Vanasco: Who’s next on the Supreme Court?
The Daily Beast has the top contenders (though of course, no one actually knows). The Beast names Eric Holder, Diane Wood, Elena Kagan, Cass Sunstein,
I’d love the next choice to be Cass Sunstein (a well-regarded Constitutional law scholar and creative thinker who can explain law to the masses – as …
AG Holder urges new hate crimes law
(Washington) Citing recent killings in Arkansas, Kansas and the nation’s capital, Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday said new hate crimes law were needed to stop what he called “violence masquerading as political activism.”
The attorney general’s call for Congress to act came as a civil rights coalition said there has …
Holder confirmed as attorney general
(Washington) The Senate has voted 75-21 to confirm Eric Holder as the first African-American attorney general.
Holder also is the only African-American currently in President Barack Obama’s Cabinet. He had strong bipartisan support in Monday’s vote, plus he has the approval of major LGBT groups.
Holder previously served in the Clinton administration. …
Senate committee OKs holder for AG
(Washington) Eric Holder’s nomination as the first African-American attorney general moved to the full Senate on Wednesday with broad bipartisan support, as Republicans who earlier criticized the nominee determined he was well qualified for the job.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 17-2 to favorably recommend Holder for the post.
The only senators …
GOP Behaving Poorly: GOP Delaying Holder Confirmation Over Torture – want him to promise not to go after Bushies
Senate Republicans hope to delay a vote on the confirmation of Eric Holder to become attorney general in order to pressure him to say whether he will prosecute intelligence agents for torture if they were following orders and acting within what they believed to be legal guidelines.
Holder told the Judiciary Committee last week that waterboarding is “torture” and therefore illegal. Susan J. Crawford, the top Bush administration official overseeing the trials of detainees, told the Washington Post that at least one individual held at the prison center at Guantanamo Bay was “tortured.”
The question Republicans want answered before Holder is confirmed: Will you prosecute those who took part in that torture?
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Major gay organization rallies behind Attorney General nominee Holder
As the Senate considers his confirmation, the nation’s largest LGBT civil rights organization has put its voice behind Eric Holder Jr. as the nation’s next Attorney General.
“As a community that is particularly vulnerable to bias-motivated violence,” Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese wrote to the Senate on Tuesday, “the LGBT community supports the appointment of an Attorney General who is committed to combating this national problem.”
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Holder grilled, Clinton advances
(Washington) Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr. faced tough questioning Thursday by the Senate Justice Committee over his role in the pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich during the waning days of the Clinton Presidency.
Holder at the time of the pardon was Deputy Attorney General. Rich was an arms dealer who …
GOP threatens Obama AG pick; Pressure mounts for gay Commerce Sec.
(Washington) As one LGBT political group presses for the appointment of a gay man to replace Commerce Secretary-nominee Bill Richardson, another is coming to the defense of Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder Jr.
Holder goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee Jan. 15. For conservative Republicans, he is the liberal face of nominees to …
