dailykos.com - 11/22/2008
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Over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation's blog, Deeplinks, Kevin Bankston writes about what Obama could do to stop telco amnesty, framing his post in response to this NYT story by Eric Lichtblau and James Risen, the reporting duo who broke the illegal spying story back in December 2005. They ...
volokh.com - 11/21/2008
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volokh.com —
Earlier this year, Eric Holder--along with Janet Reno
and several other former officials from the Clinton Department
of Justice--co-signed an amicus brief in District of Columbia v. Heller. The brief...
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Eric Holder on firearms policy:
blog.newsweek.com - 11/18/2008
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blog.newsweek.com —
President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder
as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer
in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the ...
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Obama's Attorney General
salon.com - 11/19/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below - Update II) Even before there
has been a single Cabinet selection announced, I'm already
weary from all the gossip and chatter about potential appointees, but, at least for me, the position of Attorney General is different. So much of ...
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Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder - Glenn ...
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... You know, I have to say that I have been pretty pleased with the Change President-elect Obama has been delivering so far. Indeed, since dropping the Post Partisan Unity Schtick since the Democratic Convention, I have had virtually nothing to complain about. Except one thing - John Brennan. But I am quite pleased to see that the Left blogs have refound their voice and have universally expressed their concerns about Brennan. ...
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