{"id":8015,"date":"2005-06-27T18:04:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T01:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/06\/27\/justice-revealed.html"},"modified":"2005-06-27T18:04:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T01:04:57","slug":"justice_reveale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/27\/justice_reveale.html","title":{"rendered":"Justice revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about Alberto Gonzalez, but the new Attorney General has reversed<\/a> at least one of John Ashcroft’s goofier acts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With barely a word about it, workers at the Justice Department Friday removed the blue drapes that have famously covered two scantily clad statues for the past 3 1\/2 years. Spirit of Justice, with her one breast exposed and her arms raised, and the bare-chested male Majesty of Law basked in the late afternoon light of Justice’s ceremonial Great Hall.<\/p>\n

The drapes, installed in 2002 at a cost of $8,000, allowed then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to speak in the Great Hall without fear of a breast showing up behind him in television or newspaper pictures. They also provoked jokes about and criticism of the deeply religious Ashcroft.<\/p>\n

The 12-foot, 6-inch aluminum statues were installed shortly after the building opened in the 1930s.<\/p>\n

Let freedom, er, spring!<\/p>\n

(via BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about Alberto Gonzalez, but the new Attorney General has reversed at least one of John Ashcroft’s goofier acts: With barely a word about it, workers at…<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7034,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/09\/justice_like_li.html","url_meta":{"origin":8015,"position":0},"title":"Justice, like lightning …","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Nov-04 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm sure it's short-sighted of me, but I really don't care who replaces him -- I'm just glad to learn that, finally, at long last, Ashcroft's outta there. 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