examiner.com - 1/10/2009
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Eric Holder, President-Elect Barack Obama's choice for U.S. attorney general, is an impressive candidate who already has significant Justice Department experience. But he comes with baggage that brings into question his respect for individual rights. In addition to his troubling stance on drug ...
thehill.com - 1/12/2009
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The former Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee will support Eric Holder's nomination for attorney general,...
giving him a major boost toward confirmation. Sen. Orrin Hatch (Utah), who chaired the panel for a decade beginning in 1995, ...
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Sen. Hatch to back Eric Holder for AG
washingtonpost.com - 1/10/2009
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the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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The Agitator —
... Eric Holder’s contempt for the Sixth Amendment. Only applies to white collar crime, though, so I guess it doesn’t matter, eh? The great Harvey Silverglate elaborates ...
BREAKING: National Rifle Association Wusses Out On Holder
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Holder has strident, well known anti-second amendment positions. Nonetheless, because the NRA likes to play nice with Democrats, they are going to roll over for Barack Obama on the Holder nomination instead of fighting for, well, the second amendment — their reason for being. ...
1/13: Oh, Guantanamo
Blogometer —
... 's Erick Erickson is blasting the NRA for "succumb[ing] to pressure from Democrats to not actively oppose Eric Holder": "Holder has strident, well known anti-second amendment positions . Nonetheless, because the NRA likes to play nice with Democrats, they are going to roll over for Barack Obama on the Holder nomination instead of fighting for, well, the second amendment -- their reason for being. [...] Pitiful sellouts." Other conservative bloggers are defending the NRA's decision not to go all out in fighting Holder's confirmation: Later, ...
Incoming Attorney General Hostile to Civil Liberties
Stop The ACLU —
... in constitutional double-jeopardy protections. Holder has also been criticized by civil libertarians for seeking to undermine the Sixth Amendment right to counsel, and by ...
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