thenation.com - 11/19/2008
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Quick! Name the veteran Department of Justice insider who, shortly after the USA Patriot Act was signed into law and at a point when the Bush administration was proposing to further erode barriers to governmental abuses, argued that dissenters should not be tolerated? Who invoked September 11, ...
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:
thinkprogress.org - 11/22/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
holder.jpg The New York Times reports today that
President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team “signaled to Eric H.
Holder Jr., a senior official in the Justice Department in the Clinton administration, that he will be chosen as attorney general .” ...
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Eric Holder: A Rebuke Of Bush-League Justice
campaignspot.nationalreview.com - 11/21/2008
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campaignspot.nationalreview.com —
Back in 1998, when testifying before Congress about
the need for a federal hate crimes law, then
Deputy-Attorney General Eric Holder was asked for amp... . . .
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A Good Question For Eric Holder
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Eric Holder? Watch what he said, watch what he did:
Appearing on CNN in June, 2002, the former Clinton administration Justice Department aide sounded as if he had just stepped out of the Bush camp: “We’re dealing with a different world now. Everybody should remember those pictures that we saw on September the 11th. The World Trade Centers aflame, the pictures of the Pentagon, and any time some petty bureaucrat decides that his or her little piece of turf is being invaded, get rid of that person. Those are the ...
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... disqualifying. It used to be that people didn't pay the taxes on their maid's or nanny's income. Presumably everyone learned to take care of that, so now it might be something else. Not saying any of this applies to Holder of course; rather, that the picayune is bound to ensare someone or other.
But if Holder it be, he will need Herculean fortitude to clean out the sewage that has polluted the Justice Department in the Bush years.
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Quick! Name the veteran Department of Justice insider who, ...
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blogs.tnr.com 11/19/2008 —
Eric Holder looks like Obama's pick
for attorney general. I've been impressed by him ever since interviewing
him in the '90s, when he was U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and
identified the phenomenon of the single ...
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FOXNews.com 11/18/2008
Eric Holder, being vetted by President-elect Obama's transition team for attorney general, has previously been tapped for federal service by Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton
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