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10 Sep 2012, 5:23 am
Attorney General Eric Holder announced early last year that the Justice Department would discontinue defense of the Defense of Marriage Act. [read post]
8 Sep 2012, 2:57 am by SHG
  And the only thing you can count on is that it's not going to get any better, as Eric Holder just made clear. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 4:20 am by Joe Sanders
Eric Holder, Director of DOJ as America’s Attorney General, has taken no action. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 2:01 am by Joe Sanders
Attorney General Eric Holder could file a lawsuit if the department does not believe Kansas is properly resolving the problems by late October. [read post]
6 Sep 2012, 9:12 am by Rick Hasen
Attorney General Eric Holder agreed Wednesday to accept Florida’s revised early-voting plan for five counties covered by the federal Voting Rights Act. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 12:27 pm by Gail Heriot and John Eastman
  Indeed, in a recent interview with Columbia University president Lee Bollinger (the named respondent in Grutter), Attorney General Eric Holder argued that affirmative action policies should be generally expanded:   “The question is not when does [affirmative action] end, but when does it begin … When do people of color truly get the benefits to which they are entitled? [read post]
4 Sep 2012, 3:41 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
As The New York Times put it, Attorney General Eric Holder’s “announcement closes a contentious three-year investigation by the Justice Department and brings to an end years of dispute over whether line intelligence or military personnel or their superiors would be held accountable for the abuse of prisoners …. [read post]
1 Sep 2012, 7:11 am by tekEditor
.), sent a pointed letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano protesting the recent spat of domain name seizures—executed on dubious copyright grounds—that have been censoring websites with no due process. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 10:19 am by constitutional lawblogger
Attorney General Eric Holder announced yesterday that the Justice Department will not pursue criminal charges in the two cases--the only two, and the last two--that it investigated involving torture of detainees in U.S. custody. [read post]
31 Aug 2012, 9:04 am by Dan Taglioli
[JURIST] US Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] announced Thursday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] would close its investigation [press release] into the CIA's alleged torture and abuse of detainees, with no criminal charges to be brought as a result of the three-year inquiry. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 2:39 pm by Dan Gauss
But today, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will close its investigation into the CIA’s torture and abuse of detainees without bringing charges. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 1:01 pm by Mike Scarcella
"Based on the fully developed factual record concerning the two deaths, the Department has declined prosecution because the admissible evidence would not be sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt," Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said in a statement issued this afternoon. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 12:55 pm by Andrew Ramonas
" Issa, an ardent critic of Attorney General Eric Holder Jr., took another jab at him, claiming that the Justice Department's top official is "finding ways not to have the voter rolls clean. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 12:50 pm by Joe Palazzolo
Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Justice Department has closed an investigation into the deaths of two detainees who were allegedly interrogated abroad by the CIA. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 12:40 pm by Wells Bennett
Some detainee treatment news here: Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the end of a criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees while in U.S. custody. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 10:01 am by Mike Scarcella
The Texas state attorney general, Greg Abbott, vowed to appeal the ruling. [read post]
30 Aug 2012, 5:38 am by Todd Ruger
District Judge Amy Berman Jackson took the unusual step of asking Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. to come to her courtroom and explain why the Department of Justice is fighting to keep sealed records about a civil rights photographer from Memphis, The Commercial Appeal reported. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 6:00 am by Maggy Baccinelli
The military uniforms seated around me took on new, even heavier significance, for example, during Attorney General Eric Holder’s keynote speech about federal LGBT reforms. [read post]
27 Aug 2012, 9:17 am by McNabb Associates, P.C.
Attorney General Eric Holder has said the United States may consider Bout’s extradition to Russia if it receives a request from the Russian authorities. [read post]