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2:45 PM, Jul 9, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

As the number of states passing voter ID laws is increasing, Democrats are up in arms about disenfranchisement of voters. Despite this, there are good reasons to believe that fraud might be widespread and producing identification hardly seems like a difficult barrier.

7:00 PM, Apr 18, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Boy that Obama budget speech last week sure reassured Wall Street, huh?

James Pethokoukis and Kevin Williamson comment on the S&P's change in outlook.

"Deference" has no place in "advice and consent."

9:50 AM, Jul 2, 2010 • By ADAM J. WHITE

Jack Goldsmith ranks among the very best conservative legal scholars. He also wins acclaim from liberals, who applauded his criticism of the Bush administration's legal arguments supporting aspects of the nation's response to the attacks of 9/11, during his tenure in President Bush's Justice Department.

Holder to File Lawsuit Against Arizona Next Week

8:28 AM, Jun 22, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

ABC's Jake Tapper reports:

Obama administration sources tell ABC News that Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to file a lawsuit against the state of Arizona for its immigration law, likely next week.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights gets involved.

12:00 AM, Jun 16, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPER

Jennifer Rubin's "Friends in High Places," from this week's issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, delves into the intrigue surrounding the dismissal of the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party. Her reporting on the NAACP's possible involvement has caught the attention of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, which has sent this letter to the Department of Justice:

After Eric Holder Gets Pushed Under the Bus

Who will be the next attorney general?

8:00 AM, Jun 14, 2010 • By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD

Eric Holder has been a disastrous attorney general. “Classic 101 Boobery” was how one Democratic operative memorably called his decision, now on hold, to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a civilian court in lower Manhattan.

The Obama Justice Department went to bat for the New Black Panther party—and then covered it up.

Jun 21, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 38 • By JENNIFER RUBIN

The case is straightforward. On Election Day 2008, two members of the New Black Panther party (NBPP) dressed in military garb were captured on videotape at a Philadelphia polling place spouting racial epithets and menacing voters. One, Minister King Samir Shabazz, wielded a nightstick. It was a textbook case of voter intimidation and clearly covered under the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

TWS Obtains Top Justice Department Official's Recusal Document

It's worse than you think.

3:25 PM, May 6, 2010 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

In last week's cover story, Jennifer Rubin described the run around she received in response to her Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for documentation of recusals by Justice Department lawyers who previously represented Guantanamo detainees. The official responsible for documents from the top offices at DOJ--the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and associate attorney general--told Rubin the documents were not in a readily accessible place, that three individual attorneys' offices would need to be searched, and it would take a total of eight to eleven months to produce them. However, THE WEEKLY STANDARD has now managed to obtain one of these documents--an apparently complete list of the recusals by Thomas Perrelli, the associate attorney general (the number three attorney in the Justice Department). Covering cases and clients Perrelli or his former law firm (Jenner & Block) worked on, it is six pages long and includes a list of forty-one cases involving former or current Guantanamo detainees.

The document is reproduced here. In an e-mail, Jennifer Rubin explains its significance:

Meet Michael Ratner, lead terrorist defender.

Mar 29, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 27 • By MARC A. THIESSEN

Holder Failed to Disclose Seven Supreme Court Briefs

6:57 PM, Mar 12, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Politico reports:

Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t tell the Senate Judiciary Committee about seven Supreme Court amicus briefs he prepared or supported, his office acknowledged in a letter Friday, including two urging the court to reject the Bush administration’s attempt to try Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant.

1:59 PM, Mar 11, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz), tells the New York Times that Holder's explanation that he inadvertently failed to disclose the brief in support of Jose Padilla “strained credulity.”

“Are we expected to believe that then-nominee Holder, with only a handful of Supreme Court briefs to his name, forgot about his role in one of this country’s most publicized terrorism cases?” Mr. Kyl asked.

11:10 AM, Mar 11, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

In response to the news that AG Eric Holder failed to disclose a brief he signed in support of detainee Jose Padilla, Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, released this statement:

Keeping America safe.

11:58 AM, Feb 24, 2010 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

John Yoo writes in the Wall Street Journal in response to the "bias and sheer incompetence" of the Obama DOJ's investigation of Yoo and other former government officials:

Why bother fighting off an administration hell-bent on finding scapegoats for its policy disagreements with the last president? I could have easily decided to hide out, as others have. Instead, I wrote numerous articles (several published in this newspaper) and three books explaining and defending presidential control of national security policy. I gave dozens of speeches and media appearances, where I confronted critics of the administration's terrorism policies. And, most importantly, I was lucky to receive the outstanding legal counsel of Miguel Estrada, one of the nation's finest defense attorneys, to attack head-on and without reservation, each and every one of OPR's mistakes, misdeeds and acts of malfeasance.

I did not do this to win any popularity contests, least of all those held in the faculty lounge. I did it to help our president—President Obama, not Bush.