A useful overview of this man and other members of the Bush Cabinet can be found at:
http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/

President Bush and John Ashcroft trample the Bill of Rights Friday, November 16, 2001 By HELEN THOMAS HEARST NEWSPAPERS
Even the corporate press got the heebie-jeebies when Ashcroft became AG:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/46852_helen16.shtml

Republicans get caught with their pants down
Source: http://home.earthlink.net/~zkkatz/page3.html

John Ashcroft Articles
An excellent source of articles on Ashcroft can be found at:
http://www.impeach-bush-now.org/Articles/Ashcroft/

Is John Ashcroft a Bigot?
Attorney General Nominee's Troubling Past
Source: http://uspolitics.about.com/library/weekly/aa010401a.htm

The Ashcroft Report
Source: http://www.thetruthaboutgeorge.com/ashcroft/

The Bad News from Bush: Attorney General Nominee John Ashcroft
It didn't take long for President-Elect Bush to start proving the doomsayers right, far right, with this disastrous nomination. by Deborah Levinson
Source: http://www.rslevinson.com/gaylesissues/features/main/gl001223a.htm

The Fox Guarding the Chicken House
John Ashcroft's record of imposing above rule of law renders him unfit for Attorney General post
Source: http://www.crlp.org/pr_01_0109ash.html

John Ashcroft: Man of the Year By Edwin Meese III
Human rights man of the year 2000? You've gotta be kidding! But just so you know what the right think of this odious example of the male of the species, check out this puff piece by another odious example.
Source: http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/12-23-02/meese.htm

Even Astrologers don't like him
It's all in the stars according to
Source: http://www.stariq.com/pagetemplate/article.asp?PageID=2210

John Ashcroft: an empty suit with the deepest pockets by Preston Peet - January 17, 2001
Source: http://www.disinfo.com/pages/dossier/id755/pg1/

And organised labour doesn't like him either
John Ashcroft: The Payoff By Yves Barbero
Source: http://www.sfbctc.org/ashcroft.htm

George W. Bush, Trent Lott and John Ashcroft: A Shared Philosophy
Their Shared Judicial and Legal Philosophy Would Turn Back the Clock on Half a Century of Civil Rights Principles and Protections
Source: http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=7276

John Ashcroft: Minister of Fear
CBS News doesn't like him either. Apparently it's only Bush and his fellow cronies who do.
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/12/opinion/meyer/main512021.shtml

And the high-tech industry
Bush Nominee Ashcroft Applauded by Tech WorldBy Elizabeth Kiggen NewsFactor Network January 5, 2001
Source: http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/6497.html

And, guess who else likes him? And you know why? Ashcroft's father used to run it.
Ashcroft has close ties to Evangel University (which is run by the Assemblies of God)
Source: http://www.evangel.edu/News/PressReleases/2001/20001222Ashcroft.asp

MISSOURI COPS SAID ASHCROFT AGREED TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY" ON FORFEITURE LAW By Daniel Forbes
Source: http://prorev.com/ashcroft.htm

THE SPIRITUAL COUNTERFEITS PROJECT
Ashcroft is also connected to the many right-wing foundations such as the Heritage Foundation which have ties to the Christian right
Source: http://watch.pair.com/cult-scp2.html (big file)

Night of the living dead
Source: http://archive.salon.com/people/satire/2000/11/07/ashcroft_prayer/

John Ashcroft New Internationalist magazine, July 2002
Source: http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zeroes/John_Ashcroft.html