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Obama Nominates Top Polluter Lawyer To Enforce Environmental Laws

Think Progress | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama has nominated a lawyer for the nation's largest toxic polluters to run the enforcement of the nation's environmental laws. On T...

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Obama Chides Holder For Comments On Race

AP | Helene Cooper | Posted 04.07.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he would not have used the same language that Eric Holder did last month when the attorney general decl...

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AG Nominee Holder Adds Blagojevich Tie To Disclosure Forms

Chicago Sun-Times | Posted 01.29.2009 | Chicago

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Eric Holder -- President-elect Barack Obama's pick to head the Justice Department -- has amended his Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation paperwork...

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Bush Official Backs Obama's AG Nominee

The Hill | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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A former Bush administration official who prosecuted fugitive financier Marc Rich is supporting the attorney general candidacy of Eric Holder -- the m...

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GOP Signals Heated Confirmation Battle Over Holder

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

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More signs have emerged that Eric Holder's nomination for Attorney General will face a bitter committee fight as Republican Senators on Thursday criti...

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Holder Could Be GOP Target

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

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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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Pres-Elect Obama Names Eric Holder U.S. Attorney General

Erin Medlicott | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics

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President-elect Barack Obama today named Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. as the next U.S. Attorney General. He has accepted the position, pending a Senate approval.

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Janet Napolitano: Attorney General?

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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UPDATE 11/13: The Washington Independent reports that Napolitano hasn't ruled out the AG spot: After Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, widely rumored t...

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Obama Cabinet Predictions: Who Could Get Picked?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

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UPDATED on November 5 at 8:00 p.m. Even before Barack Obama's historic victory, Washington was abuzz over what a Democratic White House might resembl...

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