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dailykos.com - 1/9/2009
Specter and Grassley double team Holder
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It looks like Arlen Specter is emerging as the point man for Republican efforts to take President-elect Obama "down a peg," by stymying the confirmation of Eric Holder as Attorney General. Speaking from the Senate floor on Tuesday, Specter, who had previously said he had "not taken any ...

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Think Progress:  Former Pardon Attorney Who Was Transferred For Racist Remark Now Critical Of Holder

latimes.com - 1/9/2009
Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency - Los Angeles Times
— 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 ... (more) Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency - Los ...

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thehill.com - 1/12/2009
Sen. Hatch to back Eric Holder for AG
— 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, ... (more) Sen. Hatch to back Eric Holder for AG

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judiciary.senate.gov - 1/12/2009
Committee Members
— judiciary.senate.gov — Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania SpecterThumb Arlen Specter (R) was elected to the Senate in 1980 from the state of Pennsylvania. He is a former Chairman and the current ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee. He is a graduate of the ... (more) Committee Members

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Former Pardon Attorney Who Was Transferred For Racist Remark Now Critical Of Holder
Think Progress — ... ” on President-elect Obama’s Attorney General Designate Eric Holder. Specter argued that Holder’s role in several pardons at the end of the Clinton Administration call into question his “character.” The AP explained what may be the real motives behind that attack, writing, “Holder is the ...

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