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Holder: DOJ only going after people ‘taking advantage’ of pot laws
Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday denied that the Dept. of Justice (DOJ) was trying to shut down all legal medical marijuana in the U.S. Holder told the House Judiciary Committee that critics who charged the that Obama administration was abusing its authority with an aggressive campaign against the medical…
Fox News host suggests Holder ‘inciting racism’ to ‘boost minority turnout’
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on Monday suggested that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was “inciting racism” in a effort to get more minorities to vote for President Barack Obama. Kilmeade noted on Monday that the state of Florida had vowed to defy a Justice Department order to halt a…
About As Evil As It Possibly Gets
And the Wall Street Journal goes there, accusing AG Eric Holder’s crusade to combat voter suppression of minorities as being nothing more than “racial incitement”. The United States of America has a black President whose chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder, is also black. They have a lot…
Holder: Minority rights under threat from voter ID laws
The US attorney general, Eric Holder, has warned that gains of the civil rights struggle hang in the balance in the face of a determined effort by many states to roll back laws ensuring the right to vote. Holder told a Washington conference on Wednesday that there is a “growing…
Republicans threaten to hold Attorney General Holder in contempt
Attorney General Eric Holder could soon be declared in contempt of Congress, if House Republicans have their way. Led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Republicans told The Los Angeles Times on Friday that they have been stonewalled by the Department…
Romney claims that ‘you can get a photo ID free’ for voting
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney asserted Tuesday that photo IDs were free to all voters and that Attorney General Eric Holder had made a “very serious error” by blocking a South Carolina law that requires an ID to vote. In blocking the South Carolina law Friday, the Justice Department said…
Mitt Romney demands firing of AG Eric Holder
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney flexed his campaign’s organizational muscle in the key early voting state of New Hampshire on Saturday, unleashing hundreds of volunteers to knock on doors and make phone calls on his behalf. The former Massachusetts governor also criticized the attorney general,…
Because woah
Obviously, the big stunning news that wasn’t really expected but is totally welcome today is the Obama administration announcing that they believe the Defense of Marriage Act—signed by the last Democratic President, Bill Clinton—is unconstitutional, and therefore they’re not going to enforce it any more. Attorney General Eric Holder said…
Reading and misreading Eric Holder’s call to discuss race
I was on the Mike Signorile Show today and we discussed recent comments made by Attorney General Eric Holder at an event at the Justice Department in honor of Black History Month: Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have…
Take Responsibility
Last night on Hardball, I watched Pat Buchanan take on Michael Eric Dyson on Eric Holder’s comments about America’s cowardice in terms of discussing race. First, what Holder said was true. Second, watching that show was like watching a ferret take on a uncovered table fan. Jonah Goldberg’s take is…
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