Raw Story (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
U.S. officials are reviewing which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts and the first indications could come next week, the U.S. attorney general said Sunday. Eric Holder told reporters that some decisions could be announced as early as Nov. 16, but he declined to give details or say whether it could include some [...]
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee want to question Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. about his support of a compromise reporters' shield law before they vote on it, according to congressional sources.
Macsmind - News, Conservative Comme (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
A fact. Just don't expect the Eric Holder DOJ to open an investigation into leftwing groups like "Code Pink", but perhaps the feds should scour leftwing sites such as Huffington Puffington Post and Daily Kos for such radicals like 'Screw Them' Markos Moulitsas Zuniga" "The Fort Hood attack is the third instance this year in which American military personnel in the United States...
Another Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
EDITORIAL: Subpoenaed Black Panthers - Washington Times Could the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights actually subpoena U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.? That scenario is unlikely, but it suddenly has entered the realm of possibility. The Civil Rights Commission is making a full inquiry into a controversy about a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and several of its members...
Right Wing Watch (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Last week, when President Obama signed the legislation expanding hate crimes protections, various fringe activists vowed to challenge it by engaging in some pointless grandstanding. And, by gum, that is exactly what they are going to do : A rally is being planned in Washington to raise the alarm over the nation's new "hate crimes" law and to force Attorney General Eric Holder to confront...
An American Lion (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
There's no right to privacy when you're a lonesome prairie dog If you care about privacy, it should shock to you to have to read things like this: When Attorney General Eric Holder invoked the “state secrets” privilege to quash a lawsuit alleging illegal National Security Agency spying last Friday night, his department’s lawyers sounded a lot like those who worked for President George...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday invoked the state secrets privilege in connection with a case titled Shubert, et al. v. Barack Obama, et al. . The Shubert case is pending in federal district court in San Francisco. Assuming the court agrees with the Obama administration's position, the case will be dismissed on the ground that it cannot proceed without a danger that vitally important national...
Examiner (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Attorney General Eric Holder says a lawsuit in San Francisco over warrantless wiretapping threatens to expose ongoing intelligence work and must be thrown out.
Paralegal SLO (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. is the 10th most influential person in Washington, D.C., beating out Attorney General Eric Holder, who comes in at No. 13. GQ magazine said it ranked Roberts 10th on its list of the 50 most powerful people in D.C. because of his apparent influence in moving the court to the right. “A fact: Under Roberts, the Supreme Court has become more conservative than at...
National Review Online (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
F ive months ago, when al-Qaeda jihadist Ali Saleh Kallah al-Marri pleaded guilty, it was obvious that the Justice Department had given him a sweetheart deal. On Thursday, a federal judge in Illinois dutifully finished the job. Al-Marri, a committed sleeper operative sent by our enemies to carry out a post-9/11 second wave of mass-murder attacks inside the United States, was given an appalling sentence:...
BackyardConservative (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
D.C. school choice has a strong advocate--and it's not President Barack Obama. Washington Times : Kevin Chavous, a prominent black D.C. lawyer and board member of D.C. Children First, is the guy making the president so uncomfortable. In the advertisement, Mr. Chavous says, "President Obama is ending a program that helps low-income kids go to better schools, refusing to let any new children in....
tbirdnow.mee.nu (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
And a black lawyer is running ads exposing him! http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/oct/29/dc-voucher-program-fights-to-survive/ Eric Holder told him to stop -- in front of witnesses. I'd call that a dumb move. The lawyer, to his credit,...
Political Ticker (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
(CNN) - The flag-draped cases of 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware early Thursday, in a solemn event attended by President Obama. Also in attendance for the transfer of the bodies were U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Michele Leonhart, acting DEA administrator. The bodies were of three Drug Enforcement [...]
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) have written to Attorney General Eric Holder protesting the DEA crackdown on pain medicine prescriptions . Pharmacies, nursing home administrators and geriatric experts agree with them. They are asking Holder to revise DEA policies on prescribing meds like percocet and morphine, and to seek a legislative change. The DEA has sought to prevent...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Here's what you missed, if you didn't catch it on the White House livestream... THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary __ _________________________________ For Immediate Release October 28, 2009 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT AT RECEPTION COMMEMORATING THE ENACTMENT OF THE MATTHEW SHEPARD AND JAMES BYRD, JR. HATE CRIMES PREVENTION ACT East Room 5:45 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Thank you so much, everybody....
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