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8 Mar 2012, 10:48 am by Mike Scarcella
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said today in testimony on Capitol Hill that the Ted Stevens report on prosecutorial misconduct contains "disturbing" findings against Justice Department lawyers. [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 8:30 pm
OUCH: “A few weeks ago, Eric Holder saw nothing wrong with Black Panthers using billy clubs to intimidate voters. [read post]
23 Feb 2010, 5:31 am by Hillary Stemple
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] on Monday praised the role [press release] of the civilian criminal justice system in obtaining a guilty plea from suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi. [read post]
26 Apr 2011, 1:18 pm by Mike Scarcella
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. today weighed in on the controversy surrounding Paul Clement's decision to leave King & Spalding to pursue same-sex marriage litigation, saying Clement does not deserve criticism. [read post]
20 Mar 2009, 6:55 am
From the Blog of Legal Times, an entry begins:Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. strongly encouraged federal agencies to voluntarily disclose... [read post]
12 Jan 2009, 12:46 pm
Yet, in an item on Eric Holder’s GOP Friends in which he correctly notes that Holder will get confirmed with votes to spare, Steve writes, I’m struggling to wrap my head around the Republican gameplan on this. [read post]
26 May 2010, 7:00 pm by Jeralyn
Via Sentencing Law and Policy, Attorney General Eric Holder has issued a new directive to prosecutors on federal sentencing. [read post]
4 Jun 2009, 12:40 am
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] on Wednesday vacated [order, PDF; press release] an order [text, PDF] by former attorney general Michael Mukasey [JURIST news archive] that had denied those facing deportation the right to challenge immigration decisions based on ineffective assistance of counsel claims. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 7:44 am by Zach Zagger
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] invoked the state secrets privilege [text, PDF] Monday to block evidence in a lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) [official website] over its investigation into Muslim mosques. [read post]
3 May 2014, 8:45 am by Nicholas Tomsho
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] stated [text] at a news conference on Friday that he will ask Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] to investigate problems with the application of the death penalty. [read post]
21 Jul 2009, 3:15 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] sent an open letter [text] Monday to US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] to "express [the organization's] strong support for opening a criminal investigation into abusive interrogation practices by the US government since the attacks of September 11, 2001. [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 8:24 am by Todd Ruger
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee today that he wants to sit down with congressional leaders to work out a deal on documents related to the botched Fast and Furious gun smuggling operation “to avoid a constitutional crisis. [read post]
3 Dec 2010, 5:14 pm by Bill Otis
Holder can't quite figure out what to do about WikiLeaks' spilling diplomatic and military secrets all over the world; we still haven't decided where to try Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed; we're going to continue to give Miranda warnings to terrorists, or maybe not; and drug cartels are mutilating and killing dozens of people within shouting distance of our border; etc., et al. [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]
9 Jan 2009, 1:34 pm
JONATHAN ADLER: “The LA Times reports that Eric Holder actively sought to blunt opposition to President Clinton’s pardon of members of two pro-Puerto Rican independence terrorist groups. [read post]
15 May 2013, 7:20 pm
“I don’t have a factual basis to answer the questions that you have asked, because I was recused,” the attorney general said.On and on Holder went: “I don’t know. [read post]
16 Jul 2012, 3:03 pm by nflatow
by Nicole Flatow Although Eric Holder was the first sitting attorney general to be held in contempt, he is one in a line of attorneys general to be used as “congressional punching bags,” American University’s Alexander Wohl writes in Politico. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 12:20 pm by eithurburn@getnicklaw.com
At a meeting of state attorneys general, Attorney General Eric Holder vowed that his office would be bringing more cases against the individuals responsible for corporate fraud. [read post]