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Twitter Threatens To Sue Obama Administration Over Gov’t Surveillance Requests
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Twitter is prepared to sue the Obama administration for the right to disclose more detailed information on surveillance requests it receives from the government. A Thursday blog...
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Holder Calls On States To Restore Voting Rights To Ex-Felons
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder called on a group of states Tuesday to restore voting rights to ex-felons, part of a push to fix what he sees as flaws in the criminal justice system that...
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Holder: State Attorney Generals Not Obligated To Defend Same-Sex Marriage Bans
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that state attorneys general who believe that laws in their states banning same-sex marriage are discriminatory are not obligated to defend...
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Coalition Of Black Pastors Call For Holder Impeachment Over Same-Sex Marriage
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – A coalition of African-American civil rights leaders and pastors announced a campaign to gather 1 million signatures to impeach Attorney General Eric Holder for attempting to...
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Holder: Discriminatory Laws Don’t Need Defending
WASHINGTON — State attorneys general are not obligated to defend laws in their states banning same-sex marriage if the laws discriminate in a way forbidden by the Constitution, Attorney General Eric...
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Holder Hospitalized After Feeling Faint, Short Of Breath
WASHINGTON (CBS DC/AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder has been taken to the hospital after feeling faint and short of breath. The Justice Department tells CBS News that Holder “is currently resting...
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Holder Joins Call For Nationwide Data Breach Notification System
WASHINGTON (AP) — The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws and renewed a push for a single...
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Holder: Heroin An ‘Urgent Public Health Crisis’ Across US
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder is calling the increase in heroin-related deaths an “urgent public health crisis” and says first responders should carry with them drugs to reverse the...
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Holder Extends Federal Recognition To Mich. Same-Sex Couple Marriages Despite...
DETROIT (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday extended federal recognition to the marriages of about 300 same-sex couples that took place in Michigan before a federal appeals court put those...
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Holder: Postal Service Mail Used For ‘Shocking’ Amount Of Drug Dealing
WASHINGTON (WNEW) – Attorney General Eric Holder told a Senate committee on Thursday that there is a “shocking” number of people who are using the U.S. Postal Service to send illegal drugs around the...
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Holder: ATF ‘In Process’ Of Planning, Using Domestic Drones
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Attorney General Eric Holder stated on Tuesday that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives is currently exploring options for the use of domestic drones....
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Obama To Attend NYC Sharpton Conference
NEW YORK — The Rev. Al Sharpton is holding his annual civil rights conference amid a backdrop of questions about his cooperation with the FBI in the 1980s. Sharpton has admitted that he helped the FBI...
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GOP Congressman Refuses To Question Holder: Any Other American ‘Would Be In...
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, refused to question U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, referencing that Holder was held in...
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Cruz: Holder Should Be Impeached For ‘Defying Congress And The Rule Of Law’...
WASHINGTON (WNEW) – Sen. Ted Cruz said Attorney General Eric Holder should be impeached if he doesn’t indict former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner, who is linked to the agency’s...
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GOP Congressman Introduces ‘Contempt’ Bill To Withhold Holder’s Salary
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, has introduced the “Contempt Act” to prohibit taxpayer-funded salaries from going to government officials found in contempt of Congress. The Texas...
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AG Holder Urges Young People to Pursue Justice Department Careers
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – Attorney General Eric Holder gave a speech on diversity and inclusion, and urged young people to “consider careers here at the United States Department of Justice,” according to...
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Justice Dept. to Collect Data on Stops, Arrests
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department plans to collect data on police stops, searches and arrests in an effort to study racial bias in law enforcement. Holder said in a...
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Obama Administration Issues New Guidance Reminding Schools To Enroll Children...
WASHINGTON — Despite a 32-year-old court ruling, school districts continue to raise barriers to enrollment for children brought into the U.S. illegally, the Obama administration said Thursday,...
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Federal Judge Leaning Toward Allowing Obama’s Executive Privilege Claim In...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge said Thursday she is leaning toward allowing President Barack Obama’s claim of executive privilege in Operation Fast and Furious, the failed law enforcement operation...
