WASHINGTON, DC—Justice Department lawyers told a federal appeals court on Wednesday that only Congress can decide to make sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes under federal civil rights laws, reversing the Obama administration’s position that courts can reinterpret previous laws to include these new social categories.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway believes that Americans should know about the political alignments of lawyers on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team.
On Thursday, former President Barack Obama made his first political appearance since he left office in January at a private fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC).
Former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder provided a group of liberal lawyers and activists in San Francisco with a pep talk this week, and encouraged them to keep fighting President Donald Trump and his administration.
On Thursday, former President Barack Obama will make his first public political appearance since leaving the White House in January.
On this week’s edition of the “Pod Save America” podcast, former Attorney General Eric Holder said he thought Special Counsel Robert Mueller was “getting pretty close” to an obstruction of justice case against President Donald Trump. According to Holder, the firing
Uber’s CEO Travis Kalanick was dumped after a 47-point report by former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder found the company to be a management disaster, but he could make a triumphant return, like Apple’s once-fired CEO Steve Jobs.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder has said he is eager to become more involved in resisting President Donald Trump and is also considering a presidential run in 2020.
The U.S. Supreme Court made headlines Monday with its acceptance of a case that argues whether legislative maps can be ruled unconstitutional simply due to the partisan advantages that may be gained from their designs. Some election law experts contend the matter is a means to an end in transferring redistricting powers—commonly held in legislative branches—to commissions not directly answerable to the electorate.
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick was forced to take a leave of absence, the company announced Tuesday, after a 47-point report by former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder was unanimously adopted by Uber board members.
Uber Board members unanimously adopted a new corporate culture recommended by former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr., including parting ways with the company’s number two executive and potentially asking its founder to take a leave of absence.
Viewed in isolation, the decision to appoint a special counsel is defensible, even good. But viewed in recent historical context, itl is unfair and indefensible.
Last week, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled his May revisions to the state budget proposal he rolled out in January. Buried deep among billions of dollars in proposed new spending are millions of dollars for the state to provide criminal defense for illegal immigrants in California who are facing deportation to their home country by our own federal government.
The Department of Justice announced Friday the end of former Attorney General Eric Holder’s controversial policy preventing certain offenders being charged with crimes that trigger mandatory minimums.
Jamie S. Gorelick, who served as Deputy Attorney General during the Clinton administration, recently opined that then-FBI Director James Comey was “damaging our democracy” by telling Congress less than than two weeks before the presidential election that the FBI was reviewing additional correspondence that may have been relevant to the Hillary Clinton email probe.
While former aides to President Obama and members of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign predictably panned President Donald Trump for firing James Comey as FBI director, it was only a few months ago that Clinton’s campaign repeatedly alleged wrongdoing by Comey over his investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server.
The 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry by a 7-time previously deported illegal alien could have been prevented, says the agent’s brother Kent Terry in an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas. Terry’s family hopes the Trump Administration will now go after “the real criminals” responsible for putting the “Fast and Furious” guns in the accused killer’s hands.
The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee told a Thursday forum at the Washington-based watchdog Judicial Watch that starting April 1 his committee and staff will hold President Donald Trump and his administration accountable for producing requested documents.
On Wednesday Attorney General Jeff Sessions sent a memo to the 94 U.S. attorneys directing them to pursue “harsh sentences” for gun crimes.
This week, Congress turned attention toward a continuing Obama Administration policy wherein the Justice Department (DOJ) incentivizes corporate payments to left-wing activist groups like La Raza.
Television networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have afforded nearly seven times more air time on then-Sen. Jeff Sessions meeting with a Russian ambassador than was spent when Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for withholding documents related to a House investigation, according to a newly released Media Research Center study.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged Americans to give former Republican Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions a chance to prove himself as the nation’s new attorney general.
The strong posturing by California Democrats is setting the table for a major battle between President Trump and the Republican Congress on the one hand, and the ideologically left-wing leaders of the largest state in the union.
Former Attorney General Eric Holder was with Democrat lawmakers in California on Tuesday, but no one appears to know exactly what he was doing.
The tens of millions of Americans watching Super Bowl LI Sunday night were treated to a politically-charged advertisement from home-sharing company Airbnb, which launched its #WeAccept ad campaign with a 30-second spot highlighting diversity.
Partisan outrage and media curiosity swirled anew early Wednesday morning when President Trump announced on Twitter his decision to charge his administration with investigating “voter fraud”, potentially leading to reforms made in the future.
I’ve often observed that, when it comes to public policy, the Obama Justice Department has been a locus of evil. And therefore it was concerning to see that the man who ran that Obama agency for years, the disgraced Eric Holder, has gotten himself a new, government-related gig.
There is something decidedly odd about the California State Legislature’s decision to hire former Attorney General Eric Holder, now back at the prestigious Covington & Burling law firm, to fight the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.
California State Assemblyman Kevin Kiley (R-Roseville) is challenging the constitutionality of state Democrats’ plan to hire former Attorney General Eric Holder of the Covington & Burling firm to fight President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
Now that legislative leaders in California have hired law firm Covington & Burling and Eric Holder to offer legal counsel to the state during Donald Trump’s presidency, it is worth noting a few facts about the high-profile firm the former attorney general helps lead.
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) slammed his home state’s government for its decision to retain the services of former Attorney General Eric Holder to take on the Trump administration on immigration issues. “Well, he’s been
Democratic leaders of the California legislature have hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to represent the liberal state in future legal battles with the Trump administration.
Senator Jeff Sessions, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Attorney General, is already facing fierce opposition from the establishment left, with a series of coordinated protests kicking off Tuesday to try and derail Session’s nomination. A former Department of Justice official says, however, that the real battle will begin after Sessions takes office.
President Obama and his mouthpieces have embarked on a bizarre scheme to hypnotize America into forgetting the many scandals of his presidency. They seem to think that intoning “this administration hasn’t had a scandal” over and over again will make history disappear. It’s the lamest Jedi Mind Trick ever, and is being pushed on people who know Star Wars is just a movie.
Walmart announced Tuesday that they will no longer be selling Black Lives Matter clothing on its website that says “Bulletproof.”
Walmart is selling Black Lives Matter clothing and other items amid calls to designate the movement as a hate or terrorist effort. The retailer has banned sales of items bearing a Confederate flag, and an “All Lives Matter” bumper sticker saying it was “offensive.” Some of the Black Lives Matter clothing items also have the word “Bulletproof” on them.
A federal district court judge in Arizona has upheld two identity theft laws used to prosecute illegal aliens in employment raids by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Eric Holder argued that the Electoral College needs to be abolished, and the different waiting times to vote in different places violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. When
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Eric Holder stated that listening to both sides is not something we do “in this new world we have. We push our side.” After Holder said that he didn’t like
The father of one of the officers executed in Dallas in July at a Black Lives Matter protest filed a lawsuit on Monday against Black Lives Matter, Rev. Al Sharpton, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, and others charging that they inflamed and inspired a “War on Police.”
