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29 Mar 2017, 12:18 pm by June Casey
Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder, feared that the gains of the civil rights movement were being undermined by lawlessness—and thus embraced tough-on-crime measures, including longer sentences and aggressive police tactics. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 5:19 am by Immigration Prof
Eric Holder Jr. to serve as outside counsel to guide the state’s legal strategy against Trump’s administration. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 2:30 pm
And he cannot argue that President Obama himself recognized that the debate he generated “will make us stronger,” or that former Attorney General Eric Holder has concluded that he “performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and by the changes that we made. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 3:11 am
Holder Jr., an outspoken liberal voice in the administration who clashed frequently with Republicans who accused him of politicizing the office. [read post]
23 Jun 2016, 1:42 pm by Stuart Taylor
Indeed, then-Attorney General Eric Holder announced in 2012 that “I can’t actually imagine a time in which the need for diversity” — and, he implied, for racial preferences — “will ever cease. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 3:56 am by Bill Otis
Obama has issued a total of 184 commutations and 66 pardons -- more grants, as the White House wasted no time in pointing out, than the last six presidents combined....By the administration's own estimates, [however], as many as 10,000 people could be released under the new criteria, former Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. told The Washington Post this month. [read post]
1 Dec 2015, 12:15 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Holder Jr. announced charges against the officers in May 2014, the officials said. [read post]
8 Jun 2015, 6:37 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Former Attorney General Eric Holder may have had that kind of concern in mind when he said while testifying before Congress in 2013 that “I am concerned that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute them. [read post]
18 May 2015, 11:01 am by Mark Walsh
The scene is reminiscent of when President Obama’s first attorney general, Eric Holder, was recognized by the Court on April 22, 2009. [read post]
4 May 2015, 4:00 am by David Markus
Holder Jr. last year — the government will be forced to spend more to serve the population. [read post]
24 Apr 2015, 6:05 am by Staci Zaretsky
" Now that Loretta Lynch has finally been confirmed as our next attorney general, it's time to step back and take a look at Eric Holder's historic legacy in the position. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 5:35 am by Benjamin Wittes
Holder Jr., was skeptical of the intelligence dossier on Mr. [read post]
28 Mar 2015, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Holder Jr., the courts of the largely black and yet white-run town use arrests and fines against African-Americans to raise revenue and keep the city budget from falling into deficit. [read post]
17 Mar 2015, 5:19 am by SHG
What do either of those things have to do with Loretta Lynch, whom President Obama nominated more than four months ago to succeed Eric Holder Jr. as attorney general of the United States? [read post]
19 Feb 2015, 4:55 am by Immigration Prof
Mike Sacks of the National Law Journal reports that Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch deferred to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. [read post]
17 Feb 2015, 10:52 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Holder Jr. said Tuesday that he would support a national moratorium on lethal injections until the Supreme Court reviews the protocol used in a botched execution in Oklahoma last year. [read post]