One of my biggest disappointments with President Obama's transition to his second term was the announcement that Holder would be staying on, instead of turning the Justice Department over to someone else. I don't personally dislike Holder (I've never met the man), but I do strongly question his priorities during his time as the nation's Attorney General.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says the FBI's criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service could include potential civil ri...

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration asked Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) Wednesday morning to reintroduce legislation that would help reporters protec...

The GOP's whiplash of President Obama's Labor secretary pick Thomas Perez is not about his allegedly over the top activist cheerleading of labor, civil rights and voting rights. It's about Obama.

I don't agree with everything President Obama does, I don't even agree with the drone policy, but this fake indignation, the rampant ridiculousness of the conservative angst on the drone issue, the obvious hypocritical hysteria, it is simply mind-boggling.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder promised the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that the Obama administration will share more inf...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah's new attorney general was in office for only six days by the time people started calling for his resignation. Republican John...

(Repeats with no changes to text) * Holder unlikely to serve full second term * FBI job due to open up in 2013 ...

Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday, recommending he seriously look into the high profile Libor scandal th...

Liberals are right to criticize Republicans for politicizing Fast and Furious. Conservatives are right that Democrats would have called for Gonzales' head if he'd been implicated. Instead we should recognize that the executive branch, regardless of party, sees itself as above the law.

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) on Friday evoked the Menendez brothers -- the infamous duo responsible for their parents' deaths -- in dismissing Attorne...

Thus, there is ample bipartisan precedent on which Mr. Machen may rely to refrain from prosecuting a congressional contempt citation against Attorney General Holder, and it is highly unlikely that he will even bring the matter before a grand jury.

Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) called House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) "mind-numbingly stupid" for suggesting that Republicans are attacking At...

Today's political commenters often misuse the concept of "checks and balances" to refer directly to politics. This is just flat-out wrong.

By Michael BeckeliWatch NewsIn the aftermath of Tuesday's Republican U.S. Senate primary in Nebraska, campaign finance watchdogs are concerned about...