Attorney General Eric Holder encouraged Americans not to forget race while working for justice and equality in their country. Holder made his remarks during a speech at Howard University on Tuesday for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Civil Rights
WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) — Attorney General Eric Holder’s suggestion that some harsh criticism of President Obama comes from racial prejudice is “not constructive,” U.S. Sen. Rob Portman said. Portman, R-Ohio, spoke on Fox News on Monday, a day after
On Sunday, Attorney General Eric Holder said some Republicans who oppose President Barack Obama are motivated by “racial animus.” On ABC’s This Week, Holder also dismissed former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s call for President Barack Obama’s impeachment over Obama’s lawlessness
After accusing Republicans of opposing him and President Barack Obama due to “racial animus,” Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday said the “offensive” Washington Redskins name should be changed. “I think the name ought to be changed,” Holder said on
On July 9, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence filed suit against Kansas Governor Sam Brownback (R) and Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt over a state law–the Second Amendment Protection Act–that “makes it a felony to attempt to enforce
Connie Cochran, the sister-in-law of Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) and a Hinds County, Mississippi, election commissioner, swears she didn’t have anything to do with destruction of election evidence. There’s just one problem with her denial: It was never alleged that
Mississippi GOP chairman Joe Nosef issued a statement Thursday in response to the latest legal actions from True The Vote, saying he plans to target the election integrity organization and its lawsuit’s various Mississippi voter plaintiffs with legal action. Nosef
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “The Real Story With Gretchen Carlson,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said, “The Department of Justice investigation of this has been woefully negligent” as he called for impeachment of Attorney General Eric Holder if he continues
A glance at current headlines reveals that Central American children are flooding across our porous Southern border at an alarming rate, thanks to the Obama White House refusing to enforce existing immigration laws. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the federal
State Sen. Chris McDaniel’s campaign told Breitbart News that the conservative firebrand is already halfway to finding enough allegedly ineligible votes counted to launch a legitimate challenge to the results of last Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff against incumbent Sen. Thad
On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) echoed a call by House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and said lobbied for a special prosecutor to handle the scandal surrounding the Internal Revenue Service, except with the additional step of
If Attorney General Eric Holder refuses to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS scandal, he should be impeached, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said for the first time today. “If this resolution is not passed and Democrats in the
House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrel Issa (R-CA) demanded a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS over its targeting of conservative groups and the disappearance of emails from key officials. Issa declared that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is “not the
In response to Not a Smidgen of Corruption in IRS Wrongdoing: Well, I suppose if you accept Hillary Clinton’s definition of multi-million-dollar income as virtual poverty, then maybe $50k worth of wrongdoing isn’t quite a full “smidgen.” It’s more like
Friday on Fox News Channel’s “The Kelly File,” Breitbart editor Ben Shapiro discussed the Obama administration’s “Mafia-esque” tactics that allow the president to avoid being held accountable in the multiple scandals plaguing his second term. “The Obama administration and the
The news just keeps going from bad to worse for President Obama and disgraced former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations Lois Lerner, thanks in large part to Judicial Watch’s investigative work. JW has been instrumental in uncovering evidence of Lerner’s
On Sunday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) called for a special prosecutor to investigate the mysterious missing emails from former IRS charitable organizations head Lois Lerner between January 2009 and April 2011. The IRS announced that the emails had gone missing
Breitbart Editor-At-Large and author of “The People Vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against The Obama Administration,” laid out the case for the criminal prosecution of the “mafia-esque” Obama administration under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) on
Citing secret waiting lists and possible “criminal wrongdoing” a bipartisan group of U.S. senators is calling on the Justice Department to open up a criminal probe into the Veterans Affairs scandal. According to reports, the “letter to Attorney General Eric
President Barack Obama’s administration will spend $2 million dollars of taxpayer funds to provide illegal immigrant children with legal representation. On Friday, the Justice Department announced a “justice AmeriCorps” program that will fund nearly 100 lawyers across 29 cities with one-year grants
On Thursday the payday lenders trade association and its largest member company, Advance America, filed a lawsuit in federal district court to end the Department of Justice’s controversial Operation Choke Point. The case argued that the defendant agencies (the Federal
HOUSTON, Texas–Democrat Attorney General candidate Sam Houston (no relation to Texas’s founding president, governor, and senator) says Texas is spending too much money on border security. He also complained about money being spent by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott defending
The Justice Department’s “Operation Choke Point” is so flagrantly illegal it cannot continue in any form under the law, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Charman Darrell Issa’s staff said in a new report, setting up a constitutional confrontation
Political figures are calling for further investigation into the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal – even though President Obama and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki have vowed to investigate the allegations on their own. Shinseki has tasked the Veterans Affairs Inspector
In response to White House Investigating Outing of CIA Station Chief: Wow, the Obama Administration is investigating itself again! I can hardly wait to learn the outcome from this hard-hitting piece of detective work, doubtless to be released sometime after
New revelations out this week show that disgraced former IRS official Lois Lerner was a key player in the Justice Department’s foiled scheme: “tax-exempt groups engaging in politics.” The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has discovered, via an
AP: Attorney General Eric Holder announced cyber-espionage charges Monday against five Chinese military officials accused of hacking into U.S. nuclear power, metal and solar product companies to gain trade secrets. (May 19) Follow Pam Key on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
At the Morgan State University commencement ceremony in Baltimore on Saturday, Attorney General Eric Holder spokes on issues of race, which was part of an effort to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme
Attorney General Eric Holder used his Saturday commencement speech at a historically black university in Maryland to strike back at Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and his argument that a colorblind society is the best way to be “faithful”
Attorney General Eric Holder, who has suggested that critics of the Obama administration are motivated by race and referred to America as a “nation of cowards” on race issues while blasting Americans who resist more gun control laws, suggested that those opposed to President
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was openly irritated both with Attorney General Eric Holder and with the U.S. House of Representatives over whether executive privilege allows Holder to withhold documents on Operation Fast and Furious. But she also signaled
Tuesday on NewsMax.TV, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) detailed how for two years then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton refused the pleas of the CIA, FBI, and Eric Holder’s Justice Department to have Boko Haram classified as a terrorist group because
House Speaker John Boehner went on Fox News today to discuss the establishment of a House Select Committee to investigate Benghazi. He qalso said he would not seek the arrest of former IRS official Lois Lerner for being in contempt of
On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced he is willing to punish financial institutions for criminal practices in a video posted to the Justice Department website. “I intend to reaffirm the principle that no individual or entity that does harm to
At a “Stand and Fight” rally at the National Rifle Association’s annual convention in Indiana on Saturday, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said if she were in charge of the country, America would put the fear of God in its
At the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum at the 2014 NRA Annual Meetings in Indianapolis, IN on Friday, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), who is being sued by Eric Holder’s Department of Justice over its school voucher system, lashed out at the Obama
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has cancelled his appearance at an Oklahoma City police academy graduation ceremony amid a planned protest by conservative lawmakers and organizations. Holder will still be traveling to Oklahoma City but will no longer be speaking
Neel Kashkari, one of the Republican candidates for Governor of California, published a new blueprint for the state’s education system Tuesday. The focus is on making public schools in the state operate more like charter schools. Currently California ranks near
In a video posted to the Department of Justice webpage announcing the “Clemency Project 2014,” Attorney General Eric Holder criticized drug sentences under President George W. Bush, calling it “under the old regime” Follow Pam on Twitter @pamkeyNEN
The US government must make public secret papers justifying drone attacks against suspected terrorists, including American citizens, a New York federal appeals court ordered Monday. The case was brought by The New York Times and two of its journalists in
