good coverage &#8211; i encourage you to develop your own perspective.  myself, i&#8217;m left with the same request i&#8217;ve for so many years now:<\/p>\n<p>please, someone.  get this man away from my laws.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/usingrights\/\" class=\"broken_link\">i wasn&#8217;t using my civil rights anyway<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>once upon a time (in 2000), attorney general john ashcroft thought he&#8217;d make a good president. the federal election commission has fined [washington post, some demographics may be requested] his campaign for illegally accepting $110, 000. that the fine is only $37,000 (it helps to have friends decide your penalties) and there&#8217;s definitely some follow-up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}