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President Obama's decision to have White House officials and Cabinet secretaries help raise money for a pro-Obama superPAC is raising questions. The superPAC, Priorities USA Action which is supposed to be independent of the president's re-election campai
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is shown in this file booking photograph released by the US Marshal Service on December 28, 2009. Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian student-turned-al-Qaeda underwear bomber, has been sentenced. Detroit - A federal judge on Thursday se
US Attorney General Eric Holder departs after hosting a press conference with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebilius to announce the new Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (HCFAC) Report and highlight how the Affordable Care Act continues... View Photo »
We'll also continue to review other types of changes to our election systems and processes - including to the procedures governing third-party voter registration organizations, to early voting procedures and to photo identification requirements - to ensure that there is no discriminatory purpose or effe...
Detroit— Defiant underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab called Thursday "a day of victory" as he was sentenced to four life sentences for trying to destroy a Detroit-bound airliner carrying 289 people on Christmas Day 2009. During a minutes-long rant
AFP - Unrepentant to the last, the Nigerian "underwear bomber" who tried to blow up a packed airliner in a botched Al-Qaeda plot on Christmas Day 2009 was handed multiple life sentences by a US judge. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 25, declared he was "proud
Unrepentant to the last, the Nigerian "underwear bomber" who tried to blow up a packed airliner in a botched al-Qaeda plot on Christmas Day 2009 was handed multiple life sentences by a US judge on Thursday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (25) declared he was
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius accompanied by Attorney General Eric Holder, gestures during a news conference announcing the new Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at HHS in Washington. View Photo »
It seems anytime there is criticism of the President or any of his black members of his administration, such as Attorney General Eric Holder, that criticism is decried as racist.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in 2009, soon after he attempted to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb concealed in his underwear. (U.S. Marshals Service / December 28, 2009) The Nigerian man who tried to detonate explosives hidden in his underwear a
The Wall Street Journal editorial page comes out swinging against the Justice Department’s “latest prosecutorial attack on business” via the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits American companies from bribing foreign countries. The Journal , n
Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. (born January 21, 1951) is the 82nd and current Attorney General of the United States and the first African-American to hold the position. He is serving under President Barack Obama. Full Article
Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference to announce the new Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington.
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder (R) listens to U.S. President Barack Obama talk about the details of the $26 billion deal to settle charges of widespread mortgage fraud by some of the nation's largest banks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington,...
View Photo »US President Barack Obama speaks alongside Attorney General Eric Holder (L) and Shaun Donovan, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), about the home loan mortgage settlement between US states and five leading banks at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 09: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (5th L) speaks while Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan (5th R), Colorado Attorney General John W. Suthers (3rd L) Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller (4th L), and other officials listen during a news...
View Photo »U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (R) announces during a news conference February 9, 2012 in Washington that the federal government and 49 state attorneys general have reached a $25 billion agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage servicers to address mortgage loan servicing...
View Photo »U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan (L) and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (R) listen to Colorado Attorney General John Suthers (at podium) during a news conference February 9, 2012 in Washington that announced the federal government and 49 state attorneys general...
View Photo »U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announces February 9, 2012 in Washington that the federal government and 49 state attorneys general have reached a $25 billion agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage servicers to address mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuses.
View Photo »U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder (R) and U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan (at podium) announce February 9, 2012 in Washington that the federal government and 49 state attorneys general have reached a $25 billion agreement with the nation's five largest mortgage...
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder, center, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan listen as President Barack Obama speaks about a mortgage settlement, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in Washington.
View Photo »President Barack Obama, flanked by Attorney General Eric Holder, left, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan, gestures as he discusses the mortgage settlement, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office building on the White House complex in...
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder listens to a reporters question at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, following his announcement of a settlement regarding mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuse.
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder listens at right as Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan speaks during news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, to announce a settlement regarding mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuse.
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder, center, talks with Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, right, at the Justice Department in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, during a news conference to announce a settlement regarding mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuse.
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder, center, accompanied by Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan, right, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, and other federal and state officials announces a settlement regarding mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuse, Thursday, Feb....
View Photo »Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius accompanied by Attorney General Eric Holder, gestures during a news conference announcing the new Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at HHS in Washington.
View Photo »Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius listens at left as Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference to announce the new Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at HHS in Washington.
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 02: Attorney General Eric Holder (3rd-R) arrives at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, February 2, 2012 in Washington. The committee is hearing testimony from the Attorney General on the Fast & Furious program at the Department of Justice.
View Photo »U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder receives information from counsel as he testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice" on Capitol Hill in Washington February 2, 2012.
