John David Ashcroft ( born May 9, 1942 ) is an American politician who served as the 79th U. S. Attorney General ( 2001-05 ), in the George W. Bush Administration.

In 1974, Ashcroft was narrowly defeated for election to that post by Jackson County County Executive George W. Lehr, who argued that Ashcroft, who is not an accountant, was not qualified to be the State Auditor.

* On March 30, 2000, with Senator Russ Feingold, Ashcroft convened the only Senate hearing on racial profiling, where he stated that racial profiling is unconstitutional and said that he supported the concept of legislation requiring that statistics be kept of police actions.

According to government filings, Oracle is one of the Ashcroft Group ’ s five clients that seek his help in selling data or software with security applications.

Ashcroft was subsequently hired by the National Association of Broadcasters, which is strongly opposed to the merger.

In 2003 John Gilmore sued United Airlines, Southwest Airlines and U. S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, arguing that requiring passengers to show identification before boarding domestic flights is tantamount to an internal passport, and is unconstitutional.

In a press briefing, John Ashcroft states that the FBI has sealed the building is working with the CDC to determine if this is a criminal or terrorist act.

John Gilmore has sued two US Attorneys General ( Ashcroft and Gonzales ), arguing that the requirement to present identification documents before boarding a plane is unconstitutional.

Lord Ashcroft Building is the seat of the Lord Ashcroft International Business School.

Arguments have been advanced by Neil Ashcroft and others that there is a melting point maximum in compressed hydrogen, but also that there may be a range of densities ( at pressures around ) where hydrogen may be a liquid metal, even at low temperatures.

The music video for " Bitter Sweet Symphony ", which received heavy rotation on MTV, focuses on Ashcroft lip-synching the song while walking down a busy London pavement, oblivious to what is going on around and refusing to change his stride or direction throughout.

On 7 July 2010 Ashcroft confirmed that the band " is over for good ", though some weeks later did not rule out another Verve reunion.

* Also notably Vernon Kay is a big fan of The Verve, and conducted his last interview on T4 with Richard Ashcroft.

* The Centre Point building is visible in the beginning of the music video for " Check the Meaning " by Richard Ashcroft.

He is also a regular on the digital radio sports show, " TalkSPORT " Other notable friends of his are, Mani of The Stone Roses, Richard Ashcroft of The Verve – for whom he dedicated a song, " Cast No Shadow ", the band members of the Chemical Brothers ,-Sex Pistols members John Lydon and Steve Jones the members of the rock band Kasabian, Andy Nicholson, boxer Ricky Hatton, Paul McCartney, Liverpool F. C footballer Jamie Carragher, Chris Martin, Jonny Buckland, Johnny Marr, Paul Weller, Ian Brown, John Squire, Lee Mavers, Jack Dee, Craig Cash, Kelly Jones and Johnny Depp ( who played slide guitar on the Oasis song Fade In-Out ).

Richard Paul Ashcroft ( born 11 September 1971 in Billinge, Wigan ) is an English musician and singer-songwriter.

Ashcroft is contractually obligated to record another album for Parlophone.

Ashcroft is married to Kate Radley, a former member of Spiritualized.

Ashcroft is a Manchester United fan.

is dedicated to him, and it is believed that Ashcroft dedicated the title track of A Northern Soul to Gallagher as a response.

He has also donated his services to Cambridge University for 16 years and has helped out on occasion at the University of Bedfordshire where he is currently a Visiting Professor, Essex University where he is a Fellow in Entrepreneurship Studies and at Bath, Cranfield, Ashcroft, and Anglia Universities, all unpaid posts.

This medal is currently in the Lord Ashcroft V. C.

By the time the band had split, Ashcroft had already been working on solo material accompanied by, among others, Salisbury and Cole.

In 1999, he began working with Richard Ashcroft, of The Verve, during the recording sessions of Ashcroft's debut solo album, Alone With Everybody.

journalist Peter Oborne credited Lord Ashcroft, owner of both the ConservativeHome and PoliticsHome website with " stopping the Coalition working " by moving policy on Europe, welfare, education, taxation to the right.

Although the film is not intended to be autobiographical, he was inspired to write it by his teen experience working one summer for Peggy Ashcroft.

But the true saga of Walachin would begin in 1907 when Charles Barnes, an American entrepreneur, was working as a land surveyor at Ashcroft and visited Pennie's ranch and admired his orchard.

Along with John Ashcroft and Alan Krueger, he endorsed reform of payroll taxes to eliminate double taxation.

During his tenure there, Ashcroft shared an office with future U. S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.

In 1980, Ashcroft was re-elected with 64. 5 percent of the vote and winning 96 of Missouri's 114 counties.

The day after the ruling, Ashcroft became critically ill with acute pancreatitis.

In May 2006, based on conversations with members of Congress, key aides and lobbyists, The Hill magazine listed Ashcroft as one of top 50 " hired guns " that K Street had to offer.

Sometime in the 1970s, Ashcroft recorded a gospel record entitled TRUTH: Volume One, Edition One with Missouri legislator Max Bacon, a Democrat.

In January 2002, the partially nude female statue of the Spirit of Justice, which stands in the Great Hall of the Justice Department, where Ashcroft held press conferences, was covered with blue curtains, along with its male counterpart, the Majesty of Law.

Some speculated that Ashcroft felt reporters were photographing him with the female statue in the background to make fun of his church's opposition to pornography.

Along with sixteen other distinguished economists he opposed the Copyright Term Extension Act and filed an amicus brief in Eldred v. Ashcroft.

On June 6, 2002, Attorney General Ashcroft proposed regulations that would create a special registration program that required males aged 16 to 64 who were citizens of designated foreign nations resident in the U. S. to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service ( INS ), have their identity verified, and be interviewed, photographed and fingerprinted.

On October 23, 2001, John Ashcroft claimed that Jarrah had shared a Hamburg apartment with Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, though German authorities that same day told the Los Angeles Times that they had no evidence that any of Jarrah ’ s three apartments in Hamburg had been connected with the other hijackers.

Iachimo was played by Geoffrey Keen, whose father Malcolm had played Jachimo with Ashcroft at the Old Vic in 1932.

Supporting the law were the U. S. government, represented by the Attorney General in an ex officio capacity ( originally Janet Reno, later replaced by John Ashcroft ), along with a set of amici including the Motion Picture Association of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, ASCAP and Broadcast Music Incorporated.

As she matured, she demonstrated a strong affinity for the plays of Henrik Ibsen, as Irene in When We Dead Awaken ( Cambridge, 1968 ), as Mrs. Alving in Ghosts ( Edinburgh, 1972 ), Aase in Peer Gynt ( BBC, 1972 ) and as Gunhild in John Gabriel Borkman ( Old Vic, 1975 ), in which she appeared with Ralph Richardson and Peggy Ashcroft.

The Ashcroft Memo with its " sound legal basis " standard encouraged ( or at least seemed to support ) greater use of FOIA exemptions by federal agency personnel.

Fronted by singer Richard Ashcroft, the band caused a buzz in early 1991 for its ability to captivate audiences with its musical textures and avant-garde sensibilities.

The group were signed by Hut Records in 1991 and their first studio releases in 1992, " All In The Mind ", " She's a Superstar ", and " Gravity Grave " ( along with the December 1992 Verve ) saw the band become a critical success, making an impression with freeform guitar work by McCabe and unpredictable vocals by Ashcroft.

Ashcroft reunited with Jones and Salisbury just a few weeks after the breakup, but McCabe did not rejoin them.

The band then chose Simon Tong, a school friend credited with originally teaching Ashcroft and Jones to play guitar.