The attorney general suggested a nationwide hold on executions pending a Supreme Court review of Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol. Alabama, Florida, Ohio, and Tennessee have halted executions recently over drug issues, and activists called for Oregon’s outgoing governor to take action on the issue as well. Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that a […]
http://twitter.com/#!/EBischoff/status/461300936564957184 While some are saying NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s smackdown of racist Clippers owner Donald Sterling didn’t come soon enough, professional wrestling personality and television producer Eric Bischoff argues that the NBA is still doing better than our federal government. http://twitter.com/#!/EBischoff/status/461305134325055488 Sad, indeed. http://twitter.com/#!/EBischoff/status/461307129953935361 But shouldn’t the lapdog media share some of the blame for the lack […]
The light hit a tear on President Obama’s facelast February as he bid farewell to former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who managed to hang around well after he announced his departure from the White House and still lingers around politics like that party guest who just won’t take a hint. Holder, who left behind […]
http://twitter.com/#!/Diddley_Squat/status/421695453655093248 Editor’s note: The title of this post originally read “‘Never seen anything like this’: Are Holder, DOJ openly defying Utah same-sex marriage ruling?”. The title and text have been amended for clarification. While the governor’s office said it would not recognize the marriages, the issue of recognition was not part of the SCOTUS decision. If there […]
http://twitter.com/#!/judy_wiggs/status/515182512255938560 As Twitchy reported, Eric Holder will be stepping down as Attorney General. Holder’s tenure as AG won’t be remembered fondly by many people, including House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.): Eric Holder is the most divisive U.S. Attorney General in modern history. — Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) September 25, 2014 Holder also has the […]
http://twitter.com/#!/CivilRights/status/522460408033312768 Meet Vanita Gupta, the woman tapped by President Obama to take over the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. From NBC News: President Obama has appointed Vanita Gupta, the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, to become the interim head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “Vanita has spent her […]
http://twitter.com/#!/mullrainee/status/515204131045519360 NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is bummed over Eric Holder’s resignation: From civil rights to criminal justice, we are a safer and fairer country because of Eric Holder’s remarkable service. pic.twitter.com/kOTgz3Z57F — Bill de Blasio (@BilldeBlasio) September 25, 2014 But you know what should really be bothering him? The fact that he may very be […]