huffingtonpost.com - 12/15/2008
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The Senate Judiciary Committee will delay confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Eric Holder after all -- accommodating Republican concerns that the appointment was being rushed and more vetting of Holder's resume was needed.
In an announcement from his Senate office on Monday ...
thehill.com - 12/16/2008
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thehill.com —
Senate Republicans have requested information about Attorney General
nominee Eric Holder’s role in the Elian Gonzales controversy
as part of a broad probe into his tenure with the Clinton administration and potential ties to presidential scandals ...
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GOP probes Holder’s role in Elian Gonzales case
suntimes.com - 12/17/2008
thinkprogress.org - 12/14/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Senate Republicans, including Sens. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chuck
Grassley (R-IA), and Jon Kyl (R-AZ), are trying delay
confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Eric Holder, raising questions about Holder’s role in the 2001 pardon of ...
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Rove Reportedly Will ‘Help Lead’ GOP’s Fight Against ...
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Leahy caves (a little)
Political Animal —
... . The bad news is, Leahy announced today that he's giving Republicans an extension , accommodating their demands. The good news is, Leahy isn't giving them much. In an announcement from his Senate office on Monday afternoon, committee Chairman Patrick Leahy said the hearings would be moved back from January 9 to January 15, giving Republicans more than "30 days from today" to consider Holder's qualifications. "...[T]o accommodate the Republicans on the Judiciary Committee, at their request we are delaying the hearing, again, until January 15," read Leahy's statement. "The ...
Hullabaloo —
... Republican caterwauling about the Holder nomination, the only one the right seems to have any interest in making a stink over, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy is pushing back the hearing date a week, a kind of compromise. ...
Pat Leahy sends a powerful message to Senate GOP thugs: "You own us!"
DownWithTyranny! —
... rather than to derail the nomination and to inflict maximum humiliation on both the nominee and the president-elect. And then he backs down. Oh, all he's done is push the hearings back to Jan. 15. But that's all he had to do. The message to the the slash-and-burn faction of the Republican Party is clear: Punch us hard, and we'll fold. Has anyone heard any leaks from the Transition Team as to who the president-elect's second choice for AG will be? Here's Sam Stein's report on HuffPost. And take particular note of the link to Sam's report ...
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Leahy wants Holder hearings in early January
politico.com 12/8/2008 — Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) wants to move swiftly to bring Justice about, he said after meeting with Obama's nominee for Attorney General, Eric Holder, this afternoon.
The Judiciary Committee chairman said he will schedule confirmation hearings in ...
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 ...
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... . . .
GOP Forming United Opposition To Holder Nomination
huffingtonpost.com 12/12/2008 — More signs have emerged that Eric Holder's nomination for Attorney General will face a bitter committee fight as Republican Senators on Thursday criticized Holder's work in the Clinton White House and even attempted to tie him to disgraced Illinois ...
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 ...
Yet Another Holder Holdup
firedoglake.com 11/24/2008 —
In case you thought Chiquita and Marc Rich were Eric Holder's only stumbling blocks on his way to being nominated as Barack Obama's Attorney General, Stephanie Mencimer at Mother Jones revealed yet another reason why Senate GOPs might go to town ...
While We're on the Subject of Holder
corner.nationalreview.com 11/26/2008 — ... I think occasional excerpts from the House Committee on Government Reform's lengthy and enlightening report on the Clinton pardons should be required reading -- given not only President-elect Obama's decision to nominate Holder for AG but the ...
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 ...
Holder's hearing moved back —
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From NBC's Pete Williams and Mark MurrayBowing to pressure from Senate Republicans, Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy agreed today to delay the start of the confirmation hearing for Eric Holder to be attorney general.
It will now start ...
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