(CNSNews.com) – President Obama signed legislation four years ago to reduce “unfair disparities” in drug sentences, but even so, “there are still too many people in federal prison who were sentenced under the old regime,” Attorney General Eric Holder said on Monday. Because of when these drug offenders were sentenced, they will spend more time […]
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, reacted today to a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document showing that tens of thousands of convicted criminal aliens were freed by ICE last year into the U.S., as well as the presence […]
By Bobby Eberle March 25, 2014 7:13 am (File Photo) You’ve heard of the “Obama phone” — the so-called “free” cell phones given away to people at the expense of taxpayers. Now, the Obama Administration through Attorney General Eric Holder has a new plan: “free” cell phones and bus money. That’s right. Become a convict […]
Attorney General Eric Holder is now arguing that state attorneys general who refuse to defend provisions in their state constitutions restricting marriage to the union of one man and one woman are following in the footsteps of the civil rights movement. “Mr. Holder has said he views today’s gay-rights campaigns as a continuation of the […]
By Washington Times (DC) January 30, 2014 12:20 pm Meet Preet Bharara, the U.S. prosecutor who last week indicted anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza on campaign finance charges. Mr. Bharara is the snapping jaws of Attorney General Eric H. Holder’s junkyard attack dog and the velvet fixer of President Obama’s thorniest political problems. Mr. D’Souza very well […]
By Washington Times (DC) January 30, 2014 12:25 pm Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Wednesday that there is still a chance the government would file criminal charges against Internal Revenue Service employees who targeted tea party groups for special scrutiny, disputing press reports that the criminal probe into the tax agency has already decided […]
Governor Chris Christie apologized to New Jersey on Thursday for aides who closed traffic lanes in order to punish a Democratic mayor, and he fired a deputy chief of staff. We mention the IRS because Mr. Christie’s contrition contrasts so sharply with President Obama’s handling of the tax agency’s abuse of political opponents and his reluctance to […]
New York City police authorities are investigating a series of unprovoked physical attacks in public places on people who are Jewish, in the form of what is called “the knockout game.” The way the game is played, one of a number of young blacks decides to show that he can knock down some stranger on […]
It was a most unusual scene for a federal courtroom. Seventeen former convicts, some dressed in hoodies and weary from pulling all-night shifts, took turns updating U.S. District Judge Felipe Respreto last week on their progress toward finding their way back from societal exile, some after serving more than a decade in prison. Many spoke […]
WASHINGTON – Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to introduce articles of impeachment against Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday, in the hopes of removing a cabinet member that has lied to Congress as well as failed to uphold federal law. “This was not a decision that I made lightly. Since the House voted […]
