35 Burst results for "Attorney General Eric Holder"
WTOP
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on WTOP
"The Senate passed a bill forcing a labor agreement between national freight railroads and their unions averting a major rail strike. That Bill now awaits President Biden's signature after the House passed it on Wednesday. Joining us live as CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of face the nation on CBS, Margaret Brennan. Margaret well a strike has been averted here that issue of paid sick leave is still unresolved. Is there anything President Biden or Congress can do about that at this point? Well, there is a separate parallel bill an argument over that. So it's not completely dead. But the crisis that was seen here with the potential strike hitting just before the holidays at a moment when inflation is high. Really led to this sort of panicked action. So the big Bill averting the strike seems to be headed very swiftly to the president's desk. In fact, he had said he wanted that settled by this weekend. So that's the sort of headline of it. That paid sick leave has been the main point of disagreement between the railroads and the unions. And I know Bernie Sanders and other senators have said they are still going to continue working on it. So do you see any significant blowback for Democrats typically, they get strong support from the unions. That's right, which is why it was such a unique and sort of uncomfortable position, frankly, for the president really have to force this in his view. Something he had to do because of the timing and the calendar and the moment we are in. But that's where we are. The approved bill passed like 80 to 15. So it's going through. But the talks have stalled. There's an attempt, of course, to say we can continue negotiating, give us more time. I mean, there are ways through this. But it is an uncomfortable position for The White House to have been put in to have to go to Congress to force workers back to stay on the job. What do you have coming up on Sunday? A lot. We have a number of things that we are chasing. We have a good lineup so far. We have incoming house. What likely I should say incoming house Republican chair by Turner for the intelligence committee, congressman Pete Aguilar, highest ranking Hispanic in Congress now in the new democratic leadership. He will be joining us for his first interview since his election to that position. And we'll talk to him about what that means in terms of his priorities. And former attorney general Eric holder will also be joining us to talk about a number of legal issues facing the Justice Department. All right, Margaret, have
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Steve Bannon Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
"Steve Bannon has been convicted of refusing to show up and refusing to honor a subpoena. To Congress. So Bannon was summoned before the January 6th kangaroo court and like a God fearing American patriot. Steve Bannon told them where they could stick that subpoena. And now the latest information coming out of Washington is Bannon just moments ago. Was found guilty of two counts of contempt of Congress. And he is facing a four month sentence and a $6500 fine. Now, the Biden the Biden administration wanted him to spend 6 months in jail, and they wanted a $200,000 fine, Bannon is going to be able to stay free while he appeals the judges, the judges ruling. Each contempt of Congress count carries a minimum of 30 days in a maximum of one year in prison. Now, here's what you need to know about this. There is a double standard when it comes to justice in our nation's capital, ladies and gentlemen. There's one set of rules for the Democrats and another set of rules for everybody else. And I say this because former Obama attorney general Eric holder faced the exact same charge as Steve Bannon, except a little bit worse because Eric holder was accused of harboring documents and Eric holder was also accused like Bannon of refusing to honor a subpoena and show up to testify. But Eric holder was not sent to jail. Eric holder was not fined. Neither was Lois learner, one of the most evil women in America. The woman who single handedly attacked and personally audited pro life groups, Christian ministries, and yours truly.
The Officer Tatum Show
Steve Bannon Was Wrongly Convicted
"So Steve Bannon was being charged, he is charged with contempt of Congress. And we all have seen the justice system in these leftists environments where people can kill other people, people can burn down, buildings, people can do just about anything, sell drugs, use drugs, shoot up needles in front of everybody, you name it. A guy can threaten it to kill a Congress member. I mean, people can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're a Republican, and this political climate, they want to bury you. So article from Politico is his former attorney general Eric holder under Obama charged with contempt of Congress and nothing ever happened to him. This is facts. This is not Brandon Tatum just running his mouth. It says the house has voted to hold attorney general Eric holder contempt of Congress over his failure to turn over documents related to the Fast & Furious scandal. The first time Congress has taken such a dramatic move against a sitting cabinet official. The vote was 255 to 67 with 17 Democrats voting in support of the criminal contempt resolution, which authorized Republicans, leaders, Republican leaders, to seek criminal charges against holder. The Democrats support came despite a round of behind the scenes lobbying by Senate or senior White House and justice officials, as well as pressure from party leaders to support holder to Republicans, blank blank and blank blank. I don't want to say their name, a voted against the contempt resolution. Nothing happened holder. So we could draw the conclusion that nothing should happen to Steve Bannon.
