On Thursday, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against Texas over the state’s voter identification law, claiming that the law violated the Voting Rights Act, the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and the 15th Amendment to the Constitution.
This weeks “misguided” lawsuit filed by the Obama administration in an attempt to block the American Airlines-US Airways merger is nothing less than “misguided” and questionable, since even the pilots and other airline-related unions are in favor of the merger.
With a struggling economy and government debt piling up, President Obama promised to look at the budget line by line. Well, I’ve got a few lines he can examine. How about starting with the taxpayer-funded personal junkets taken by Obama
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry would have celebrated his 43rd birthday this week. He was a hero and former Marine, but more importantly he was an American, son, brother, and uncle who is missed everyday. Terry lost his life on December
Last year, former Newsweek veteran reporter Peter Boyer and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer wrote a much-discussed article highlighting Attorney General Eric Holder’s unwillingness to prosecute a single senior executive of any major financial services institution in the wake
According to a report from Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, nearly 1/3 of the immigrants making asylum claims last year who were released on bond or their own recognizance never even bothered to appear in immigration court. The Executive Office for
CSPAN: Attorney General Eric Holder addresses the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco where he discusses drug offenses and mandatory prison sentences. Founded in 1878, the national association of lawyers includes 410,000 members.
Last week, the Obama Administration continued to lay down a smoke screen to hide its negligence when it comes to investigating the criminal acts which caused the subprime crisis. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice announced
Attorney General Eric Holder has just announced an end-run around Congress and given the far left one of its priority action-items, announcing he will not prosecute drug crimes unconnected to gangs or violence. Ironically, he invoked the conservative principle of
On Wednesday, America’s biggest bank by assets, J.P. Morgan, revealed that it is under federal criminal and civil investigation for actions involving mortgage-backed securities. In May, the Department of Justice (DOJ) informed J.P. Morgan that its civil division had preliminarily
James Risen of The New York Times insists that he shouldn’t have to testify in the upcoming CIA leak trial, not just because as a reporter he shouldn’t have to reveal his sources, but also because of the Attorney General’s
According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom Of Information Act , the travel expenses of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder have exceeded $4 million for 213 separate trips he took between March 27, 2009, and August 24, 2012.
Attorney General Eric Holder has been caught spending more than $4 million of taxpayer cash on extravagant travel over the past four years, according to documents uncovered by watchdog group Judicial Watch. In total, Holder accrued $4,263,704.01 in travel expenses between
A House Republican committee report released Wednesday found that Attorney General Eric Holder misled Congress in May after he said that he had not been involved in any potential prosecution of media members. Holder made those comments after directly signing
Al Sharpton claims he has briefed Barack Obama, Eric Holder, and Hillary Clinton on the Supreme Court’s recent Voting Rights Act decision. The MSNBC host took to the Huffington Post to criticize Bill O’Reilly for speaking out against black on
Civil rights activists meeting with Barack Obama and Eric Holder at the White House on Monday emerged delighted with promises made to them to counter the action of the Supreme Court in June striking down the coverage formula in Section
The Obama administration has put pressure on a southern California school district to settle a federal civil rights complaint brought by the parents of an incoming high school freshman who is anatomically female, but claims her identity is male. Her
By PAUL J. WEBER and MICHAEL BIESECKERAssociated PressAUSTIN, TexasNew efforts by the Obama administration to put Texas back under voting rights laws knocked down by the Supreme Court has other states waiting to see if they’re next. The Justice Department
(AP) US says it won’t seek death penalty for SnowdenWASHINGTONAttorney General Eric Holder has told the Russian government that the U.S. will not seek the death penalty for former National Security Agency systems analyst Edward Snowden. In a letter dated
Attorney General Eric Holder has launched a war against Texas, and in doing so is defying the Supreme Court of the United States. The imminent judicial beat-down of Holder highlights that this case is not about the rule of law
On the heels of news that Attorney General Eric Holder and the DOJ will not give George Zimmerman his gun back anytime soon, the Buckeye Firearms Foundation is raising funds to buy Zimmerman a new one. The Foundation posted the following
In response to It’s Deja Vu All Over Again With Obama’s Trayvon Speech: In all fairness, the President did make a few oblique references to crime problems in the black community, although it was very understated compared to his race-baiting
In a letter from the ACLU to Attorney General Eric Holder: We are writing to clearly state the ACLU’s position on whether or not the Department of Justice (DOJ) should consider bringing federal civil rights or hate crimes charges as
Obama’s recent comments on the George Zimmerman verdict expose once and for all the radical worldview that lies beneath the Obama agenda. In speculating that the Zimmerman verdict might have been different if Trayvon Martin had been white, Obama revealed
Not every liberal journalist was brought to tears over the President’s belated statement on the George Zimmerman verdict. Columnist Rich Benjamin at Salon.com called the effort “safe, over-rated and airy” and compared it unfavorably to Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent
