Attorney General

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Palin's AG Pick Defended KKK Statue, Mocked Offended Student

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 04.14.2009 | Politics

Sarah Palin's choice for attorney general once wrote a column defending the statue of a KKK figure as an expression of free speech and mocked the psyc...

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Putting "Justice" Back Into D.O.J.

David O. Stewart | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Why shouldn't the people also have their own lawyer?

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Palin Appoints "W.A.R."

Shannyn Moore | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wayne Anthony Ross, Branchflower Report, Attorney General, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin Attorney General, Politics News

Governor Palin just nominated Wayne Anthony Ross as the new attorney general. He's anti-choice advocate and NRA official, is a blatant pander to the base Sarah Palin is hoping to woo in the 2012 election.

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Question For Obama: How About A Science-Based Drug Policy?

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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Attorney General Willing To Reconsider Antitrust Policy For Newspaper Mergers

AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Antitrust Policies, Attorney General, Eric Holder, Newspapers Antitrust Policies, Newspapers, Media News

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday he is open to re-examining government antitrust policies that limit mergers in the stru...

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Attorney General Signals Shift In Medical Marijuana Policy

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marijuana, Eric Holder, Attorney General, Medical Marijuana, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder signaled a change on medical marijuana policy Wednesday, saying federal agents will target marijuana d...

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The Guantanamo Detainees and the Obama Administration: A Meaningful Step for Civil Liberties

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 04.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Guantanamo, Attorney General, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Eric Holder, Obama Detention Policy, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Under Obama, individuals may be lawfully detained at Guantanamo only if they "substantially supported hostilities in aid of enemy forces." In the law, a single word can make a world of difference.

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Eric Holder, State And Federal Prosecutors, Preparing For Surge Of Financial Fraud Cases

New York Times | DAVID SEGAL | Posted 04.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Eric Holder, Surge of Financial Fraud, Eric Holder Task Force, Prosecutions of Financial Fraud, Attorney General, Business News

Spurred by rising public anger, federal and state investigators are preparing for a surge of prosecutions of financial fraud. Attorney General Eric...

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A Commission of Inquiry: Not Criminalizing Policy Differences

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 04.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, Arlen Specter, Senator-Specter, Attorney General, Bush Crimes, Bush Prosecutions, Eric Holder, Politics News

The real danger here is that unlawful conduct will be chalked up to policy differences and swept under the rug before the American public can even learn the full truth about what happened.

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Massive US, Mexico Drug Operation Busts 750 People, Nets $59 Million In Cash

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Drug Bust, Attorney General, Eric Holder, Mexico Us Drug Bust, Mexico, Massive Mexico Us Drug Bust, World News

Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the US and Mexican authorities have arrested 750 people in a massive anti-drug operation that has ta...

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Dear Mr. Holder

Jim Lichtman | Posted 03.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Monica Lewinsky, Eric Holder Attorney General, Attorney General, Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal, Secret Service, Eric Holder, Clinton Lewinsky, Politics News

Mr. Attorney General, I hope you will take the necessary action to help the people of the Secret Service do their jobs, confident that they will never have to be called to testify against a sitting President.

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Blago Red Tape Breakout: The Game!

MochiAds (www.mochiads.com) | Posted 03.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Blackberry, Arkanoid, Attorney, Pong, Impeachment, Attorney General, Blago Game, Blagojevich Flash Game, Blagojevich the Game, Rod Blagojevich, Govenor, Comedy News

Help Attorney General Lisa Madigan bust through the political red tape and serve Illinois Governor Blagojevich with impeachment papers.

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Eric Holder Confirmed As First Black Attorney General

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Eric Holder won Senate confirmation Monday as the nation's first African-American attorney general, after supporters from both part...

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The Torture Memos Are the Crime: Why Obama and Holder Should Smack Cornyn Down

Pete Cenedella | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cia, Attorney General, Holder Confirmation, Senator John Cornyn, Department of Justice, John Yoo, Alberto Gonzales, Barack Obama, Torture Memos, Eric Holder, Torture, Politics News

Whether John Cornyn and his fellow apologists for torture like it or not, Eric Holder not only has every right to pursue those who participated in the torture memos, it will be his duty to do just that.

