latimes.com - 1/9/2009
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-holder9-2009jan09,0,6643509.story Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency By Josh Meyer and Tom Hamburger January 9, 2009 Reporting from Washington — Attorney general nominee Eric H. Holder Jr. repeatedly pushed some of his ...
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 ...
thehill.com - 1/12/2009
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thehill.com —
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
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Oops, He Did It Again: Eric Holder’s New Pardon Controversy
Firedoglake —
... Read the entire article, it is devastating. But, really, it is not that shocking in the least if your examine Eric Holder's history; he is always willing to push for a cause in the name of political or financial opportunism. As the instant example shows, he will even sell out his own troops in the Justice Department instead of having their back like an appropriate leader. The same bad example set in other previously discussed instances of Holder's questionable history (see: ...
Former Pardon Attorney Who Was Transferred For Racist Remark Now Critical Of Holder
Think Progress —
... . The LA Times, for example, reports today that Roger Adams, the Justice Department’s pardon attorney from 1997-2008, is suggesting that Holder’s support for granting clemency to several Puerto Rican nationalists was inappropriate: ...
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