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Thus his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A57875-2002Sep23.html\">further appeals against Oregon&#8217;s Assisted Suicide law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reenhead.com\/archives\/2002_09_22_archive.php#82044476\">Reenhead<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps there&#8217;s a lull in prosecuting folks being held in secret, or a shortage of wiretap applications to fill out, but clearly Attorney General Ashcroft has plenty of time on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":158,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/05\/yeesh.html","url_meta":{"origin":2763,"position":0},"title":"Yeesh","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Jun-03 1:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Granted, it's a relatively brief AP blurb, with little to no analysis, but it certainly looks pretty goofy to me: Attorney General John Ashcroft asked Congress Thursday for expanded powers...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime &amp; Punishment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime &amp; Punishment","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/crime-punishment"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":744,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/17\/attorneys_gener.html","url_meta":{"origin":2763,"position":1},"title":"Attorneys General, compare and contrast","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 17-Nov-01 1:23pm","format":false,"excerpt":"John Ashcroft has recently taken the name of Bobby Kennedy in vain, using Kennedy's fight against organized crime in organized labor as vindication of his own actions in the War...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":814,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/12\/now_perhaps_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":2763,"position":2},"title":"Now perhaps the Justice Dept. can turn to something useful","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Nov-01 1:33pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A federal judge has temporarily blocked the DEA from going after doctors in Oregon who prescribe drugs that help terminally ill patients die. 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