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12 Jul 2009, 3:58 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] is still considering appointing a prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture during the Bush administration, Newsweek reported [text] Saturday. [read post]
3 Feb 2009, 8:52 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] Tuesday expressed his commitment to restoring a tradition of fairness and political neutrality [prepared remarks] to the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website]. [read post]
22 Feb 2014, 1:11 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
” The post Joint Statement by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Attorney General Eric Holder on the Declassification of Additional Documents Section 501 of FISA appeared first on beSpacific. [read post]
1 Apr 2014, 5:26 am by Bill Otis
 This comes on the heels of other instances in which Attorney General Holder has been less than rigorous in enforcing federal law  --  or, to be less diplomatic, has simply declared that it will be his policy not to enforce it in hopes that liberals will enact the dumbing-down of drug sentencing he prefers.One such episode occurred  last August, when Mr. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 8:49 am by Mike Scarcella
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. today on Capitol Hill said he wants to prevent the heated debate about the botched gun trafficking investigation "Operation Fast and Furious" from turning into a political sideshow. [read post]
14 Dec 2011, 10:47 am by Jaclyn Belczyk
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] pledged Tuesday to enforce civil rights [speech] during next year's elections. [read post]
26 Sep 2014, 10:14 am by Kent Scheidegger
Holder's replacement when outgoing lawmakers would still be able to vote on the next attorney general. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 11:45 am
Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. forcefully broke from the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies Thursday, declaring that waterboarding is torture and pledging to prosecute some Guantanamo Bay detainees in U.S. courts.It was the latest signal that President-elect Barack Obama will chart a new course in combating terrorism. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 8:32 am by Suzanne Ito
If the FISA Amendments Act is as clearly constitutional as Attorney General Holder believes it to be, why not let the courts review it? [read post]
4 Jun 2014, 8:32 am by Nicholas Tomsho
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] announced [text] Tuesday that the Department of Justice [official website] will revive a formerly defunct task force to combat domestic terrorism. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 4:18 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] told reporters Tuesday that the Obama administration may miss its January deadline for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 10:32 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] instructed federal prosecutors on Thursday to use DNA evidence as much as possible [press release], in a reversal of Bush administration policy. [read post]
5 Sep 2014, 7:23 am by Julie Deisher
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] announced Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] will open an investigation [speech text] to determine whether Ferguson Police officials have systematically violated the US Constitution or federal law. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 6:37 am by Saheli Chakrabarty
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] swore under oath Tuesday that the Obama administration will not transfer Guantanamo Bay [JURIST backgrounder] prisoners to the Thomson prison in Illinois, despite earlier plans [JURIST report]. [read post]
14 Aug 2012, 8:54 am by Dan Taglioli
[JURIST] A US House of Representatives [official website] committee filed a lawsuit [complaint, PDF] on Monday seeking to compel Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] to produce subpoenaed documents relating to a failed arms-tracking operation. [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 9:41 am by Alex Kreit
From the Huffington Post today, Attorney General Eric Holder makes some noteworthy commenst on marijuana legalization. [read post]
18 Feb 2015, 11:44 am by Jacqueline Jones
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] on Tuesday voiced his support [remarks] for a moratorium on the death penalty pending a decision by the Supreme Court on the Oklahoma death penalty case. [read post]
18 Mar 2011, 5:25 am
On March 15, 2011, US Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius and Inspector General Daniel Levinson visited Detroit to participate in the fifth regional health care fraud prevention summit. [read post]
27 Feb 2009, 1:38 am
Yesterday, they got a new high from Attorney General Eric Holder's statements on the issue:U.S. [read post]