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Who Is Ashcroft?

The Washington Post | January 23, 2001 | Copyright

"If John Ashcroft is telling the truth," a Senate Democratic staffer remarked, "George Bush has given us another David Souter."

The half-jesting comment was a reference to former president Bush's appointment of Souter to the Supreme Court, where the man who supposedly had solid New Hampshire conservative credentials has become a mainstay of the liberal bloc.

Ashcroft, the former Missouri senator nominated as attorney general by the new President Bush, is by far the most controversial of his Cabinet appointees. He is a hero of the Christian right, with a long record of opposition to abortion, ...

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