SO MUCH FOR ASHCROFT THE STATES’ RIGHTS ADVOCATE

From the Berkshire Eagle via Lisa Rein’s Radar (a great blog by the way):
Attorney General John Ashcroft has a thing about killing people. He has ordered U.S. attorneys in New York, Connecticut and Vermont to seek the death penalty for defendants in 13 cases where they had not been inclined to pursue it. The 13 cases in the Northeast represent nearly half the 28 cases where the attorney general has exercised his authority to order a death penalty prosecution. A Justice Department spokeswoman says the attorney general wants to make sure the federal death penalty statute is applied “in a consistent and fair manner across the country,” so that there is not “one standard in Georgia and another in Vermont.”
More here: http://www.onlisareinsradar.com/archives/000913.php#000913