volokh.com - 1/9/2009
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Eric Holder and the FALN Pardons: The LA Times reports that Eric Holder actively sought to blunt opposition to President Clinton's pardon of members of two pro-Puerto Rican independence terrorist groups. New interviews and an examination of previously undisclosed documents indicate that Holder ...
latimes.com - 1/9/2009
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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 ...
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Eric Holder pushed for controversial clemency - Los ...
thehill.com - 1/12/2009
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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, ...
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Sen. Hatch to back Eric Holder for AG
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BERNSTEIN/VOLOKH: The USSR's Role in the Middle East Goes Down the Memory Hole: One thing I find interesting in reading various authors who discuss the history of the Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Palestinian conflict is how the role of the USSR in exacerbating the conflict, and the role of its demise in providing an opportunity for a potential settlement of the conflict, is generally completely, or almost completely, ignored. ... while many question why Israel was unwilling to try to negotiate earlier with the PLO, ...
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