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17 Jul 2018, 3:00 pm
The investigation began under Attorney General Eric Holder, continued under Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and is now proceeding under the current head of the Justice Department, Jeff Sessions. [read post]
9 Feb 2014, 5:49 am by Adam B. Cordover, Attorney-at-Law
United States Attorney General Eric Holder has announced policy changes in the wake of the landmark Supreme Court case of U.S. v. [read post]
15 Jul 2009, 3:01 am
Several major news outlets reported this week that Attorney General Eric J. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 8:25 pm by Jeralyn
In a letter to Congress this summer, Attorney General Holder wrote: The Defense Department “spends approximately $150 million per year on detention operations at Guantánamo, currently at a rate of more than $800,000 per detainee,” Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and other Cabinet members wrote Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and others. [read post]
10 Apr 2009, 7:06 am
* Eric Holder is trying to restore confidence in the Justice Department. [read post]
10 Sep 2012, 10:10 am by Todd Ruger
The House scheduled a vote Thursday on a bill that would reauthorize provisions in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has identified as the DOJ's top legislative priority. [read post]
15 Aug 2013, 12:57 pm
Arguing that the federal criminal justice system is in "too many ways broken," Attorney General Eric Holder spoke Monday to the American Bar Association about reforming the Government's approach to the war on drugs. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 3:45 pm by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) In a speech to the American Bar Association today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a potentially important new change in Justice Department policy on charging drug offenders. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 2:36 pm
If Holder is supporting the bill with that in mind, writes Kerr, “then it seems to me that the debate over his decision is really about the somewhat academic question of the nature of an Attorney General’s constitutional obligations, rather than the question of whether Holder is “politicizing” DOJ. [read post]
18 Sep 2009, 8:48 pm
Attorney General Eric Holder took months to decide on whether to investigate any cases of abuse of detainees overseas with an eye towards criminal prosecution. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 10:22 am by Joe Palazzolo
As promised, Attorney General Eric Holder today filed a 3-page, single-spaced letter with the Fifth Circuit outlining the department’s views on the concept of judicial review. [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 5:07 am by Mike Scarcella
A dozen Democratic senators said in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. and to financial regulators that "banks and their employees found to have broken the law should face appropriate criminal prosecution and civil action. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 11:26 am by Todd Ruger
Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced Monday that they wrote letters about the issue to Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in response to recent media stories. [read post]
23 Mar 2014, 11:29 am by James Hamilton
Attorney General Eric Holder, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Oversight and Government Reform, Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) expressed concern that the investigation of mortgage fraud has not been a top priority for the DOJ and that DOJ has publicly and repeatedly reported inaccurate statistics regarding its efforts to prosecute mortgage fraud cases. [read post]
17 Jan 2015, 4:15 pm
Like co-blogger David Post, I welcome Attorney General Eric Holder’s recently announced policy curtailing federally-sponsored asset forfeiture. [read post]