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Feds Oppose California's Bid to Legalize Marijuana

SAN FRANCISCO (Oct. 15) - Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal government will enforce its marijuana laws in California even if voters next month make the state the first in the nation to legalize the drug. The Justice Department strongly opposes California's Proposition 19 and remains firmly committed to...

Did Carl Paladino Really Say 'F--- Him' About Eric Holder? [VIDEO]

(Oct. 12) -- Another day, another YouTube-generated headache for Carl Paladino. In footage obtained by Jeremy Jacobs of National Journal's Hotline OnCall, the following video, taken at a town hall meeting on March 26 in Tappan, N.Y., appears to portray the tea-party-backed New York gubernatorial candidate uttering the...

Terror Case Ruling Fuels Debate Over Use of Civilian Courts

(Oct. 6) -- A last-minute ruling today by a federal judge blocking the government from using a key witness in a major terrorism case is expected to heat up the already contentious debate over whether to use civilian courts in such cases, legal experts say. "It will certainly fuel the debate," said former New York federal...

Feds File Suit Over Arizona Immigration Law

PHOENIX (July 6) -- The Obama administration sued Arizona on Tuesday to throw out the state's toughest-in-the-nation immigration law and keep other states from copying it. The lawsuit filed in federal court in Phoenix said the law, due to take effect July 29, usurps the federal government's "pre-eminent authority" under...

Attorney General: Bin Laden Won't Face Trial

WASHINGTON (March 16) -- Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive. In testy exchanges with House Republicans, the attorney general compared bin Laden to mass murderer Charles Manson and predicted that events...

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04/13/11 Attorney General Eric Holder Source: U.S. Embassy in Hungary At today's meeting with Attorney General Holder we continued discussions that we began last December in Washington.
04/04/11 Republicans say decision on military trials took too... Source: CBS - KREM 2 Republicans are accusing the Obama administration of taking too long to decide to try Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and four others before military commissions, rather than in a civilian court in New York. The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Lamar Smith of Texas, says it took the administration more than two years to figure out what he says most Americans already knew -- that Mohammed "is not a common criminal, he's a war criminal."