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*It looks like Attorney General Eric Holder is going to hold out for President Obama a little longer than expected. The Republican attack target is currently under pressure to leave his position after the House charged him with Contempt of Congress over the “Fast And Furious” gun scandal in July. But at the request of [...]
*(Via Yahoo News) – Operation “Fast and Furious,” the controversial undercover operation that allowed U.S. guns to be walked into Mexico, was a “risky strategy” that did not “adequately take into account the significant danger to public safety that it created.” That was the conclusion today from the Office of the Inspector General, Department of [...]
*First lady Michelle Obama is scheduled to travel to Wisconsin Thursday to meet with family members of those killed and injured in a Sikh temple shooting earlier this month, White House officials announced Sunday. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The shooting – which left six people dead and four others injured – occurred Aug. 5 [...]
*(Via AJC.com) – In remarks to the NAACP in Houston, the attorney general said the Justice Department “will not allow political pretexts to disenfranchise American citizens of their most precious right.” Under the law passed in Texas, Holder said that “many of those without IDs would have to travel great distances to get them — [...]
*Attorney General Eric Holder has repeatedly and publicly called the drumbeat attacks on him politically motivated. He said the same again, and punctuated it even more strongly by calling the action “crass,” when the House with the backing and to the disgrace of 17 Democrats voted to hold him in contempt. It was both a [...]
*The House has voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal, the first time Congress has taken such a dramatic move against a sitting Cabinet official. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Politico reports: The vote was 255-67, with 17 [...]
*(Via CNN) – Voting on strictly partisan lines, a House committee recommended Wednesday that Attorney General Eric Holder be cited for contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents relating to the botched Fast and Furious weapons sting operation. The vote ended an extraordinary daylong hearing that took place after President Barack Obama asserted [...]
*House Majority leader John Boehner’s “green light” to the GOP controlled House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to consider a contempt of Congress citation against Attorney General Eric Holder is just the latest in the continuing dance of political gamesmanship the GOP is playing with President Obama. That’s right Obama. The ostensible issue is that [...]
*Someone from George Zimmerman’s family sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder this week demanding that members of the New Blank Panthers be arrested for hate crimes, and comparing Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, to the black man falsely accused of raping a white woman in “To Kill [...]
*Imagine this… You do some research into your family tree and discover that your uncle, who was born nearly 30 years after slavery, was one of thousands of black men pulled back into a forced labor system in which they were arrested – largely on trumped up charges – and compelled to work without pay as [...]
*TV One will premiere the 19th Annual Trumpet Awards, hosted by Nicole Ari Parker, Boris Kodjoe and Niecy Nash, Sunday, on April 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET The Trumpet Awards were created in 1993 to honor African-American achievement in diverse fields such as law, religion, politics, public service, sports and entertainment. This year, Trumpet Awards [...]
*Lawmakers are making another attempt to get a posthumous presidential pardon for the world’s first black heavyweight champion, who was imprisoned nearly a century ago because of his romantic ties with a white woman. New York Rep. Peter King and Arizona Sen. John McCain, both Republicans, plan to reintroduce a congressional resolution urging a pardon [...]
*(Via CBSnews.com) A Bush appointee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights denounced allegations by some pundits that the Justice Department is refusing to pursue a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because of race, and suggested that the charges being made by right-wing figures are politically motivated. Conservative broadcasters [...]
*Four New Orleans police officers were charged Tuesday with federal civil rights violations in the deadly shootings of unarmed people on a bridge in the chaos after Hurricane Katrina, officials said. Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth Bowen and officers Anthony Villavaso and Robert Faulcon were charged with deprivation of rights under color of law and [...]
*This guy is straight TRIPPIN’! That’s all you can say when you see something this ridiculous. He’s just what Rush Limbaugh and his ilk have been waiting/praying for to use against Obama and black folks in general. It’s like watching a mixture of Dave Chappelle and In Living Color skits. According to reports, King Samir [...]
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