When The U.S. Government Can Kill You, Explained
On Monday, the Obama administration explained when it's allowed to kill you. Speaking to students and faculty at Northwestern University law school...
On Monday, the Obama administration explained when it's allowed to kill you. Speaking to students and faculty at Northwestern University law school...
AP | Posted 02.28.2012
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder is defending the Justice Department's opposition to some state laws requiring voters to present photo IDs w...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 04.03.2012
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder clashed with Republicans at a House committee hearing Thursday over demands that the Justice Departmen...
AP | By JACQUES BILLEAUD | Posted 01.24.2012
PHOENIX -- Two men pleaded guilty to buying guns that were destined to be smuggled into Mexico, the first convictions in the federal government's botc...
AP | PETE YOST and APRIL CASTRO | Posted 02.12.2012
AUSTIN, Texas — Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year's elections amid a flurry of a...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 02.07.2012
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers told Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to fire some Justice Department subordinates over the flawed arm...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 12.07.2011
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that his testimony to Congress about a controversial gun-smuggling probe was truthful and ...
The Relentless Conservative | Posted 10.26.2011
While the Internet may be important, there's no reason why the rest of us paying customers should pay more so that the unemployed and chronic poor get a free ride.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.14.2011
In the midst of the debt ceiling frenzy, nobody seems to have noticed that Obama is negotiating in a markedly different way than what we've seen from him in the past. He is at the absolute center of the showdown.
HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 07.06.2011
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder sent a memo to the federal agencies involved in the president's new Oil and Gas Price Fraud Working Gr...
Peter M. Shane | Posted 05.25.2011
A distinguished fellow law professor, Adam Winkler, has recently argued that the Obama Administration's decision not to defend the constitutionality o...
Andrew Kreig | Posted 05.25.2011
Here's why the Justice Department's halt to a key part of its CIA torture investigation looks like another whitewash. The DOJ compromised its probe ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Many Democrats in this election cycle seem to be getting much better at the tactic known as "the attack ad."
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
[OK, that was rather a fun title to write, but I have to at least begin with a warning that, while today's column is almost completely Obama-centric i...
Andrew Kreig | Posted 05.25.2011
The Justice Department Monday announced arrests of two Alabama gambling kingpins and four legislators in a corruption probe primarily targeting Democratic office-holders and contributors.
Andrew Kreig | Posted 05.25.2011
Forensic medical expert Cyril H. Wecht provides a vitally needed defendant's perspective on the terrible Justice Department misconduct that USA Today ...
Andrew Kreig | Posted 05.25.2011
A question reporters and the public need to pursue is whether a culture of error and cover-up prevailed in the Department of Justice under Bush and continues under President Obama.
Dave Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011
While many have waited a lifetime to hear government officials address the lack of competition in agriculture and enforce antitrust laws, one question remains: How fast will the wheels of justice turn?
Posted 05.25.2011
Liz Cheney's group, Keep America Safe shot back at U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's comments on Tuesday that terrorists in court have the same righ...
Bob Franken | Posted 05.25.2011
Political sport has put Attorney General Eric Holder and Obama, on the defensive. They are running in reverse as they once again heed the call of political expedience even when it comes to eroding the 5th Amendment.
David Coleman | Posted 05.25.2011
Unlike the use of torture -- which is illegal under domestic and international law, frequently unproductive and a political shot-to-the-foot of our national interests in being seen to adhere to the rule of law -- traditional law enforcement tools for eliciting cooperation of suspects have been long considered lawful.
Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011
The radical right of the GOP has perfected the art of misinformation, honing the Big Lie to a masterpiece of fiction that makes Dostoevsky look like a hack in comparison.
Posted 05.25.2011
On January 11th, a few weeks before his plans for a trial at Foley Square fell apart, Holder flew to Boston, to preside over the installation of a new...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
Obama's plan is good news for medical marijuana advocates, but although this is a historic shift in the War on Drugs, it does not go far enough because it does not resolve the illogic of the underlying legal issue.
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, defended Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday over racial remarks th...
Mother Jones | Adam Serwer | Posted 05.05.2012