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14 Dec 2010, 3:16 am by firstamendmentblogger
Friday, in a speech the Muslim Advocates, a civil rights advocacy group, Attorney General Eric Holder defended the FBI and Justice Department against allegations that law enforcement agents have engaged in improper surveillance of religious activities and attempted to entrap... [read post]
20 Nov 2008, 2:27 am
JACOB SULLUM: “Barack Obama’s selection of Eric Holder as his attorney general is a very discouraging sign for anyone who hoped the new administration would de-escalate the war on drugs. [read post]
18 Mar 2009, 2:40 pm
Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the Government will provide $1 billion in grants to local law enforcment. [read post]
30 Nov 2011, 4:51 am by Glenn Reynolds
Johnny Isakson told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation Fast and Furious, making him the first U.S. senator to demand that Holder step down now. . . . [read post]
28 Jan 2009, 7:34 pm
Attorney General nominee Eric Holder passed the Senate Judicary Committee by a vote of 17 to 2 with only Republican Senators John Cornyn and Tom Coburn voting no. [read post]
9 Aug 2009, 9:36 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile; JURIST news archive] is expected to name a special prosecutor [Los Angeles Times report] who will be tasked with investigating the alleged abuse of detainees and other terrorism suspects by CIA interrogators, according to a Sunday Los Angeles Times [media website] report. [read post]
26 Mar 2010, 10:38 am by Daniel Richey
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] said Thursday that the US Department of Justice (DOJ) would appeal a judge's order to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee suspected of involvement in the 9/11 [JURIST news archive] World Trade Center attacks. [read post]
17 Jun 2009, 11:44 pm
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] told the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] Wednesday that passing hate crimes legislation is one of his top priorities [prepared statement] for the future, during the first Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] oversight hearing [materials; video] of the Obama administration. [read post]
13 Nov 2009, 4:33 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] on Friday announced [transcript; press release] that the government will pursue federal charges against five men accused of conspiring to commit the 9/11 terrorist attacks [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
9 Dec 2011, 5:24 am by Glenn Reynolds
MICHAEL WALSH: Eric Holder Stonewalls On. “There you have it: One of the most incompetent (at best) and murderous operations ever undertaken in the name of the Justice Department, and all the attorney general can do is say they’ve closed the barn door now that the horses have fled, taking the guns and ammo with them.” [read post]
17 Jun 2011, 6:59 am by Mike Scarcella
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. on Thursday evening forcefully defended the use of civilian courts to prosecute terror suspects, saying in a speech at the American Constitution Society there is no role for politics in prosecutorial decision making. [read post]
21 Nov 2008, 7:44 am
ERIC HOLDER ON GUN CONTROL: As Deputy Attorney General, Holder was a strong supporter of restrictive gun control. [read post]
19 Feb 2009, 6:51 am
As detailed in this CNN article, Attorney General Eric Holder gave his first major speech yesterday, and it was a barn-burner about race relations and race discussions in the United States. [read post]
6 Apr 2009, 1:04 pm
Over at Executive Watch (a truly excellent blog sponsored by the Duke Law Program in Public Law), former Deputy AAG John McGinnis comments on Attorney General Eric Holder's treatment... [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 5:20 am by Joe Palazzolo
Attorney General Eric Holder took an oddly low-key stance as Congress debated (and later passed) a bill curbing the Justice Department’s role in terror cases. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 11:10 am by Rekha Arulanantham
Attorney General Eric Holder just called mass incarceration a moral and economic failure. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 2:07 pm by Jerry Votava
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] signed new guidelines [text] on Thursday for the use of information not related to terrorism activities by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) [official website]. [read post]