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3 Jan 2015, 12:51 pm by Bill Otis
To read the NYT, Eric Holder's latest musings, or practically any libertarian blog (Radley Balko's coming first to mind, although most anything in Reason magazine will do), one would think that there is no "war on the police," but only concerned citizens mindful of America's stained, racist past and yearning for less thuggish law enforcement and fairer treatment for minorities, particularly young black men.Only there is a war on police. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 6:52 pm by Anthony Lake
Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia, Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week the results of Operation Broken Trust, an unprecedented nationwide law enforcement operation targeting a variety of investment schemes. [read post]
5 Apr 2012, 11:16 am
Attorney General Eric Holder files the 3-page, single-spaced letter demanded by the 5th Circuit explaining the Administrations actual position on the judicial review of federal statutes. [read post]
21 May 2009, 4:58 pm
According to a press release, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Attorney General Eric Holder launched an interagency high-level task force to help detect and prevent health-care fraud, which robs the nation's coffers of billions of dollars each year. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 3:39 pm
Not only has the indictment been dismissed by Eric Holder and the prosecution dropped; as noted in several sources (such as the New York Times), federal Judge Emmet Sullivan is now initiating criminal contempt investigations of the Justice Department attorneys who prosecuted Stevens. [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]
11 May 2012, 5:10 pm by Alfred Brophy
I'm looking forward to Attorney General Eric Holder's graduation speech tomorrow in Chapel Hill. [read post]
25 Aug 2009, 7:18 pm
Attorney General's Eric Holder announced Monday that he has appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture against some CIA interrogators who questioned detainees captured in the previous administration's "war on terror. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 11:45 am by Jeralyn
Attorney General Eric Holder will announce at 2:00 pm today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other 9/11 detainees at Guantanamo will be tried by military commission instead of in federal criminal court. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 10:50 am by David Ingram
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. said today he has little choice but to abandon the civilian criminal case against alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others, after a congressional ban on the use of federal funds to transfer them from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
6 Mar 2015, 10:34 am by Kent Scheidegger
The uninhibited Investors Business Daily has this editorial with the above title regarding the USDoJ report on the Ferguson, MO PD, not to be confused with the report the same day on the Brown shooting, which we noted here.I have not had time to review this report in detail myself, so I can't vouch for the accuracy of the editorial, but I link it for those readers who are interested, and I have pasted part of it after the break.Racial Politics: Unable to pin racism charges on Ferguson policeman… [read post]
16 Nov 2010, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Last week, in a rule change that is to be published in the Federal Register today (full text), Attorney General Eric Holder delegated that authority to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and, in some cases, to the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, of the Justice Department. [read post]
21 Mar 2009, 2:53 pm
., wrote Attorney General Eric Holder that they would “actively oppose any effort to reinstate the 1994 ban, or to pass any similar law. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 10:22 am by Mike Scarcella
House Republicans today continued to hammer Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. over the department’s oversight of the botched gun trafficking investigation in Arizona dubbed Operation Fast and Furious. [read post]
25 Feb 2009, 10:04 am
I thought I made a really cool discovery when I learned that they surf at Gitmo. [read post]
17 Sep 2014, 12:56 pm by Mary Jane Wilmoth
Attorney General Eric Holder publicly endorsed enlarging U.S. whistleblower reward laws to include expanded rewards under the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act, better known as “FIRREA. [read post]
19 Jun 2010, 5:32 pm by ambimb
Attorney Eric Holder spoke today in Wilmington, NC, about the need for more resources for public defenders and more substance in the Sixth Amendment right to counsel: “Today the Sixth Amendment right to council is quite simply, not a right at all. [read post]
8 Dec 2011, 10:02 am by Matt Johnston
Congressional Democrats and even Eric Holder himself have already used F&F as a pretext to call for more gun control. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 4:34 pm by Rekha Arulanantham
In remarks delivered at the Northwestern University School of Law today, Attorney General Eric Holder provided the Obama Administration’s most detailed public description yet of the legal authority under which it believes it can carry out targeted killings, including of U.S. citizens abroad. [read post]