The Alliance for Justice is launching an “Ashcroft Resign” campaign. The prime exhibit in AFJ’s anti-Ashcroft “Spy-der-man” cartoon released by AFJ is the Patriot Act, as if the law was Ashcroft’s brainchild and he imposed it upon the American people. Of course the reality is much different: The Patriot Act passed with large bipartisan majorities in both houses (there was only one vote against in the Senate). It is one thing to criticize trhe law (I hardly think it’s perfect) but it is simply dishonest to pretend that it was not bipartisan legislation.