The Plank (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ezra Klein, building on this Richard Cohen column about Eric Holder's role in the Marc Rich Pardon, says no : I'm not one who thinks the attorney general should be some sort of lone renegade within the administration, but he should feel empowered to aggressively push back against abuses of presidential power. Holder's history offers little evidence of that sort of temperament. I think these are very...
US News (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Is Holder qualified to be attorney general? Did Obama make good choices for national security?
Media Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The old, pre-Obama Eric Holder that is. AP reports: But in the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Holder defended the Bush administrati... . . .
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Washington - Eric Holder is set to become the first African- American to head the US Justice Department, pledging to restore balance in an agency that came under heavy criticism in past years for its approach to the war against terrorism. Holder, 57,...
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Given our coverage of the unprecedented politicization of the Department of Justice under President Bush, we thought this passage from Barack Obama's prepared remarks this morning -- at which he announced Eric Holder as his pick for Attorney General, among...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
President-elect Barack Obama, soon to be the nation's first black president, tapped Washington lawyer Eric Holder on Monday to become the nation's first black attorney general.
TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Earlier we noted that, in speaking this morning about Eric Holder, his pick for Attorney General, Barack Obama seemed to go out of his way to suggest that Holder would reverse the politicization of DOJ that we saw under President...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said today that Eric Holder Jr. has the potential to be an attorney general in the mold of Robert F. Kennedy. In a news conference at the Capitol broadcast on C-SPAN,...
Sentencing Law and Policy (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
As detailed in this CQ Politics entry, the likely next U.S. Attorney General was officially named today: "President-elect Barack Obama on Monday tapped former Deputy Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to take the top spot in the Justice Department."...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
President-elect Barack Obama just held a news conference in Chicago to introduce his national security team, including Eric Holder Jr., his nominee for the country’s top law-enforcement official. Holder’s name has been at the top of the list of potential...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
Washington - US President-elect Barack Obama on Monday named Eric Holder and Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to lead domestic security efforts in the United States. Holder will be the United States' first African-American attorney general. One of h...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 12/01/2008
President-elect Barack Obama, soon to be the nation's first black president, tapped Washington lawyer Eric Holder on Monday to become the nation's first black attorney general.
OpenlineBlog.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama Press Conference National Security Team Announcement Chicago Hilton | December 1, 2008 Hillary Clinton - Secretary of State Robert Gates - Secretary of Defense Janet Napolitano - Homeland Security Eric Holder - Attorney General Susan Rice - U.N. Ambassador Jim Jones - National Security Advisor
Offshore Services (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tax Havens : Myths vs. Facts (video) · Video · RedState: Conservative News and Community found this 7 hours ago on www.youtube.com. 2 · WBBM 780 - Chicago's #1 source for local news, traffic and weather - AP Digital ..
WickedGayBlog.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Human Rights Campaign , the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights group, today praised President-Elect Barack Obama’s selection of Eric Holder as Attorney General of the United States. The former deputy attorney general in the Clinton Administration proved himself to be a strong advocate for fairness and basic rights and an unswerving proponent of fully-inclusive...
