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In an recent interview, US Attorney General Eric Holder expressed his pleasure at Chicago Bulls player Derrick Rose for wearing a t-shirt with the phrase “I Can’t Breathe” emblazoned across it on the court last week. Rose was joined by

In an wide-ranging interview with Fusion/Univision anchor Jorge Ramos given in Nashville, TN that aired earlier this week, President Barack Obama discussed the state of race relations in the United States, given the recent circumstances created by the legal processes

Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke (D) said that he was “insulted” by comments on racial profiling by police officers made “out of line” Attorney General Eric Holder on Saturday’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” on the Fox News Channel.  “He’s [Holder]

Hans von Spakovsky, writing in The National Interest, makes a powerful case that Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have endangered the criminal justice system in their response to the Ferguson grand jury’s verdict.  Spakovsky writes, “Perhaps the biggest

Wednesday, in reacting to the news that a grand jury declined to indict the New York City Police Officer involved in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a federal investigation. Transcript as follows: Good evening.

Best case scenario for holding Michael Brown in some kind of moderate regard is that he and his buddy are walking down the middle of the street when officer Darren Wilson encounters them. Officer Wilson has no idea someone matching

According to Breitbart Texas’s managing editor Brandon Darby, the Ferguson protests and riots have been a roaring success for the institutional left. He told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that in Ferguson and across the nation, the institutional

Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments” argued that President Obama’s summit on the events in Ferguson was more about promoting leftism than about helping people in the inner city on Monday. Levin accused President Obama of ignoring

Monday, President Barack Obama announced a new executive order and task force to address the protests and riots across America in response to the Missouri grand jury decided not bring charges against former Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson for fatally

On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder will travel to Atlanta to kick off a series of events with community activists and police officers nationwide to discuss their relationship after the Ferguson shooting.  According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “Holder has been

On Monday evening, Attorney General Eric Holder told activists and law enforcement officials in Atlanta that Ferguson presents an opportunity to deal with issues like racial injustice and the perception that police treat minorities unfairly before announcing that new federal

On Monday evening, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder appeared at the pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, to announce that the U.S. Department of Justice was launching a plan to “target racial profiling” across the nation. But Holder

On Thursday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel, former Rep. Allen West (R-FL) slammed President Barack Obama and outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder for the double standard applied to black-on-white crime versus white-on-black incidents, in particular

Governor Jerry Brown has named Leondra Kruger, a former deputy assistant attorney general with the Obama administration, to replace California’s longest-serving Supreme Court justice, Joyce L. Kennard.  Kruger is a Los Angeles native and a Democrat like Brown. The announcement

Tuesday in reaction to the grand jury announcement that Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson will not face charges for fatally shooting Michael Brown and the ensuing riots and protests throughout the night, Attorney General Eric Holder emphasize that “we have

Niger Innis, Executive Director of TheTeaParty.net and National Spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, declared President Obama the “most racially divisive and divisive president that we have had since Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the federal offices across the country” on

From Mark Levin’s Facebook page: Ferguson burns and violence has been unleashed thanks to the reckless liberal media, the lawless administration (especially Eric Holder) exploiting the shooting to smear police departments across the nation, phony civil rights demagogues, race-baiting politicians,

A Missouri Democratic congressman says the concerns he’s had from the outset about the local investigation into the death of Michael Brown Jr. were realized Monday evening. “From the beginning of this tragic case, I have repeatedly expressed my grave

Tuesday at Copernicus Community Center in Chicago, IL, President Barack Obama addressed the riots and protests going on throughout the country in reaction to the grand jury announcement that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will not face charges for the

On Monday night, a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri declined to indict Officer Darren Wilson over the shooting of 19-year-old Michael Brown, because both the physical and eyewitness evidence concluded that Wilson was acting in self-defense, which supported his case. 

Speaking in Chicago on Tuesday, President Obama addressed the rioting that occurred in Ferguson as people reacted to the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown shooting. Obama admitted that the decision “upset a lot of people” but pointed out

Attorney General Eric Holder asserted that the Justice Department was not finished with the shooting of Michael Brown, after the grand jury in Ferguson did not indict Officer Darren Wilson. “While the grand jury proceeding in St. Louis County has

Missouri Director of Public Safety Dan Isom told reporters on Friday afternoon that part of local law enforcement’s instruction during the past 100 days was sensitivity training. The information was revealed at a St. Louis Mayor presser discussing how law

While voter identification is a technical requirement in New Hampshire, the law is riddled with loopholes that threaten to render it ineffective as any sort of check on fraud. That’s what a team of Judicial Watch attorneys and volunteer observers,

On November 14, federal prosecutors made it clear that Attorney General Eric Holder has “taken the death penalty off the table” for four men charged in the gang-related murder of Waynesboro, Virginia, police officer, Captain Kevin Quick. The Daily Progress

Congressman Lacy Clay (D-MO), whose district covers both the county and city of St. Louis, told Breitbart News on Wednesday that he is not speculating about the upcoming grand jury indictment decision regarding the August police shooting death of 18-year-old

Loretta Lynch, President Barack Obama’s choice to replace Eric Holder as Attorney General, would likely sail through confirmation hearings under normal circumstances–i.e. even when Democrats had not gutted the filibuster rule in a cynical act of partisanship, and when the

Conservative activist James O’Keefe is back with another video that should frighten legal voters in North Carolina. His latest project shows how easy it would be to obtain a fraudulent ballot when a state does not require an ID at

No reform is more necessary for the integrity of the electoral process – and none has been subjected to more savage and disingenuous attacks — than voter ID laws. Of all these, the most outrageous is the charge that voter

Judicial Watch has finally forced the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide a detailed listing of all the records it has withheld from Congress and the American people about the deadly Operation Fast and Furious scandal and its cover-up.

Talk radio host and author of “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin argued that Attorney General Eric Holder should be held accountable for inflaming tensions in Ferguson on Thursday. “Wow will Eric Holder held to account, how will he be held

On October 23, Judicial Watch announced it received a “Vaughn index” for records the Department of Justice has withheld from Congress regarding Operation Fast and Furious. Contained in the index details are evidence that Obama asserted executive privilege for Attorney

You can be a business owner who is on the right side of the law, but that may not matter in 21st Century America if you’re a business owner who on the wrong side of someone else’s political agenda. That

Attorney General Eric Holder said that his biggest failure during his time as head of the Justice Department was failing to pass expanded gun control laws and criticized former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for his negative characterizations of the president