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On August 20, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered the Department of Justice to “produce non-privileged documents” related to Fast and Furious and provide “a detailed list of privileged documents” which have been withheld from Congress. The non-privileged documents

When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder arrived in Ferguson, Missouri to investigate the controversial shooting incident between a city policeman and a black teen, he said he was both the highest law officer of the nation “and a black man.”

Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to use Michael Brown’s death and the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, to push for more police diversity and even combat unintentional “disparate treatment under the law” of minorities. In an op-ed in the St. Louis

Militarization of police forces has become the latest buzz phrase for politicians, pundits, and, it seems, everybody else. By now everybody in America, and probably well across the world, knows about, and has a theory about, the riots and looting

Missouri Republican Sen. Roy Blunt cautioned against the federal government taking over the investigation into the death of Michael Brown. “I’ve thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important,” Blunt said

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling for understanding in the face of racially charged anger, President Barack Obama said Monday that the vast majority of protesters in a St. Louis suburb were peaceful, but warned that a small minority was undermining justice

President Barack Obama declined to answer whether he would go to Ferguson, Missouri, after announcing that Attorney General Eric Holder would travel there Wednesday. At a White House press conference Monday, Ann Compton, who will be retiring from ABC News

The Justice Department under Eric Holder has issued a press release detailing its “civil rights investigation” in Ferguson. Among the revelations is that over 40 FBI agents are conducting an independent investigation of the scene of Michael Brown’s death: Attorney

Monday from the Brady Press Briefing Room, President Barack Obama called for calm from protesters and rioters in Ferguson, MO, saying, “Let’s seek to heal, rather than to wound each other,” and added we need to “unite as one America

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) — Details from the official autopsy of Michael Brown began to seep out just hours after the release of a privately conducted autopsy, revealing that the toxicology report found marijuana in Brown’s system when he died.

While vacationing at Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama, Eric Holder, and Valerie Jarrett have been monitoring the continuing uproar in Ferguson, Missouri after the shooting death of Michael Brown at the hands of local police. But as Obama returned to the

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered a federal autopsy in the Missouri shooting case of Ferguson teen Michael Brown, citing “extraordinary circumstances.” The family’s attorney, Ben Crump, told The Associated Press that funeral arrangements for 18-year-old

Saturday at the end of the chaotic press conference held by Missouri State Patrol and Gov. Jay Nixon to address the ongoing protests and riots that have erupted throughout Ferguson in reaction to the police fatally shooting Michael Brown,  Rep.

On Friday, minutes after the Ferguson, Missouri, police department released the name of the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, Missouri Lieutenant Gov. Peter Kinder (R) said it is a “fair question” to ask why it took the police

DALLAS, Texas — Room 1060 at the Earl Cabell Federal Building in downtown Dallas was the most compassionate place on earth, Monday, August 11, for minors who were in the various stages of the legal process for “Hearings on Removal

Attorney General Eric Holder criticized police forces for deploying military equipment and arresting journalists as riots continue to escalate in Ferguson, Missouri in response to the death of Michael Brown. Holder also criticized the violent protestors who were escalating the

Thursday, interrupting his family vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, MA, President Barack Obama called for everyone to take a “step back” after a fifth night of civil unrest and protests over the shooting death of an unarmed teenager Michael Brown in

U.S. civil rights advocates aired their concerns about the recent Michael Brown shooting to the United Nations in Geneva, according to a press call from the organizations on Wednesday. According to Shelton, Trayvon Martin’s mother Sybrina Fulton and Jordan Davis’s

HOUSTON, Texas — The feds have released more than 30,000 unaccompanied minors, all of whom entered the U.S. illegally, in various states around the nation. Assuming that most of these children will not be immediately deported, U.S. public schools be

We’ve all heard the left’s (especially the Obama administration’s) tired “race-baiting” argument against voter integrity measures — ad nauseum. For example, if measures are put into place to require identification before casting a vote, the story goes, minority voters will be

In an interview with Juan Williams, Attorney General Eric Holder said he is, indeed, an activist attorney general and proud of it. “If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label,” said Holder.

The death of Eric Garner, 43, who died in police custody on Staten Island on July 17, has been ruled a homicide by the city’s medical examiner. The examiner said a chokehold that compressed Garner’s neck and chest while he

Attorney General Eric Holder believes President Barack Obama has shown restraint in his use of executive actions. In an interview with Time, Holder, who previously could not explain whether the Constitution enabled some of Obama’s bolder executive actions, claimed Obama

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took to the floor on Friday to speak about the border bill being debate within the House of Representatives.  Although he stated he could not vote for the bill as it stands now, because it still

When she wasn’t working to persecute conservative Tea Party groups, former IRS official Lois Lerner spent her time taunting conservatives on her Blackberry. A new email chain shows Lerner participating in a conversation describing conservatives as scary, crazy, right wing,

John Fund, national affairs correspondent for National Review Online, told Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon that if President Obama attempts via executive order to grant amnesty to eight million illegal aliens “it would be the equivalent of ritual

If you want a good illustration of how Attorney General Eric Holder has politicized the Justice Department and its prosecutorial decision-making, all you have to do is look at what Justice has not done in just one part of the IRS scandal.

Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin ripped Attorney General Eric Holder for his incompetence and lawlessness, particularly on illegal immigration, a week after he dismissed her call for President Barack Obama to be impeached.  “You don’t need some fancy law degree

Saturday in Denver at the Western Conservative Summit former Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK)  slammed Attorney General Eric Holder for his appearance on ABC’s “This Week” last Sunday when he accused Obama administration detractors of being motivated by race.  Palin slammed

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is investigating the circumstances behind the disappearance of emails from a former senior Internal Revenue Service official, part of a broader criminal inquiry into whether the agency had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status,

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh believes President Barack Obama’s lawlessness on illegal immigration is just another part of his broader war on America’s suburbs.  On his Tuesday radio show, Limbaugh spoke extensively about Stanley Kurtz, the author of Spreading the Wealth:

On Tuesday, Pat Buchanan accused Attorney General Eric Holder of shamelessly playing the “card of the victim” to draw attention away from President Barack Obama’s “wholesale incompetence.” Last Sunday, Holder alleged that some Republicans oppose President Barack Obama due to