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powerlineblog.com - 11/19/2008
Eric Holder, AG?
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News reports indicate that Barack Obama has offered the post of Attorney General to Eric Holder. No surprise there, except perhaps on the part of internet liberals who thought the Obama administration would be different in some significant respect from the Clinton administration. Holder has ...

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Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 11/19/2008
Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder - Glenn Greenwald
— salon.com — (updated below - Update II) Even before there has been a single Cabinet selection announced, I'm already weary from all the gossip and chatter about potential appointees, but, at least for me, the position of Attorney General is different. So much of ... (more) Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder - Glenn ...

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Obama's Attorney General
blog.newsweek.com - 11/18/2008
Obama's Attorney General
— blog.newsweek.com — President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the ... (more) Obama's Attorney General

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talkleft.com - 11/19/2008
Eric Holder : Wanted Return of Mandatory Minimums and Tougher Pot Penalties
— talkleft.com — As U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C., Eric Holder sought to raise marijuana penalties and restore mandatory minimum penalties for drug crimes. From the Washington Times, December 5, 1996 (via Lexis.com): Eric Holder yesterday said he will seek to ... (more) Eric Holder : Wanted Return of Mandatory Minimums and ...

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Blogometer — ... as "a good man" and "a principled individual": Power Line 's John Hinderaker is one of the few conservative bloggers who isn't particularly troubled by Holder: "Holder has been attacked for his role in the Marc Rich pardon, which you can read about ...

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