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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder originally said that some 600,000 Texans lacked a voter I.D. and therefore would be disenfranchised by the Texas voter I.D. law.  The Department Of Justice’s lawyers have suddenly upped that number greatly, now claiming that

Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the left-wing Hispanic advocacy group, La Raza, last weekend and continued the Obama’s administration strategy of trying to convince and scare minorities into believing that Republicans would take away their civil rights. Immigration and voter

Five people have been charged with the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.  The Department of Justice is offering a $1 million reward for any information that leads to the arrest of four of them. Agent Terry was shot

A poll by CNN/ORC International found that 53% of Americans approve of the contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder. Last month, the House voted to hold Mr. Holder in contempt of Congress for not turning over documents pertaining to

The Department of Justice has been waging a battle against Texas’photo ID voting law since last July. That battle became more openlypartisan this week when it was revealed that the DOJ hired a progressivevoter data firm called Catalist to supplement

Senator Charles Grassley wants answers from Attorney General Eric Holder about a memo that provides evidence of deliberate lies from the DOJ. On February 2, Senator Grassley’s investigators talked to Agent Gary Styers about his knowledge of Operation Fast &

(AP) AG says GOP using him as ‘proxy’ to attack ObamaWASHINGTONAttorney General Eric Holder is charging that he’s become a “proxy” for Republican attacks against President Barack Obama in an election year. Holder tells The Washington Post that Republican congressional

Attorney General Eric Holder is in big trouble! So once again the Old Media must swoop in to the rescue. First it was Charlie Savage at the New York Times back in December. Tonight it is Sari Horwitz at the

Last month Rep. Sandy Adams of Florida sent a letter to AttorneyGeneral Eric Holder asking him to look into the SWAT-ting ofconservative bloggers. Eighty-six other members of Congress co-signedthe letter (all of them Republicans) but so far there has been

A protest calling for the firing of Attorney General Eric Holder in front of the White House was called off early by the Secret Service. Matthew Boyle at The Daily Caller said agents found an abandoned backpack calling it a

One day after the historic vote that held Attorney General Eric Holder to be in criminal contempt of Congress, Darrell Issa (R-CA) revealed details of secret wiretap applications from the Justice Department that implicates them even more in the “Fast

While Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress, it was a bittersweet day for the family of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. The disrespect the Democrats showed Agent Terry was appalling, including the Congressional Black Caucus

Democrat Leader James Clyburn reacts to Congress holding AG Eric Holder in contempt.

The White House on Thursday condemned an unprecendented House of Representatives contempt vote against Attorney General Eric Holder as a “transparently political stunt.”

The House of Representatives, in a historic move, has voted Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failure to produce subpoenaed documents in the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious. The vote tallies were 255 yeas, 67 nays,

In their latest display of political ineptitude, House Republicans today held the contempt vote for Attorney General Eric Holder over his failure to turn over documents in the Fast and Furious scandal. They could not have picked a worse time

Brian Terry’s family claims the family’s lifelong congressman, John Dingell, has abandoned them. They’re upset he invoked Agent Terry’s name to make a case against holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt today, while talking to Politico earlier this week.

The Congressional Black Caucus plans to walk out of the House tomorrow when the contempt-of-Congress vote on Attorney General Eric Holder is taken. Apparently, they have scheduled a meeting at 10 a.m. to discuss the walkout and urge other Democrats

Operation Fast & Furious was a program in which the ATF pressured gun shop owners to sell guns to straw purchasers, knowing there was a high probability they’d land in the hands of drug cartels. They made no effort to

Picket: Rep. Mike McIntyre, North Carolina Democrat, said on Wednesday he would “probably vote for” contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday. Other Democrats are expected to vote for contempt charges against AG Holder for the Attorney General’s

I challenge everyone in this country to go one day without breaking the law. The obvious tests would be not to exceed the speed limit, grab a single grape and pop it in your mouth at the market, or log

Democrat Utah Representative Jim Matheson broke ranks and will vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt. Mr. Holder has refused to cooperate with the Oversight Committee on Operation Fast & Furious. “It just compounds the tragedy when both

As the U.S. House of Representatives votes to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, the natural question becomes: now what? Legal precedent lays out a step-by-step process, and Holder’s latest gambit suggests he knows of a loophole

On June 6, I wrote about a New York Times article on a “highly classified” operation begun under George W. Bush but “significantly expanded” and continued under Barack Obama. The operation was one of cyber warfare, and one of its principal targets was

FOX NEWS: GOP senators are putting the pressure on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special counsel to investigate whether the White House is responsible for national security leaks.

Arizona has suffered during Attorney General Eric Holder’s time in office. Besides the fact that the straw purchasing aspect of Operation Fast & Furious took place in Phoenix, the guns illegally purchased flooded the southern portion of the state on

Congresswoman Sandy Adams (R) FL-24 released a statement this evening in response to today’s swatting of blogger Aaron Walker: With the increase in these dangerous incidents, it is clear that our citizens and law enforcement officers are at risk. I

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi stepped into the fringes of political thought with her recent assertion that the Republican investigation into the growing Fast and Furious scandal is somehow motivated by a desire to suppress voter turnout.  If

Darrell Issa, the Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Sunday that next week there will be a floor vote holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, and, quite surprisingly, it will be a bipartisan effort. “I

I like to get to the heart of the matter, so I will use this column to ask one question of  President Barack Obama. Who authorized Fast and Furious? Since no answer will be given, I will rhetorically ask a

At a recent Obama rally in Ohio, prospective attendees were told to brandish their photo IDs if they expected admittance to the rally. No word yet on whether Attorney General Eric Holder plans to file suit against the Obama campaign

Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post predictably joins the chorus of voices on the left excusing President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder for their coverup of Operation Fast & Furious. He starts his piece with a popular liberal talking

Eric Holder has now tried to retract a statement he made that his predecessor Michael Mukasey, the Attorney General under George W. Bush, knew about gunwalking in the Fast and Furious scandal and did nothing to stop it.  Holder claims

AP-Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi decried a house panel’s vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress saying it was a frivolous use of the power

MSNBC’s Al Sharpton says Attorney General Eric Holder has been ‘Stopped and Frisked’ by the House holding him in contempt