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16 May 2017, 11:30 am
Yesterday, citing unnamed officials, the Washington Post broke the news that President Trump disclosed highly classified intelligence to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador. [read post]
15 May 2017, 7:56 pm
For example, former Attorney General Eric Holder instructed federal prosecutors to consider the unique facts and circumstances of a particular case, and to exercise discretion in charging narcotics offenses. [read post]
14 May 2017, 2:43 pm
The company is working with advisors to secure support for a restructuring agreement that will include a backstop commitment from certain note holders and a debt-for-equity swap. [read post]
13 May 2017, 4:42 am
In the interim, Attorney General Eric Holder issued a memo providing for greater exercise of prosecutorial discretion. [read post]
12 May 2017, 1:30 pm
Yesterday Sessions issued a new policy reversing the work done by former Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. to reduce long mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses. [read post]
12 May 2017, 6:41 am
This prevents inattentive, inexperienced or irresolute AUSA's from doing their own thing (or being bullrushed by an aggressive or smooth-talking defense lawyer).On its face, this policy is not that much of a change from the one Eric Holder adopted, but there is an important change in emphasis and purpose. [read post]
9 May 2017, 4:46 pm
” The list counts officials who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations and includes Judge Laurence Silberman, Jamie Gorelick (now the personal lawyer to Ivanka Trump), Larry Thompson, Michael Mukasey, Alberto Gonzalez, Eric Holder, and Donald Ayer. [read post]
9 May 2017, 1:58 pm
The change, if adopted, would overturn a memo by then-Attorney General Eric H. [read post]
8 May 2017, 7:12 am
He also called for the resignation of current Penn State president Eric Barron and two members of the board of trustees. [read post]
5 May 2017, 6:35 am
Eric Greitens was fined $1,000 by the Missouri Ethics Commission for violating the state’s campaign finance law. [read post]
3 May 2017, 5:02 am
A few weeks ago, for instance, a federal district court judge (Eric Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York) wrote an opinion rejecting a Social Security ligitant’s request to get an early opinion taken down from the court’s site (see also Eric Goldman’s post on this case): In February 2014, plaintiff Tamara Nelson filed a complaint, seeking review of the final decision of the Commissioner of Social Security (“Commissioner”) finding that her… [read post]
28 Apr 2017, 1:14 pm
They have received significant support from a variety of stakeholders, including former Attorney General Eric Holder. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 1:41 pm
-- the prison population (that is, the number of criminals previously kept off the streets) has been declining, in large part because of the success of programs like the one the ACLU is pushing in this press release.For those who think years of shrinking the prison population has nothing to do with resurgent crime, I would simply note that, according to Eric Holder's DOJ, the overall recidivism rate is over three-quarters, and the recidivism rate for those… [read post]
13 Apr 2017, 10:54 am
After refusing to turn over information on the botched program to a congressional investigation, Obama Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 6:07 am
The filibuster lasted 12 hours and 52 minutes, until Paul received a letter from then Attorney General Eric Holder stating that the President did not have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American non-combatant on American soil.[3] Huey Long 1935 – Against Not Requiring Senate Confirmation for National Recovery Act Leadership Senator Huey Long of Louisiana is often described as the master of the filibuster. [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 12:35 pm
Holder Jr. [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 7:12 pm
They had also hired former Attorney General Eric Holder to represent them in legal battles with the White House. [read post]
31 Mar 2017, 7:30 am
In one of his last acts in office, Attorney General Eric Holder submitted a statement of interest supporting the lawsuit, the first ever U.S. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 12:18 pm
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]
26 Mar 2017, 9:01 pm
Disclosure will warn future IRS employees that if they politicize the IRS, they will be exposed.Then there is Operation Fast and Furious, the unsuccessful (to put it mildly) federal firearms sting operation, which allowed about 2,000 military grade weapons to reach Mexican drug gangs and led to the death of an agent of the United States Border Patrol.Congress, for the first time ever, held Eric Holder in contempt for his failure to release documents related to this gun transfer. [read post]
