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19 Dec 2014, 7:34 am by Joy Waltemath
The Department of Justice will officially take the position in litigation that Title VII protections extend to claims of discrimination based on an individual’s gender identity, including transgender status, according to a memorandum issued by Attorney General Eric Holder. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 5:16 pm by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is now interpreting federal law to explicitly prohibit workplace discrimination against transgender people, according to a memo released Thursday by Attorney General Eric Holder. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 11:55 am by Joe Consumer
Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement that the tank conditions at Freedom Industries "were not only grievously unacceptable, but unlawful. [read post]
18 Dec 2014, 8:32 am
" "These employees knew they were producing their medication in an unsafe manner and in insanitary conditions, and authorized it to be shipped out anyway -- with fatal results," Attorney General Eric Holder said. [read post]
17 Dec 2014, 7:33 am by Walter James
  In his statement announcing the confirmation, Eric Holder praised John:  “John has already devoted more than two decades of his life and service to the department – enforcing our nation’s environmental laws; protecting our air, water, land, and wildlife; defending federal agencies; and honoring U.S. treaty rights and obligations to Native Americans. [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 11:52 am by Cody Poplin
According to Reuters, US Attorney General Eric Holder will not force New York Times reporter James Risen to identify his source for a story detailing a failed CIA effort to subvert Iran’s nuclear weapons program. [read post]
11 Dec 2014, 10:53 am by Cyrus Farivar
In a letter sent Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, 10 Democratic senators and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) posed some of the most direct questions about the digital surveillance devices. [read post]
9 Dec 2014, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the issuance of new guidelines on profiling by federal law enforcement officials (and local officials participating in federal task forces). [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 2:06 pm by CJLF Staff
  Attorney General Eric Holder has the final say in the death penalty decision. [read post]
At a moment when the federal government is taking racial profiling seriously, it was gratifying to read that Attorney General Eric Holder "told colleagues that he believed that border agents did not need to consider race or ethnicity. [read post]
8 Dec 2014, 6:35 am by Bill Otis
 Under Eric Holder's reign, headed toward its sixth year (although it seems to some of us more like four hundred), the federal prison population declined last year. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 8:33 pm by Jeralyn
Eric Holder will announce the Obama Administration's new racial profiling rules next week. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 2:53 pm by Bill Otis
 --  Probably the granddaddy of them all was the false accusation, shepherded by current Presidential buddy and Eric Holder confidant Al Sharpton, that a white prosecutor, Steve Pagones, raped and grotesquely abused black teenager Tawana Brawley. [read post]
5 Dec 2014, 9:18 am by Peter Snyder
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official website] announced [press release] Thursday that a civil rights investigation [DOJ findings, PDF] by the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] into the Cleveland Division of Police [official website] discovered "a pattern or practice of unreasonable and unnecessary use of force. [read post]
4 Dec 2014, 2:36 pm by CJLF Staff
Attorney General Eric Holder's handing of the Michael Brown shooting. [read post]