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24 Feb 2011, 7:44 am by Steve Hall
Attorney General Eric Holder to reject a request from 13 state attorneys general for help acquiring a drug used in executions by lethal injection. [read post]
24 Feb 2011, 5:20 am
Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking yesterday at Duquesne University, declined to address the Obama administration's decision to stop defending a federal law banning same-sex marriage. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 10:59 pm by A
The administration says it reviewed DOMA and believes it unconstitutionally discriminates against gays; Attorney General Eric Holder said that if Congress wishes to enforce the law, it may appoint its own lawyers to do so.Interestingly, a number of Republican lawmakers took time out of slashing the rest of the budget to complain that the government should continue to fund any challenges to the conservative law and some even threatened not to fund challenges to the… [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 5:32 pm by FDABlog HPM
By Ricardo Carvajal – In a letter directed to Attorney General Eric Holder, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) asked the U.S. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 3:04 pm by WSJ Staff
Attorney General Eric Holder informed House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday that the president has directed the Justice Department not to defend the constitutionality of a law that prevents the federal government from recognizing gay marriage. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 11:22 am by David Lat
Attorney General Eric Holder’s letter explaining the decision to Speaker of the House John Boehner appears here.In other marriage-equality-related news, the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) — the organization represented by Ted Olson and Davis Boies inthe Prop 8 litigation — has filed a motion in the Ninth Circuit, asking that court to lift its stay on same-sex marriage in California.Read more at the links below.BREAKING: DOJ Will No… [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 11:19 am by Robin E. Shea
Attorney General Eric Holder has said that the Administration no longer intends to defend challenges by legally married same-sex couples against the Defense of Marriage Act, which interprets "marriage" for purposes of federal law as being between one man and one woman. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 11:17 am by Joanna Chung
Attorney General Eric Holder said President Barack Obama has concluded that the administration cannot defend the federal law that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 10:39 am by Judicial Watch Blog
President Obama vowed not to abuse the exemption, however, and Attorney General Eric Holder issued new rules ordering agency heads to invoke it only when “genuine and significant harm to national defense or foreign relations is at stake. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
 "Two years ago, I wrote to the Department urging a full criminal investigation into this matter," wrote Leahy in his letter to Attorney General Eric Holder. [read post]
22 Feb 2011, 9:26 am by Steve Hall
A number of state attorneys general have written to U.S. [read post]
21 Feb 2011, 7:09 am
United States Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday that the operation has been a success: "Through this operation, we have identified and shut down a variety of large-scale fraud offenses. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 2:06 pm by Suzanne Ito, ACLU
And if you haven't done so already, tell Attorney General Eric Holder we need a full investigation of those responsible for that torture. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 1:59 am
An independent cattlemen's group is charging its larger competitor with using federal "Beef Checkoff" marketing dollars to illegally influence government actions and policies.The Billings, MT-based R-CALF United Stockgrowers of America made the charge earlier this month against the Denver-based National Cattleman's Beef Association in a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Attorney General Eric Holder, and USDA Inspector… [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 12:55 pm by Steve Hall
Attorney General Eric Holder to help their states be able to perform executions. [read post]
10 Feb 2011, 8:25 am by Steve Hall
Attorney General Eric Holder, the attorneys general in 13 states said injection is the execution method in the majority of states with a death penalty, and protocols in those states use sodium thiopental, "an ultra-short-acting barbiturate. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 1:42 pm by Steve Hall
Attorney General Eric Holder for help in either finding new sources for sodium thiopental or making the federal government's sources available to the states. [read post]