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U.S. Senate: Confirm Loretta Lynch As AG Without Delay

Loretta Lynch — Attorney General designate [To Be Equal] This past Saturday, I had the honor of visiting the White House for President Obama’s ...

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Loretta Lynch “Distinguished” U.S. Attorney Nominated For Attorney General

President Obama with AG nominee Ms. Lynch THE PRESIDENT: As President, I rely on my Cabinet every day to make sure that we are ...

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Sharpton: Holder Best AG On Civil Rights In U.S. History

Departing Attorney General Eric Holder The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community. ...

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Execution-Style Killing Of Michael Brown Mirrors America’s Fear Of Black Men

Prosecutor Bob McCulloch refuses to step down even after more than 70,000 petition signatures demanding he do so [Speaking Truth To Power] Wednesday, U.S. ...

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Eric Holder Says Approval Of Applying Sentencing Reduction Retroactively “Milestone”

Eric Holder U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Sentencing Commission vote approving retroactivity of sentence reductions for ...

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Holder Lauds Sentencing Commission’s Okay Of Reduced Federal Guidelines

Eric Holder Expected To Affect 70% of Federal Drug Offenders U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder—who testified before the U.S. Sentencing Commission last month in ...

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Fear Of Black Pre-Schoolers: Halting The Preschool-To-Prison Pipeline

Tiana Parker, seven, was sent home by Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa, Oklahoma: they didn’t approve of her locks [Commentary: Pre-school To Prison] ...

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At Top Security Conference, Eric Holder Deplores ‘inadvisable and unsustainable’ US MASS INCARCERATION

Attorney General Eric Holder [National] Attorney General Eric Holder offered the Obama administration’s most forceful critique to date of U.S. mass incarceration policies, at ...

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Letter To Eric Holder: Zimmerman’s Bias And Killing Of Trayvon Martin

Attorney General Eric Holder [Letter To Attorney General] The Honorable Eric Holder,  Attorney General United States Department of Justice Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Attorney ...

Judge Scheindlin Speaks Truth To Power: Stop-and-Frisk Is Racist And Unconstitutional

Scheindlin: America’s most honest judge? Rejected Bloomberg’s Black bogeyman fear-mongering [Speaking Truth To Power] On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin decided what ...