tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/8/2009
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The bad blood between Senate Judiciary chair Pat Leahy, and ranking Republican Arlen Specter, over Attorney General nominee Eric Holder, shows no signs of abating.
Yesterday, Specter pointedly questioned Holder's record of independence, even comparing Holder to Alberto Gonzales -- a low ...
latimes.com - 1/9/2009
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latimes.com —
Reporting from Washington -- Attorney general nominee Eric
H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his subordinates
at the Clinton Justice Department to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 grant of clemency to 16 members of two violent ...
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Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency - Los ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/6/2009
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It doesn't get harsher than that. In a
floor speech today, Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on
the Senate Judiciary committee, suggested that Eric Holder, Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General, might follow in the footsteps of ... ...
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Specter: Holder Could Be Another Gonzo
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Hullabaloo —
Party Like It's 1999 by dday The efforts by the right-wing to derail the nomination of Eric Holder is an object lesson in how they will press every advantage, use every trick, and enlist every argument to deliver defeats to their adversary, simply because they treat politics like the sports section, charting wins and losses. They are very effective in the minority, and with a dreadfully bumbling majority as their opponent, that effectiveness will be magnified. Watch Arlen Specter paint Holder as a cross between Nixon and Idi Amin: The senator, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who is the ranking Republican on the Judiciary ...
Specter and Grassley double team Holder
Daily Kos —
... he had "not taken any position" on the nominee, blasted Holder, comparing him to Alberto Gonzales. In less than two months, Specter went from saying that Holder's role in the pardon of Marc Rich would be ''a factor to consider,'' to comparing him to the worst Attorney General in recent memory. Patrick Leahy responded to Specter's ridiculous assertion, saying: ...
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Specter Drops Opposition To Holder -- Leahy Pleased
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/28/2009 — It looks like Arlen Specter, the ranking GOPer on the Senate Judiciary committee, has decided to support Eric Holder's nomination to be Attorney General after all, as Elana reports over at TPMDC.
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