nytimes.com - 1/16/2009
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Eric H. Holder Jr., the attorney general pick, was also forced to defend his record in the Clinton administration. >
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/15/2009
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Not that it's likely, but Brad Schlozman may
want to hope that Eric Holder's confirmation somehow gets...
derailed. That's because Holder just told the Senate Judiciary committee that he wants to reconsider the Bush Justice Department's curious ...
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Holder: "I Will Review That Determination" Not To ...
thinkprogress.org - 1/16/2009
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During his confirmation hearing today, Attorey General nominee
Eric Holder unequivocally rejected torture . “No one is...
above the law,” Holder said repeatedly during the hearing. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) could not fathom that an Attorney ...
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Cornyn’s Absurd Hypothetical For Holder: What If ...
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The Early Word: Obama's Economy
The Caucus —
... to meet with workers and discuss his economic stimulus package. Mr. Obama will tour the Cardinal Fastener & Specialty Company, which produces parts used to construct wind turbines, according to the transition office. On the Hill The confirmations of several of Mr. Obama’s cabinet picks took center stage on Thursday. The main event was the Judiciary Committee’s seven-hour grilling of Eric H. Holder , the president-elect’s nominee for attorney general. A dispatch from The Times’s Eric Lichtblau: Mr. Holder was forced to defend his record as deputy attorney ...
Panel to Vote on Holder Next Wednesday
The Caucus —
The Senate Judiciary Committee set next Wednesday for a vote on the confirmation of Eric Holder Jr. for attorney general, while some Republican senators have begun expressing their support for him. After a meeting with Mr. Holder ...
The Arrogance Of Eric Holder
Rhymes With Right —
One more sign that this man is unfit for the office of Attorney General or any other public trust under the United States. Mr. Holder was forced to defend his record as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration as Republicans pressed him during a daylong confirmation hearing about his role in controversial pardons issued by President Bill Clinton and on other issues. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, led the attack, pointedly suggesting that Mr. Holder had given political cover to then-Vice President Al Gore ...
Carol Felsenthal: Eric Holder and Jack Quinn: Two Players in the Rich Pardon Scandal -- Where They Are Today
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... Republicans had vowed not to rubberstamp this appointment -- as they have all the other cabinet nominees thus far. Holder emerged unscathed. When the Judiciary Committee's ranking Republican Arlen Specter got tough with Holder, accusing him, in essence, of giving Al Gore special treatment by refusing to seek a special counsel to investigate Gore's actions in a 1996 fundraiser which, critics charged, violated campaign finance laws, Holder promptly put Spector in his place: 'You're getting close to questioning my integrity and... that's not fair." ...
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Freeh: Holder was 'used' in Rich pardon —
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Former FBI Director Louis Freeh said Friday that Attorney General-designate Eric Holder allowed himself "to be used" by the Clinton White House in the pardon process for then-fugitive financier Marc Rich in January 2001.
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