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? novemûer 19. 2004 • J U S t O U t 2 i* j aun new s 2005. T he law would provide registered domestic partners with basic protections and responsibilities including com munal property, parenting rights and obligations, mutual responsibility for debt and the right to claim a partners body after death. Now Gay365.com reports that the Campaign for Califor nia Families, a conservative Christian legal activist group, has announced a bid to uaseat McMaster on the grounds that his ruling implies marriage by another name. 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Its executive director at the time, Rich Tafel, said: “T he key for us was what he kept saying during the hearings, T h is will not be John Ashcroft’s attorney generalship, this will be President Bush’s attorney general’ and reflect the adminis tration’s position.... T h e most im portant thing for us was that his statem ents were looking forward, not looking backward.” Eight Democrats joined all of the Republicans in the Senate in confirming Ashcroft 58-42. T he position of attorney gen eral traditionally is thought sus pect by civil libertarians. T h e p o st-9/11 passage of the U SA Patriot A ct, and A shcroft’s tactics in im plem enting it, provided ample fodder for such criticism from across a broad swath of the political spectrum. Ashcroft won grudging praise for his in d ictm ent of Darrell David Rice for the brutal murder of two lesbian hikers in Virginia’s S hen an d o ah N atio n al Park in 1996. T h e victim s, Julianne M. 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