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Attorney General Eric Holder Orders Probe into IRS Targeting Conservative Groups
(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder says he's ordered a Justice Department investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative...
Holder On The Hot Seat
Lawmakers take their best shots at the embattled Attorney General in today's House Judiciary Committee hearing
Scrambling To Find AP Leaker, Obama’s Administration Vindicates Bush
To judge from this week’s developments, we’re still accelerating in the direction set by George W. Bush after 9/11 towards a retrenchment of White House power...
Justice Investigating IRS Targeting of Tea Party
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department is opening a criminal investigation of the Internal Revenue Service just as another probe concludes that lax management...
Morning Must Reads
In the news: IRS, Eric Holder, the deficit, Boston Marathon bombings a month later, Pentagon furloughs, Texas gun laws, "Space Oddity"
Will the Boston Bomber Get the Death Penalty?
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s best hope of escaping death is to admit his guilt
Holder to Take Pay Cut
The Attorney General intends to take a pay cut equivalent to the maximum amount any Justice Department employee has to take as a result of the sequestration,...
Holder Urges Senators to Confront Gun Violence
(WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder is urging Congress to confront gun violence by requiring universal background checks, imposing tougher penalties on...
Rand Paul, John Brennan and the Exploding Cafe Scenario
Rand Paul, the libertarian Republican Senator from Kentucky, has spent the past several hours, with the help of a few GOP colleagues, leading an unexpected...
Senator Launches Lengthy Debate to Block CIA Pick
(WASHINGTON) — A Republican critic of the Obama administration's drone policy mounted a self-described filibuster Wednesday to block Senate confirmation of John...
Obama’s Cabinet Shuffle
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigns, while Attorney General Eric Holder, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, and Veterans Affairs Secretary...
Fast And Furious Report Destroys Right Wing Conspiracy Theories
For more than a year and a half, everyone from House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa to right-wing provocateurs on Fox News have been lobbing fiery...
House Republicans Cite Holder for Contempt, Seek to Link Obama to ‘Fast and Furious’
In an escalating partisan showdown sparked by a Congressional investigation into a botched gun-trafficking sting, House Republicans voted to hold U.S. Attorney...
How to Restore Communities Blighted by Subprime Loans
Soon a federal judge in California is likely to approve the “largest residential fair-lending settlement in history” ever reached by the Department of Justice in...
Will the Underwear Bomber’s Plea Unblock the Gitmo Trial Logjam?
Last week Omar Farouk Abdulmutallab pleaded guilty in a Michigan court to conspiring to blow up Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight 253 on Christmas Day 2009...
AG Holder to McConnell: Shut Up Already
Attorney General Eric Holder, the country's top cop, is getting pretty sick of members of the legislative branch telling him how to prosecute people. The latest...
Behind the Decision to Ask Bob Mueller to Stay at the FBI
Attorney General Eric Holder stunned Bob Mueller when he told the FBI director late last month that President Obama wanted him to stay on for two more years...
Eric Holder's Trials and Tribulations.
In January, when most of Attorney General Eric Holder's friends and enemies turned against his plan to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a federal...
