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Holder and Issa meet on Operation Fast and Furious
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder wants a House panel to drop plans to try to hold him in contempt of Congress, and the panel’s chairman wants more Justice Department documents regarding...
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Congressional committee could hold Holder in contempt today
WASHINGTON (AP) — A House committee is poised to vote on whether to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over more Justice Department documents on a flawed...
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House committee holds Eric Holder in contempt
WASHINGTON (AP) — Setting up a potential constitutional confrontation, a Republican-controlled House panel voted Wednesday to cite Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt of Congress, just hours...
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GOP, Holder open to talks before contempt vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Both House Republican officials and Attorney General Eric Holder say they’re willing to negotiate an end to a potential constitutional confrontation in a dispute related to the...
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Black Republicans Herman Cain and Ken Blackwell team up to attack Eric Holder
Buzzfeed reports Republicans Herman Cain and Ken Blackwell released a video attacking Attorney General Eric Holder for his position on voter ID laws. The two stood in front of iconic imagery and video...
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Republicans not backing down on Holder contempt vote
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barring a last-minute deal, House Republicans plan historic votes Thursday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in civil and criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over...
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House votes to hold Eric Holder in contempt
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a precedent-setting resolution to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress. It was the first time a sitting Cabinet member has been...
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Justice Department won’t prosecute Eric Holder for contempt
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress does not constitute...
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Eric Holder says he is a ‘proxy’ for election year attacks on Obama
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney 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...
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Eric Holder to speak at NAACP convention in Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is scheduled to speak at the NAACP convention in Houston. That’s as the group launches a battle against voter ID laws that they contend will reverse...
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Eric Holder calls voter ID a modern ‘poll tax’ at NAACP convention
HOUSTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he opposes a new photo ID requirement in Texas elections because it would be harmful to minority voters. In remarks to the NAACP in Houston, the...
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Eric Holder: Barack Obama’s ‘secret weapon’ with black voters?
This nation’s first African-American attorney general exists in the historical shadow of this nation’s first black president, but Eric Holder has established himself as one of the most racially...
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Rick Perry: Eric Holder’s voter ID comments an attempt to incite racial tension
Eric Holder’s remarks last week that voter ID laws are a modern-day version of a poll tax are receiving criticism from Texas governor Rick Perry. The Huffington Post reports that Perry has asked...
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Eric Holder to announce New Orleans police reforms
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police Department on Tuesday that are some of the broadest and strictest ever...
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Attorney general Eric Holder meets Tucson shooting survivors
WASHINGTON (AP) — More than a dozen survivors and family members from the 2011 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have outlined for Attorney General Eric Holder...
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Investigation finds no evidence Eric Holder knew of ‘Fast and Furious’...
NBC NEWS – A long-awaited report on the U.S. government’s controversial gun-trafficking operation known as “Fast and Furious” released Wednesday found no evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder knew...
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Eric Holder unsure about 2nd term as Attorney General
Eric Holder made history four years ago by becoming the first African-American U.S. Attorney General in this nation’s history. His tenure has been marked by fierce battles with Congressional...
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Eric Holder to stay on as Attorney General
Eric Holder appears to have some gas left in the tank after announcing his plans to continue as the Attorney General under the Obama administration. theGrio: Attorney General Eric Holder meets Tucson...
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Former Attorney General Bill Baxley’s letter to the Ku Klux Klan goes viral
Former Attorney General of Alabama Bill Baxley wrote a short and direct letter to the Ku Klux Klan back in 1976 after receiving a threatening letter of protest from white supremacist Edward R. Fields,...
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Eric Holder: We need national standards for voting
POLITICS NATION - Attorney General Eric Holder said America’s election system needs to be made 'stronger and more accessible,' and defended the Justice Department’s challenges to restrictive voting...
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