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16 Jan 2009, 8:33 pm
If Barack Obama and Eric Holder really believe in change, they should change the Justice Department's reliance on assembly line justice. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 8:47 am
Attorney General-Designate Eric Holder's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee... [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 4:07 am
Holder said he would classify "waterboarding" as torture and move to bar the controversial interrogation practice. [read post]
16 Jan 2009, 2:17 am
In light of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings on the nomination of Eric Holder to be Attorney General of the United States, I was struck by a quotation that my student Michael Harper found in a speech Theodore Roosevelt delivered in Pittsburgh on the Fourth of July, 1902. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 9:06 pm
One thing was certain in listening to Eric Holder's testimony - there will no longer be politicized hiring at the justice department. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 5:35 pm
With the confirmation hearing of Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder (not to mention a large airplane floating in the Hudson River) dominating much of today’s news, the confirmation hearing of Mary Schapiro, whom Barack Obama has nominated for SEC Chairperson, got a bit less attention than it might have otherwise. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 1:50 pm
That was the assessment Thursday by Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for attorney general, who made the statement during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. [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]
15 Jan 2009, 10:01 am
in The New York Times, from Jack Goldsmith, Jeffrey Rosen, Noah Feldman, Charles Stimson, and me.... [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 9:54 am
While the current Attorney General will spend his last couple days in office handling a pressing matter for a local federal judge, Eric Holder, Obama’s nominee for attorney general, will begin his grilling today before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Holder’s role in controversial Clinton-era pardons is likely to receive extra special attention. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 8:01 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General nominee Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] in confirmation hearings [materials; transcript] Thursday that he believes waterboarding [JURIST news archive] constitutes torture and that it could take a long time to close the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] prison despite the incoming Obama administration's pledge to do so. [read post]
15 Jan 2009, 8:00 am
Our colleagues at Legal Times are following the Eric Holder hearing today live at both the Blog of Legal Times and on Twitter. [read post]