Lest we forget…

...Jeralyn looks at the Ashcroft era.

From his push on the Patriot Act, to his initiating warrantless monitoring of attorney-client conversations, to his many failed terrorism cases, his connection to Abu Ghraib, his insistence on prosecuting medical marijuana cases even in states that had legalized it, his attempt to keep tabs on federal judges, his belief that the undocumented could be held indefinitely and most spectacularly, his crusade to increase the use of the death penalty in federal cases, over the objections of his own prosectors and a federal judge, he should not be re-evaluated for his one moment of lucidity.

He was the worst Attorney General ever.

Yes, he was.

He may not be anymore. After all, Gonzales has yet to display even that one moment of lucidity (it would, no doubt, require his resignation).

But yes, he was, and may yet be.