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By not in system - AOL News(July 11) -- Although Arizona's new immigration law raised concerns that it might result in racial profiling, Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday that the Justice Department lawsuit seeking to overturn it focused tightly on the federal government's prerogative to set immigration policy because that provided the strongest legal basis for the case. ...
Indiana Joins Legal Challenge to Health Care Law
By David Sessions - Politics DailyIndiana will join a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the health care reform bill Congress passed in March, The Hill reports. The state's Republican attorney general, Greg Zoeller, said Sunday on Fox News that Indiana would become the 15th state involved in the legal action. Zoeller emphasized that the constitutional challenge had little to do with the content of the law. "It's really part of our job description to bring these challenges," he said. "It's not something that says whether we are for or against the measure; it's really to check to see whether the federal government ...
CIA Chief: Al-Qaida 'Scrambling'
By David Knowles - AOL News(March 17) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta believes the current U.S. strategy against the al-Qaida terrorist network is showing major signs of success. In an interview with The Washington Post, Panetta characterized his department's efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan as "the most aggressive operation that the CIA has been involved in in our history." As a result of the effort, Panetta said, the U.S. campaign is succeeding in impeding the group led by Osama bin Laden. Kevork Djansezian, Getty Images CIA Director Leon Panetta said the U.S. strategy against al-Qaida has been successful in ...
Lawmaker Apologizes for Kidnapping Remark
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 18) -- Rep. John Shadegg isn't backing off his charge that holding 9/11 trials in New York would put the city at greater risk, but he says he's sorry he dragged the mayor's daughter into the argument. In remarks on the House floor Monday night, the Arizona Republican blasted Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to move admitted 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his cohorts from Guantanamo Bay to New York, where they will be tried in civilian court. He scoffed at Mayor Michael Bloomberg's assurances that the city can handle any possible security problem. "Well mayor, ...
Jerry Brown Staffer Quits Over Recorded Conversations
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA spokesman for California Attorney General Jerry Brown has resigned after admitting he secretly taped telephone conversations with reporters. In his resignation letter, Scott Gerber wrote that he didn't make the recordings "to play gotcha but simply to have an accurate record of official, on-the-record statements on matters of public concern." Gerber apologized to Brown and to the reporters, admitting that he "made serious errors in judgment," the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Gerber said neither Brown nor anyone else in his office was aware of the taping. Brown hasn't commented. ...
Obama Ducks Decision on Bush Prosecutions, Leaves it to Holder
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyOne thing is for certain, President Barack Obama's position with respect to the possibility of prosecutions of former members of the Bush Administration for their role in developing policies in the war on terror has changed. When he first took office, the president dismissed the idea of prosecutions and even official investigations, saying that his Administration would be focused on looking forward. In comments made in the Oval Office today, however, Obama hinted that he is now at least open to the possibility of either or both. But it remains unclear exactly what the president himself wants ...
Sarah Palin's AG Pick Under Unfair Fire for Defense of KKK Statue
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyI reported yesterday on Wayne Anthony Ross' disturbing comments on gay people, and his observations about Sarah Palin, during his confirmation hearing. A new brouhaha has erupted today that could scuttle Ross' appointment as Alaska Attorney General.He's taking heat now for an Op-Ed piece he wrote defending a statue of a Klansman. Here's how Max Blumenthal at Daily Beast lays it out:But as pro-Palin forces attempted to push back against Ross's critics, dozens of op-eds Ross authored during the 1980s and 1990s surfaced as key exhibits in the case against his confirmation. Among them is a 1993 ...
AG Nominee Eric Holder Vows No Guantanamo Torture Prosecutions
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident Obama's choice to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General nominee Eric Holder, won approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a lopsided 17-2 vote. That much was not surprising. His nomination will now be considered by the full Senate; where despite some questions about his role in the Clinton Justice Department, he will likely be confirmed. What is surprising, however, is the pledge that Holder reportedly made to Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee to gain a majority of their support. Holder promised not to bring prosecutions against ...
Eric Holder's Confirmation as Attorney General Postponed
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyThe Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed the confirmation vote for Eric Holder until sometime next week. The delay came after Republicans asked for another week to consider Holder for attorney general. That caused a bit of a dust-up between Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania."They've really been at each others' throats for several days now over this," reported Terry Frieden, CNN's senior justice producer. Republicans have the right to ask for more time. But that doesn't mean Leahy and the Democrats have to be happy about it. ...
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