latimes.com - 1/15/2009
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Reporting from Washington -- As Eric H. Holder Jr. gears up to go before the Senate Judiciary Committee today for his confirmation as attorney general, some Republicans say they will question him aggressively about whether his ties to Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich are more extensive than ...
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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thinkprogress.org —
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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Eric Holder Grilled
Taylor Marsh —
... According to Holder, "waterboarding is torture." Calls for prosecutions will continue, though if Democrats aren’t going to go after Bush and Cheney I still don’t understand the ethics of putting others in the crosshairs.
Specter went at Holder hard on Marc Rich. The committee is on break, but you can watch it online at C-SPAN 3.
The L.A. Times reports Blagojevich will also be an avenue Republicans exploit.
In other related news to this hearing, according to Eric Lichtbau, an intelligence court will rule that wiretapping is legal even ...
The Early Word: The Confirmation Circuit
The Caucus —
... ability to reverse eight years of what they see as abuses of power in the administration’s campaign against terrorism. Republicans appear just as determined to use the hearing to retry the transgressions of the Clinton administration, with Mr. Holder pressed to explain his involvement as deputy attorney general in controversies like the pardon of the fugitive financier Marc Rich and Vice President Al Gore’s 1996 fund-raiser at a Buddhist temple. And the Los Angeles Times’s Josh Meyer reports that Mr. Holder is in for some tough questions on his ties to Illinois Gov. Rod R. ...
Eric Holder Confirmation Hearing: Live Updates (VIDEO)
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... of his role in President Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich; Clinton's sentence commutations for 16 members of a Puerto Rican terrorist group; and the failure to recommend an independent investigation of Democratic fundraising by Al Gore when he was vice president.
The Republican criticism followed statements by former White House political director Karl Rove that Republicans must question Holder closely.
The LA Times reports that the GOP also plans to use Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich against Holder:
As Eric H. ...
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The Boston Globe previews Holder’s confirmation hearing today. “The anticipated grilling of Holder … is the latest example of the polarization of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a powerful panel locked in a cycle of tit-for-tat partisan ...
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