On Thursday July 17, NRA Executive Director Chris Cox accused Attorney General Eric Holder of using Trayvon Martin’s death for the purposes of pushing more gun control, The Hill reports. Cox said Holder treats self-defense as a “concept” that can be
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLONAssociated PressLOS ANGELESAt least one person was injured and police made nine arrests when a protest over George Zimmerman’s Florida acquittal turned violent in Oakland. Newspapers report that a waiter guarding windows at a restaurant was hit
(AP) REDMOND, Wash.Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder calling on him to personally review a gag order that prevents the company and others from further discussing secret national security requests for customer emails, Skype
On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder was scheduled to speak to the NAACP convention in Orlando. There, his prepared remarks will call for an end to state “stand your ground” laws – laws that provide citizens with the ability to
Michael Eric Dyson: “So now we get more approximate to the truth of what race is in this country. As for Eric Holder, look: the reality is you gotta act now. The president, you won the second term. You’re in
The Department of Justice faces a very high hurdle if it gives into demands that George Zimmerman face federal criminal charges for violating Trayvon Martin’s civil rights. There are only two statutes which would apply in any federal criminal case,
(AP) AG calls Martin killing an ‘unnecessary shooting’By PETE YOSTAssociated PressWASHINGTONAttorney General Eric Holder on Monday called the killing of Trayvon Martin a “tragic, unnecessary shooting,” and said the Justice Department will follow “the facts and the law” as it
Yesterday, the Obama Department of Justice announced that it would pursue an investigation into George Zimmerman for federal civil rights offenses even though the FBI has already examined the case, and found that Zimmerman had “a little hero complex, but not
Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at the Washington Convention Center for a luncheon hosted by an African-American sorority. Holder told the crowd “I share your concern” with regard to the “unnecessary shooting death” of Trayvon Martin. Holder also reminded
Attorney General Eric Holder comments on the Trayvon Martin case
Like the racially-charged sham prosecution of the Duke lacrosse team, the racially charged prosecution of George Zimmerman was partly triggered by the threats of Malik Zulu Shabazz, the head of the racist and anti-Semitic New Black Panther Party. The New
(CNN) – Leaders at the nation’s oldest civil rights organization have spoken with senior members of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s team at the Justice Department about pursuing federal civil rights charges against George Zimmerman, NAACP president Ben Jealous said
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) said Friday that the resignation of President Barack Obama’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is not enough. He said Attorney General Eric Holder should step down too. “One down and one to go,” Gosar
Army Sgt. Alonzo Lunsford, who was shot 7 times during the 2009 Ft. Hood shooting, appeared on the Fox News network to talk about the murder trial of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the accused killer of 13 U.S. military
Much of the D.C. brain trust has concluded that the IRS targeting scandal doesn’t need a special counsel to do the investigating. The folks who are against the appointment of a special counsel, for whatever reason, are happy to allow
President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed on Wednesday to hold high-level meetings between U.S. and German security officials in the coming days to discuss revelations that the NSA bugged “the offices of the European Union and various embassies
Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler was responsible for exposing155 foreigners who possibly voted in U.S. elections, constituting a crime. However, a reporter from a local TV station,Eli Stokols, sourced a left-of-center political analyst forthe story rather than simply reporting
The father of Edward Snowden has offered the US a deal that he thinks would lead to the return of his son to the US. The proposal was revealed in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and obtained by
The American people are in an uproar over the revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) has gathered billions of phone and Internet records from millions of American citizens. In response, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has now
Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling striking down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was a loss for the Obama administration, which had used the Voting Rights Act to attack state voter ID laws, suggesting that they were racist.
The Department of Justice is treating the liberal activist who admitted to bugging one of Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s offices as a journalist, potentially delaying the speed at which it can investigate him for possibly violating federal anti-eavesdropping laws.
On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee explaining that he did not lie when he told the Committee that he had not been involved in any potential prosecution of journalists. Just days later,
Scant evidence exists that the favored liberal gun control measures have any impact on crime whatsoever. And, when you think about it, why should they, as the guns liberals want to control are virtually all owned by law-abiding, non-criminal members
In a recent oped at Fox News, Daniel Blomberg and Eric Rassbach argued that IRS has a long history of targeting that has focused mainly on houses of worship. It uses ‘the crushing power to deny or revoke the non-profit