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 02: Staff members stand on the side of the room as U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, on monitor, testifies during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing February 2, 2012 in Washington. The committee is hearing testimony from the Attorney...
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 02: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder listens to questions from Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) during a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing February 2, 2012 in Washington. The committee is hearing testimony from the Attorney General on the...
View Photo »U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder talks with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) before a hearing on "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice" on Capitol Hill in Washington February 2, 2012.
View Photo »U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testifies before a House Oversight and Government Reform Hearing on "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice" on Capitol Hill in Washington February 2, 2012.
View Photo »WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 02: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is sworn in before a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing February 2, 2012 in Washington. The committee is hearing testimony from the Attorney General on the 'Fast and Furiousm,' the Mexican gun-running...
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled, "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice".
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing entitled, "Fast & Furious: Management Failures at the Department of Justice". Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa,...
View Photo »Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference to announce the new Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program Report, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington.
View Photo »The reality is that – in jurisdictions across the country – both overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common
It seems anytime there is criticism of the President or any of his black members of his administration, such as Attorney General Eric Holder, that criticism is decried as racist.
We'll also continue to review other types of changes to our election systems and processes - including to the procedures governing third-party voter registration organizations, to early voting procedures and to photo identification requirements - to ensure that there is no discriminatory purpose or effe...
I invited her several times over the past year. She'd heard what a great event it was and Dr. Sharon Malone, [Attorney General] Eric Holder's wife, told her what a great event it was . . . So when I saw her at the White House for the Kennedy Center Honors, I said, ‘You know you have to come to BET Honor...
Each of these lawsuits claims that we've attained a new era of electoral equality, that America in 2012 has moved beyond the challenges of 1965 ... I wish that were the case. But the reality is that in jurisdictions across the country both overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common...
Eric Holder is fighting voter ID laws so the deceased won’t be disenfranchised at the ballot box.
The right to vote is not only the cornerstone of our governance, it is the lifeblood of our democracy. And no force has proved more powerful, or more integral to the success of the great American experiment, than efforts to expand the franchise
Do you think Eric Holder should resign?
In the spirit of Dr. King, let us signal to the world that, in America today, the pursuit of a more perfect union lives on
Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation Fast and Furious, making him the first U.S. senator to demand that Holder step down now. . . . Isakson joins 52 congressmen, three presidential candidates and ...
After a thorough and fair review, we concluded that the state had failed to meet its burden of proving that the voting change would not have a racially discriminatory effect
Georgia Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over Operation Fast and Furious, making him the first U.S. senator to demand that Holder step down now. . . . Isakson joins 52 congressmen, three presidential candidates and ...
Overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common
Americans who are outraged at Terry's death rightly want to know whether it has been scrapped and whether Attorney General Eric Holder who oversees ATF, is aggressively investigating Fast and Furious. I can report that the answer to both of those questions is a resounding yes.
Each of these lawsuits claims that we have attained a new era of electoral equality, that America in 2012 has moved beyond the challenges of 1965 and that therefore Section 5 is no longer necessary ... I wish this were the case, but the reality is that in jurisdictions across the country both overt and ...
Ever since the Department of Justice’s gun-running operation known as Fast and Furious became public, the Obama administration’s response has been slow and infuriating. Of particular concern is Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.’s lack of candor concerning what he knew and when he knew it.
Making voter registration easier is simply not likely by itself to make our elections more susceptible to fraud. That claim is itself fraudulent
Senate Republican leaders on Friday demanded that Attorney General Eric Holder respond to requests for information on whether Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan has any conflict of interest in the health reform lawsuit the court will take up this spring.
I wish this were the case ... But the reality is that, in jurisdictions across the country, both overt and subtle forms of discrimination remain all too common. And though nearly five decades have passed since Dr. King shared his vision from the mountaintop - despite all the progress we’ve made, the bar...
House Democrats wrote to the U.S. Judicial Conference on Friday urging the watchdog agency to request that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Despite our nation’s record of progress, and long tradition of extending voting rights
If the [Obama] administration continues to have full confidence in a failed administration by Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, then ultimately the administration is going to be doomed ... Eric Holder seems to have the full confidence of the president, and I can’t understand why.
We need – and the American people deserve – election systems that are free from discrimination, free from partisan influence, and free from fraud
Eric Holder has given weapons to Mexican nationals so they can kill Americans
Despite our nation’s record of progress, and long tradition of extending voting rights – today, a growing number of citizens are worried about the same disparities, divisions, and problems that Dr. King fought throughout his life to address and overcome
