It been nearly sixty days since he was first nominated, but the Senate Judiciary Committee has finally voted 17-2 today to send Eric Holder’s nomination for attorney general to the full Senate for confirmation. A Senate vote is expected this week.
The positive outcome of the vote was expected after More…
Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s hard line on interrogation (“waterboarding is torture“) rattled Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and a few minority Senators enough to delay the vote to send Holder’s nomination to the Senate floor. After all, if waterboarding is torture, and torture is a crime, who’s to say More…
The Senate Judiciary Committee vote to send Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation to the full Senate has been postponed after Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), the ranking minority member, announced that the minority had reached a “unanimous view that there was insufficient time to question Mr. Holder” during a More…
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s meeting to vote to send Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation to the full Senate is back on.
Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has rescheduled the meeting for 2:30 p.m. The meeting was postponed due to a conflict with a prayer service at the National Cathedral. More…
The meeting to vote on whether to confirm Eric Holder as attorney general, which was supposed to be held this morning, has been postponed. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has not set a new date yet.
As we said last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to support More…
Now that Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation hearings have more or less wrapped up (he still has to answer some questions in writing to a few members of the minority), Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) has scheduled a vote Wednesday to send the nomination to the full Senate, the More…
The second day of Attorney General-nominee Eric Holder’s confirmation hearings began today, featuring a large panel of witnesses to speak to Holder’s qualifications for the post.
Witnesses supporting Holder’s confirmation include: Louis Freeh, the former FBI director; Chuck Canterbury, the president of the National Fraternal Order of Police; John More…
The confirmation hearings for Eric Holder to attorney general certainly weren’t as acrimonious as many predicted they’d be.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.), who made a kerfuffle over the Marc Rich and FALN pardons prior to the hearing, only touched briefly on Rich in his first round of questioning. And More…
Is Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kans.) really talking about protecting fetuses under the Americans with Disabilities Act right now?
Really?
Someone has already started running for governor in 2010.
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A special thanks to Matt Berman for his awesome help researching and transcribing the hearings today.
Earlier today, Eric Holder called waterboarding out-and-out torture. But later, when asked about other kinds of interrogation techniques (dogs, painful stress positions, nudity, and mock executions), he said he wouldn’t call those actions torture.
Instead, he refreshingly reminds the committee that Common Article III of the Geneva Conventions requires More…
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