President-elect Barack Obama announced his national security team today, and the confirmation of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and Eric Holder as Attorney General made for spirited debate on tonight's edition of Hardball. Slate 's Christopher Hitchens and Salon 's Joan Walsh battled ...

President-elect Barack Obama announced his national security team today, and the confirmation of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State, and Eric Holder as Attorney General made for spirited debate on tonight's edition of Hardball. Slate 's Christopher Hitchens and Salon 's Joan Walsh battled ...

President-elect Obama introduced his national security team today. Pending Senate confirmation they will be: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates (already confirmed); Attorney General Eric Holder; National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones (Ret.) (confirmation ...

Dug from Upland: As discussed yesterday, I have a scan of the sworn declaration and will soon have the original. The Senate must ask questions in the confirmation hearings of Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton. NOTE: as explained in the video, the witness had made a typo in the amount of the ...

When the time comes for Eric Holder’s confirmation as attorney general, Pejman Yousefzadeh hopes his role in the controversial pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich comes up, claiming Holder was more directly involved in the pardon than most people think. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ...

Doug Ross received a sworn declaration from a confidential witness who is prepared to testify and should testify in the confirmation hearings of Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder. Click to Enlarge This could get interesting. Doug Ross has more on the witness.

I’m going to hope/assume that Eric Holder has changed his mind about the vital need for internet censorship relative to where he was ten years ago at a time when a lot of folks deemed the internet impossibly scary. One useful thing about confirmation hearings, though, is that you can ask ...

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said yesterday that the role of President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for Attorney General in several Clinton Administration controversies, "will be an issue," in the confirmation hearings. As a Deputy Attorney ...

Before nominating Eric Holder to be his attorney general, President-elect Barack Obama quietly asked key Senate Republicans if there would be any potential confirmation problems with Holder's nomination. Holder is his first cabinet pick and Obama wants to make sure that the pick will be hailed ...

Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), a member of the Judiciary Committee and a former state attorney general, had a "positive" reaction Wednesday to reports that Eric Holder will be nominated as the next U.S. Attorney General, but warned that the confirmation process on the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

On June 13, 1997, at age 46, Eric Holder was confirmed by the Senate as Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno. His confirmation hearing lasted two hours, pretty smooth sailing. The transcript is here . Some snippets, in his own words: On his objectives: First, to work with the attorney ...

So says Newsweek and MSNBC . But AP says the votes are still being counted for confirmation. So who is Holder? Read this excellent profile by American Lawyer. An excerpt: [I]n seven years at the firm Holder has become a sought-after attorney, with high-profile assignments from the National ...

Eric Holder, pardon-facilitator for deep-pocketed felons: The only hesitancy about Holder's selection was that he himself had reservations about going through a confirmation process that was likely to revive questions about his role in signing off on the controversial pardon...