The latest twist to the ever-evolving IRS political targeting scandal, which began over a year ago now, would have been even bigger news this week were it not for the ISIS terrorist threat. A top spokesman for Attorney General Eric
Friday at the Hispanic National Bar Association’s 39th annual convention, Attorney General Eric Holder announced grants for “Justice AmeriCorps” to provide legal services for the tens of thousands of unaccompanied children who flooded across the United States-Mexico border this summer
In response to Justice Dept. Watchdog Says DOJ Is Impeding Investigations: The DOJ inspector general complaining about the stonewalls littering his department makes a lovely companion piece to the black comedy of Attorney General Eric Holder’s aide Brian Fallon trying
A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa’s staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about the IRS scandal, Issa said in a September 8 letter to
US Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that the Department of Justice is still probing the death of Trayvon Martin, even saying there have been “recent” developments in the investigation of the 2012 shooting of the Florida teen. It appears that
Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a “federal civil rights investigation” into not only the Ferguson, MO police department’s response to the two weeks of civil unrest following officer Darren Wilson’s August 9, shooting of Michael Brown, but also
One of the major conservative criticisms of President Barack Obama’s decision, early in his presidency, to release secret memoranda about interrogation techniques used against terrorists was that the president–and Attorney General Eric Holder, who threatened prosecutions of intelligence officials–were giving
Israeli civil rights attorney, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Assistant AG Leslie Caldwell, requesting the Department of Justice extradite Hamas West Bank commander, Saleh al-Arouri, for his role in the kidnapping and murder
Attorney General Eric Holder travelled to Ferguson, Missouri, Wednesday to personally intervene in the investigation of the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unprecedented and highly questionable move. In a column published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Holder claimed that
Despite surveillance video that allegedly shows Michael Brown robbing a convenience store and violently shoving a store clerk into a rack, his parents state that there is nothing to suggest that Brown had an “aggressive temperament.” His mother, Lesley McSpadden, and
In June, a flurry of press coverage in Western New York reported on the close relationship between District Attorney William Hochul and local Muslim leader Dr. Khalid Qazi. Vows of mutual respect and support were exchanged between Hochul and Qazi,
“I understand the mistrust… I am the attorney general of the United States. But I am also a black man.”-AG Eric Holder Seems like Holder has joined the ranks of Sharpton and Jackson, in trying to make the unfortunate shooting
On Wednesday, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a news conference in Washington that he and the Department of Justice stand with the people of Ferguson. He added, “I went to Ferguson to provide reassurance; in fact they gave me
On August 20, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the Department of Justice to “produce non-privileged documents” related to Fast and Furious and provide “a detailed list of privileged documents” which have been withheld from Congress. The non-privileged documents
When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder arrived in Ferguson, Missouri to investigate the controversial shooting incident between a city policeman and a black teen, he said he was both the highest law officer of the nation “and a black man.”
In response to Indictment, Arrest, Mugshot: Rick Perry’s Finest Moment: Yes, Perry is shining bright today, but is it too early to call him the 2016 GOP presidential frontrunner? Probably, but Perry should be able to milk every single possible
Conventional wisdom holds that whatever presidential ambitions Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) may still hold have been destroyed with his indictment by a grand jury on charges that he abused his power. Sure, the charges are trumped-up, and have been
Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to use Michael Brown’s death and the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, to push for more police diversity and even combat unintentional “disparate treatment under the law” of minorities. In an op-ed in the St. Louis
Militarization of police forces has become the latest buzz phrase for politicians, pundits, and, it seems, everybody else. By now everybody in America, and probably well across the world, knows about, and has a theory about, the riots and looting
Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt cautioned against the federal government taking over the investigation into the death of Michael Brown. “I’ve thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important,” Blunt said
Chinese hackers allegedly stole 4.5 million patient records from the Community Health Systems (CHS), which works with 206 hospitals in 29 states. They acquired sensitive information that could be used to steal identities such as names, social security numbers, phone
WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling for understanding in the face of racially charged anger, President Barack Obama said Monday that the vast majority of protesters in a St. Louis suburb were peaceful, but warned that a small minority was undermining justice
President Barack Obama declined to answer whether he would go to Ferguson, Missouri, after announcing that Attorney General Eric Holder would travel there Wednesday. At a White House press conference Monday, Ann Compton, who will be retiring from ABC News
The Justice Department under Eric Holder has issued a press release detailing its “civil rights investigation” in Ferguson. Among the revelations is that over 40 FBI agents are conducting an independent investigation of the scene of Michael Brown’s death: Attorney
Monday from the Brady Press Briefing Room, President Barack Obama called for calm from protesters and rioters in Ferguson, MO, saying, “Let’s seek to heal, rather than to wound each other,” and added we need to “unite as one America
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Details from the official autopsy of Michael Brown began to seep out just hours after the release of a privately conducted autopsy, revealing that the toxicology report found marijuana in Brown’s system when he died.
In response to Holder DOJ Behind the Suppression of Michael Brown Robbery Video : I find this whole idea of suppressing the truth because it might be “inflammatory” to be incredibly offensive, not to mention obviously ineffectual. The people who
While vacationing at Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama, Eric Holder, and Valerie Jarrett have been monitoring the continuing uproar in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of local police. But as Obama returned to the
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered a federal autopsy in the Missouri shooting case of Ferguson teen Michael Brown, citing “extraordinary circumstances.” The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, told The Associated Press that funeral arrangements for 18-year-old
Saturday at the end of the chaotic press conference held by Missouri State Patrol and Gov. Jay Nixon to address the ongoing protests and riots that have erupted throughout Ferguson in reaction to the police fatally shooting Michael Brown, Rep.
On Friday, minutes after the Ferguson, Missouri, police department released the name of the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, Missouri Lieutenant Gov. Peter Kinder (R) said it is a “fair question” to ask why it took the police
DALLAS, Texas — Room 1060 at the Earl Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas was the most compassionate place on earth, Monday, August 11, for minors who were in the various stages of the legal process for “Hearings on Removal
Attorney General Eric Holder criticized police forces for deploying military equipment and arresting journalists as riots continue to escalate in Ferguson, Missouri in response to the death of Michael Brown. Holder also criticized the violent protestors who were escalating the
Thursday, interrupting his family vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, MA, President Barack Obama called for everyone to take a “step back” after a fifth night of civil unrest and protests over the shooting death of an unarmed teenager Michael Brown in
U.S. civil rights advocates aired their concerns about the recent Michael Brown shooting to the United Nations in Geneva, according to a press call from the organizations on Wednesday. According to Shelton, Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton and Jordan Davis’s
HOUSTON, Texas — The feds have released more than 30,000 unaccompanied minors, all of whom entered the U.S. illegally, in various states around the nation. Assuming that most of these children will not be immediately deported, U.S. public schools be
We’ve all heard the left’s (especially the Obama administration’s) tired “race-baiting” argument against voter integrity measures — ad nauseum. For example, if measures are put into place to require identification before casting a vote, the story goes, minority voters will be
In an interview with Juan Williams, Attorney General Eric Holder said he is, indeed, an activist attorney general and proud of it. “If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,” said Holder.
The death of Eric Garner, 43, who died in police custody on Staten Island on July 17, has been ruled a homicide by the city’s medical examiner. The examiner said a chokehold that compressed Garner’s neck and chest while he
Attorney General Eric Holder believes President Barack Obama has shown restraint in his use of executive actions. In an interview with Time, Holder, who previously could not explain whether the Constitution enabled some of Obama’s bolder executive actions, claimed Obama