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Holder Can't Prosecute Bush Abuses Too Many Democrats Aided and Abetted Them

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 02.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Attorney General, Orrin Hatch, Eric Holder, Gop, George Bush, Democrats, Confirmation Hearings, Hillary Clinton, Senate Judciciary Committee, Civil Liberties, Warrantless Wiretapping, Politics News

Holder is seemingly willing to let bygones be bygones when it comes to prosecuting Bush's crew because it would pry open the Democrats dirty but hardly unknown secret.

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Two Questions

John Cusack | Posted 02.11.2009 | Politics

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Two questions we should demand Congress ask of Eric Holder before confirming him. The same two questions Mukasey refused to answer.

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Not a Woman in the Picture

Paul Jenkins | Posted 02.10.2009 | Politics

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Is it a coincidence that in the world's largest economy, whose military expenditure accounts for half the global total, the most senior posts dealing with money and war are still reserved for men?

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Constitutional Coup Averted In Illinois

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vice President, Supreme Court, Law, Impeachment, Greg Harris, Cabinet, Twenty-Fifth Amendment, Military Law, Legal, I'm in Charge Here, President, Governor, Reagan, Blagojevich, Acting President, Amendment XXV, Succession, Constitution, Illinois, Impeach, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, Depose, Acting Governor, Chris Weigant, Rod Blagojevich, Al Haig, Coup, Unfit for Command, Lisa Madigan, Haig, Madigan, Politics News

The Illinois Supreme Court has just rejected what was in essence a coup attempt by the state Attorney General, which would have installed the Lt. Governor in Blagojevich's place.

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Leahy Buckles, Will Push Back Holder Hearings

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics

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The Senate Judiciary Committee will delay confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Eric Holder after all -- accommodating Republican concern...

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Leahy Won't Give In To GOP On Holder, Blames Rove

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rove Holder Hearings, Timeline Holder, Holder Hearings, Karl Rove, Leahy Holder, Justice Department, Attorney General, Partrick Leahy, Eric Holder, Gop Complaints, Politics News

The Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee signaled on Friday that he will not acquiesce to GOP complaints and would stick to his original timelin...

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What Does Obama's Attorney General Pick Mean For The Adult Movie Industry?

Susannah Breslin | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder, Pornography, Politics, Porn Industry, Barack Obama, Porn, Attorney General, Sex, Politics News

Porn, to paraphrase Martin Amis, is a rough trade, indeed. More succinctly put, it's not easy to get fucked for a living.

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A Bailout for Gonzales?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lawyers, Imprisonment, Jail Time, Bailout, Alberto Gonzales, Wall Street, Attorney General, Defense Lawyers, Politics News

Prisons are hugely profitable these days which may explain why the U.S. now has the dubious distinction of having the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world .

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Holder As Attorney General Seen Likely To Escalate War On Drugs

HuffPost | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder, War on Drugs, Attorney General, President Obama, Politics News

There's been plenty of right-wing hand-wringing recently over fears that Barack Obama's election will bring about a new era of 1960s liberalism. Oba...

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Holder Could Be GOP Target

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eric Holder, Bush, Barack Obama, Cabinet, Justice Department, Presidential Appointments, Attorney General, Eric Holder Obama Cabinet, Eric Holder Attorney General, Obama Attorney General, Obama Transition, Obama Cabinet, Politics News

Eric Holder's sterling credentials are one thing, but politics is another. A political appointment to a top spot is generally a pro forma affair; it may be anything but that with Holder.

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Eric Holder Is Change I Can Believe In

Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Top Cop, John Ashcroft, The Rachel Maddow Show, Obama-Biden Administration, President Barack Obama, Attorney General, Arianna Huffington, Alberto Gonzales, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News

Like many Americans of all colors, I have a healthy respect, if not outright fear of law enforcement. One can't always expect fairness in the criminal justice system.

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