michellemalkin.com - 1/28/2009
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The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared the way for AG nominee Eric Holder. [...] Read the rest »
washingtontimes.com - 1/28/2009
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washingtontimes.com —
By: ErikTheDread It's hard to believe Bond. Even
if what he's saying is true (which I find
hard to believe), do Republicans REALLY want to go down this road? Extracting pre hoc promises from nominees that would be binding after confirmation? Does Bond ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Holder assures GOP on prosecution
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/28/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
My colleague Zack at TPMmuck just heard from
an aide to Attorney General nominee Eric Holder. The
aide definitively denied Sen. Kit Bond's (R-MO) claim that Holder had given him "assurances" of avoiding future prosecutions of Bush intelligence ...
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Talking Points Memo | Holder Aide: We Made No Special ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/28/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
An aide to Eric Holder rejected a report
Wednesday suggesting that the Attorney General nominee had pledged
not to prosecute members of the Bush administration officials who were complicit in illegal harsh interrogations or torture. "Eric Holder ...
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Aide: Holder Has Made No Decisions On Prosecuting Bush ...
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GOP Senators Again Demonstrate Why They’re in the Minority
The Sundries Shack —
... . As Michelle Malkin puts it , the Republicans are confirming the time-honored government policy of “Screw up, move up”. They’re certainly not making a very strong case that they need to be in charge. We can get one of those water-drinking desk birds to press the “yes” button for the Democrats. What we need in Congress are men and women who will only approve competent nominees who will put the concerns of those they serve above their own. ...
2/2: First Geithner, Now Daschle?
Blogometer —
... thinks certain GOP senators painted themselves into a corner by voting to confirm Geithner: "Daschle's 'naive' mistakes make him more qualified to hold a Cabinet position, remember? That's the reasoning embraced by the Lindsay Graham wing of the Republican Party. Now, the B.O. Republicans will have to 1) twist themselves in pretzels to find a logical explanation for opposing this new tax cheat with liabilities three times Geithner's; or 2) assume the downward dog yoga position, approve yet another corrupted Obama nominee, and meekly dub him indispensible and ...
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Did Holder Promise No Torture Prosecutions?
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 1/28/2009 — As I posted, both Sheldon Whitehouse and Pat Leahy suggest that--even though John Cornyn and others made an inappropriate demand that Holder promise not to prosecute any Bushies--Holder did not make that promise.
But right as that came out, the ...
Time to put a "Hold" on Holder
astuteblogger.blogspot.com 1/26/2009 — Aside from the aforementioned abomination of a "stimulus" package , a great place for the Republicans to actually grow a pair would be to focus on derailing the Eric Holder nomination; Here is a letter that is a good template for what could (and ...
How Much Opposition to Eric Holder Is Enough?
campaignspot.nationalreview.com 1/13/2009 — Erick Erickson of RedState comes out, guns blazing, against the NRA for not using everything in their arsenal (no pun intended) against the nomination... . . .
Steele
corner.nationalreview.com 1/31/2009 — I like Michael Steele -- he's one of those charismatic guys who'd be impossible not to like if you were trying not to like him. I've only met him a couple of times, but one was in a green room where we both found ourselves with an hour to kill. ...
Last Try on Holder Nomination, Part I
firedoglake.com 11/29/2008 —
As you may recall, I expressed some dismay upon learning of the Eric Holder nomination for AG. Back in June of this year, Kirk Murphy had done a piece on Holder's involvement in negotiating a plea deal for Chiquita that included no criminal ...
Holder's race remarks: Good, bad sign?
swamppolitics.com 2/19/2009 — by Josh Meyer
For the past eight years, the U.S. Justice Department and the Bush administration were relatively quiet on the issue of race and its place within the social fabric of America and the enforcement of civil rights and justice.
But on ...
Republicans ask for more time on Holder vote
thehill.com 1/21/2009 — Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee signaled Wednesday they would seek to delay the confirmation of Eric Holder, President Obama's nominee for attorney general. The committee had scheduled a vote for later in the day, but Republicans on the ...
Judiciary Committee Approves Holder Nomination
corner.nationalreview.com 1/28/2009 — To recap:
ITEM: When Eric Holder was the number 2 official in the Clinton Justice Department, he engineered the pardons of FALN terrorists, a precedent that laid the ground work the next year for President Clinton's pardons of two Weather ...
Senate committee approves Holder
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Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/28/2009
AP - Eric Holder's nomination as the first African-American attorney general moved to the full Senate on Wednesday with broad bipartisan support, as Republicans who earlier criticized the nominee determined he was well qualified for the job.
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