During Eric Holder's confirmation hearing, Arlen Specter scolded the attorney general-designate, but no one mentioned Israeli pressure.
By Joe Conason Jan 16, 2009
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While he largely praised Attorney General-designate Eric Holder, Former FBI Director Louis Freeh also criticized his conduct during the pardon process.
By Vincent Rossmeier
January 16, 2009
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His reputation for integrity was meant to restore credibility to the Justice Department. Instead, his remarks on waterboarding show that he, like Alberto Gonzales, has let the White House call the shots.
By Sidney Blumenthal
November 1, 2007
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Alberto Gonzales' successor will face a heckuva job rectifying the damage the attorney general did to American justice.
By David Cole
August 28, 2007
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Without Karl Rove around to give him his orders, and with the investigations closing in, "Fredo" had nowhere to turn.
By Sidney Blumenthal
August 27, 2007
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The attorney general, who collapsed while giving a speech on Thursday night, says he's feeling fine and that tests came back with good results.
By Alex Koppelman
November 21, 2008
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Newsweek reports that Barack Obama has offered Eric Holder, a former deputy attorney general, the job; Holder would be the first African American to lead the DOJ.
By Alex Koppelman
November 18, 2008
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Six Democrats defect, making the waterboarding equivocator America's top lawyer.
November 9, 2007
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Republicans and Democrats alike pummeled Alberto Gonzales in a daylong hearing that left the future of his job in doubt.
By Michael Scherer
April 20, 2007
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As Congress prepares to grill Alberto Gonzales, Salon has uncovered another partisan issue connected to the mass firings: Pornography.
By Mark Follman
April 19, 2007
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The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 15, 2007
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Like Watergate, the unfolding U.S. attorneys scandal proves that it's dangerous for the nation's chief law enforcement officer to be an appointed crony of the president.
By Garrett Epps
March 9, 2007
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When Alberto Gonzales briefed George W. Bush on the cases of Texas death row inmates up for clemency, his memos were so shabby they seemed intended solely to make it easy for Bush to send prisoners to their deaths.
By Alan Berlow
January 6, 2005
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John Ashcroft's war on terrorism has done enormous damage to our liberties -- and he has few tangible results to show for it.
By David Cole
November 19, 2004
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An interview with S/M photographer Barbara Nitke about her lawsuit against the attorney general, her art, and the thousand-yard stare.
By David Bowman
July 22, 2002
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By Alicia Montgomery
February 5, 2001
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Georgia's Zell Miller says he'll confirm the attorney general designate despite tough grilling on gun control and abortion by Kennedy, Schumer and Feinstein.
By Alicia Montgomery
January 18, 2001
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In their battle for Attorney General-designate John Ashcroft, Republicans are once again attacking the Missouri Supreme Court justice whose federal judgeship Ashcroft scuttled.
By Eric Boehlert
January 11, 2001
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He denied Ronnie White a federal judgeship for being soft on crime, when his real grudge was against his pro-choice politics -- and the move cost him his Senate seat.
By Eric Boehlert
January 8, 2001
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Bush's attorney general nominee is only the latest conservative lawmaker caught pandering to fans of the Confederacy in a tiny but powerful Southern journal.
By Alicia Montgomery
January 3, 2001
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Pro-choice activists criticize the appointment of conservative John Ashcroft as the Bush administration's attorney general.
By Daryl Lindsey
December 22, 2000
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A legal expert says the Cuban boy's legal saga is slowly winding down.
By Daryl Lindsey
June 2, 2000
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The baby's abuser is still uncharged, but the issue of his death -- in surrender or at the end of painful medical heroics -- finally reaches the court.
By Beth Broeker
April 25, 2000
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The attorney general robs Little Havana of its most potent symbol and redeems her last months in office.
By Bruce Shapiro
April 22, 2000
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Judge Jackson's findings are music to prosecutors' ears -- but Microsoft says it's guilty of nothing more than embodying "the most basic American values."
By Janelle Brown
November 6, 1999
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