Since taking office in 2009, President Obama is on track to deport more people since he’s been in the White House than all of the deportations in U.S. history prior to 1997. This explosion in deportations was the subject of a meeting Attorney General Eric Holder held in Haiti with Caribbean leaders, as he admitted [...]
Eric Holder Concerned Major Banks Too Big to Prosecute
March 7, 2013 | Posted by
In startling testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Attorney General admitted he is concerned that the nation’s largest financial institutions were too big to prosecute.. When the world economy crashed in 2008 because of the malfeasance of some of America’s largest banks, many financial experts wondered if those institutions had gotten too big for [...]
Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to Address Clark Atlanta University
February 1, 2013 | Posted by
Clark Atlanta University will welcome United States Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. as the orator for its inaugural president’s lecture series Feb. 7, at 11:30 a.m., in Davage Auditorium in Haven-Warren Hall on the main campus, 223 James P. Brawley Drive, S.W., Atlanta. Holder will speak on “Rights and the American Polis – Prospects for [...]
Holder Cleared In Fast And Furious Probe
September 19, 2012 | Posted by
The Justice Department’s inspector general cleared Attorney General Eric Holder and his top lieutenants on Wednesday of knowing about the gun-walking operation known as Fast and Furious that allowed thousands of weapons to cross into Mexico. Inspector General Michael Horowitz concluded that there were “serious failures” at both the Justice Department and its Bureau of [...]
Justice Dept. Won’t Prosecute CIA Interrogators for Prisoner Deaths
August 31, 2012 | Posted by
The criminal investigation of the deaths of two prisoners in CIA custody has come to a close, as the Justice Department announced on Thursday that it would not be pursuing charges against the CIA interrogators involved. The investigation was approved over a year ago by Attorney General Eric Holder, and conducted by Justice Prosecutor John [...]
Super PAC Ad Accuses Obama of Racism Against Whites
August 4, 2012 | Posted by
A new Super PAC ad is accusing President Obama of racism against whites by, get this, allowing his attorney general to say that some white people hate the president and attorney general because of their racism. “Implying that whites are too stupid to have honest disagreements with the president without being racist is, in and [...]
Atty Gen Holder Tells NAACP Convention He Will Fight Voter ID Laws
July 10, 2012 | Posted by
Never one to shy away from a fight, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder went into Texas today and aimed a barrage of criticism on the Lone Star State’s efforts to require voter IDs, comparing the new Texas law to an illegal poll tax. “We will not allow political pretexts to disenfranchise American citizens of their [...]
White House: Atty Gen Eric Holder Will Not Be Prosecuted
June 30, 2012 | Posted by
Justice Department won’t prosecute Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt. While Republicans were gleefully congratulating themselves in their right-wing echo chamber about successfully pushing a contempt vote through Congress on Thursday, the White House was curtly dismissal that anything would ever come from the Congressional vote. White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air [...]
Black House Members Force Congress to Vote on Reprimand for Issa
June 29, 2012 | Posted by
A day after House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, the members of the Congressional Black Caucus got their revenge by forcing the House today to vote on a resolution scolding California Rep. Darrell Issa, the engineer behind the contempt vote, for mistreatment of Holder and behavior that they [...]
Atty General Holder Contempt Vote Won’t Yield Any More Documents
June 29, 2012 | Posted by
Now that the Republicans in the House of Representatives have succeeded in trying to shame Attorney General Eric Holder by making him the first sitting attorney general ever to be held in contempt of Congress, legal experts don’t expect the vote to mean that Holder will turn over any additional documents in the controversial ATF [...]