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Rogers: ‘We’d Better Start Building Prisons By The Dozens’ If We Treat...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first prosecution arising from the Benghazi attacks is playing out in the federal courthouse blocks from both the White House and Capitol Hill, an appropriate setting for a case...
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French Bank Agrees To Pay Billions For Violating Trade Sanctions By...
WASHINGTON (AP) — France’s largest bank, BNP Paribas, has agreed to pay nearly $9 billion to resolve criminal allegations that it processed transactions for clients in Sudan and other blacklisted...
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US Schools Safe Haven For Many Immigrant Children
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — After 14 years of separation from her parents and a harrowing journey across the U.S. border, Milsa Martinez finds solace in the northern Virginia high school where she’s...
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Holder Promises Brown Family Full Civil Rights Investigation Of Teen’s Death
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday promised the family of an unarmed black teenager shot by police in Missouri a full, independent civil rights investigation of his death....
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Former AG Gonzales: DOJ Mounts Aggressive, Unusual Response To Michael Brown...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice has mounted an unusually swift and aggressive response to the death of Michael Brown, from an independent autopsy to dozens of FBI agents combing...
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Dem Rep: Obama Doesn’t Need To Come To Ferguson, Would Add ‘Another Distortion’
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — A Democratic lawmaker from Missouri doesn’t believe President Barack Obama needs to visit Ferguson as violent protests over the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a...
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Holder Bringing Personal Perspective to Ferguson
WASHINGTON — Eric Holder talks about the nation’s civil rights struggles in a way no previous U.S. attorney general could — by telling his own family story. As he increasingly pushes his Justice...
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Holder: I Understand Why Many Black Americans Don’t Trust Police
ST. LOUIS (CBSDC/AP) — To reassure the people of Ferguson, Attorney General Eric Holder reached into his own past, recalling the times he had been stopped by police officers who seemed to target him...
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Justice Department Opens Criminal Investigation Into American Journalist’s...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into beheading of American journalist James Foley by extremists from...
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WH Official: Holder Resigning As US Attorney General
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning after heading the Justice Department for six years. A White House official says President Barack Obama will announce Holder’s departure later...
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Holder Says D.C. Should Have Voting Rights
WASHINGTON — Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder says District of Columbia residents deserve representation in Congress. Holder mentioned the District’s lack of representation in prepared remarks for...
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Holder: Mixed Record On National Security Issues
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder was just months into the job when he announced plans to prosecute the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and other alleged co-conspirators in a New...
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Holder: My Biggest Failure Was ‘Inability To Pass Gun Safety Laws After...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Eric Holder feels his biggest failure as attorney general under President Barack Obama was the inability to pass federal gun control laws following the deadly Sandy Hook...
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CBS News: Holder ‘Exasperated’ Over ‘Selective Leaks’ Of Officer Wilson’s...
WASHINGTON (WNEW/AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder is reportedly not pleased about the recent leaks involving the grand jury testimony of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson in the fatal shooting of...
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Holder: Clear There’s Need For ‘Wholesale Change’ In Ferguson Police Department
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that there was an obvious need for “wholesale change” in the Ferguson, Missouri, police department. The statement at a forum in Washington...
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Holder To Fast And Furious Critics: ‘Kiss My A**’
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Newly released emails show Attorney General Eric Holder said that Justice Department prosecutors who were critical of the department’s handling of the fallout of the Fast and...
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Holder: ‘Disappointed’ By Violence In Ferguson
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says he’s “disappointed” by the violence that followed the Ferguson grand jury decision. Holder told reporters Tuesday that he is encouraged by some of...
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Justice Dept. To Investigate NYC Chokehold Death
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a grand jury in New York City declined to indict the white police...
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Obama Administration Releases New Racial Profiling Guidance To Law Enforcement
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The Obama administration issued guidelines Monday that ban federal law enforcement from profiling on the basis of religion, national origin and other characteristics, protocols...
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Holder: ‘Possibility’ Paris-Style Attack Could Happen In US
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — Attorney General Eric Holder believes there is a possibility a Paris-style terror attack could happen in the United States. “I wouldn’t say it’s greater, but I certainly think that...
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Holder Says He Expects to Finish Ferguson Probes Soon
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says he expects the Justice Department to announce before he leaves office the result of separate federal investigations into the Ferguson, Missouri shooting....
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