WGN Radio
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Is to allow me a voluntary surrender without the humiliation of leg irons, which is very common. Let me tell you, say this, rich. It's like for white collar crime, the norm is voluntary surrender. It's not it's not like Gestapo tactics at the airport. And it's particularly appropriate in my case because there's no fraud alleged in my case. I'm not that kind of criminal. I just, it's like a technical violation. So they decided to go full metal jacket on me on Friday. And so I get out of bed more in hand breakfast. I'm on my way to Nashville to do the Mike Huckabee show. And they could have stopped me at my door. It could have taken me there. Instead, they let me get all the way to the airport, and as I go through the ticketing and get in the jet, what they call the jet way, right? They close everybody else in the back, trying to get on the plane and send three FDI agents behind me and two guys are waiting at the door of the plane and they rush me and you're under arrest, mister Navarre. Now, here's what's really important, rich. And this is going to I filed a motion on this today. This is going to become a key element in the case. One of the first things I said to the agent was that I wanted to call somebody for legal advice, which at that point I urgently needed, okay? And I said that more than once. It's like the Giordano. I want the call somebody to legal advice. And they denied me. That right. And then they gave me what I would say would be a informal reading of my Miranda rights. And they confiscated my phone, took me down out the gate down onto the tarmac, but slapped me in handcuffs. And then I went off to FBI headquarters. And then from there, this is where the real horror show. When I was with the FBI, I don't know, maybe 20 25 minutes, but they take me over to effectively this dungeon. You know what? Hold on to the dungeon. I want to hit a pause and then we'll come back and we'll pick up on the dungeon because I think this is, we want to give it enough time. Folks were on with Peter Navarro, former White House trade adviser to president Trump, Peter Navarro, was arrested last week. It treated like a criminal just for not complying with a congressional subpoena. Mind you, this is something that former attorney general Eric holder did, and he was never arrested. He was never put in handcuffs for anything, doing the same exact thing of being held in contempt of Congress. So there's more to come straight ahead, don't move a muscle. It's the Jim bohannon show. I'm rich Valdez, our guest, is Peter Navarro, and the phone number 8 6 6 5 O 5 four 6 two 6 8 6 6 5 O Jimbo if you want to chat with Navarro or me, we're open to that. More to come straight ahead, Jimbo Han and Joe on Westwood one. My heart was racing just making spaghetti. I could have waited to tell my doctor, but I didn't wait. I was short of breath just reading a book. I could have delayed telling my doctor, but
WNYC 93.9 FM
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"This is all things considered from NPR news I'm Michelle Martin We're going to spend some time thinking about the ripple effects of that Supreme Court draft opinion that shocked the country when it was leaked earlier this month It signaled that the justices are poised to overturn the decision that legalized abortion roe V wade the leak of the draft opinion has reignited debates over the power of the high court and whether it needs reform But it's not the first action by the court to provoke that debate It's just the latest And one person who's thought a lot about this is former attorney general Eric holder Holder who served in the Obama administration and was the first African American to serve in that position is just out with a new book it's called our unfinished march And in it he argues in favor of changes including significant change to the process for appointing justices When we spoke he told me what brought him to that conclusion The Shelby county case in 2013 where the court essentially gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act which is the pearl of the civil rights movement And did so in a way that was inconsistent with the findings that Congress had made thousands of pages of evidence thousands of pages of testimony near unanimous authorization or reauthorization in Congress both at the House of Representatives in the Senate Signed by or the reauthorization signed by a Republican president and yet 5 justices decided to turn their backs on all of that And came up with a rationale as expressed by the chief justice that America has changed The court has shown itself I think to be ideological not necessarily partisan but ideological in a way that's inconsistent with what their duties are And that's one of the reasons why I wanted to write the book And you're very correct in saying my concerns about the Supreme Court predate anything that the court might do with roe versus wade You offer very specific proposals to reform the court One is to institute 18 year term limits Another is to ensure that every president picks two justices in each term that they are in office given what you know about Washington and giving it what you know about the politics of the current moment and politics in recent years why would people who think that they're winning by entities ideas They won't agree to it I mean that's just the reality But the reality also is that they are in the minority And that's what people need to remember You know we talk about a variety of things in the book Gerrymandering you know you look at partisan gerrymandering which allows for these unpopular not popularly supported abortion laws that anti abortion laws that the court is now considering Because of gerrymandering you can as a state representative vote for an anti abortion law that you know your constituents don't support and not face any electoral consequence And so it's incumbent upon those of us in the majority here to express ourselves as we talk about in the book as other people ordinary citizens so called ordinary citizens have in the past When we have had systemic problems systemic changes that were necessary to implement I still think that capacity exists within the American people to become involved and to be change agents in the way that our predecessors have been But understand there will be fierce opposition from that minority But what exactly should people do right now You could see the argument that some have made In fact frankly people who are progressives have made And that other people have made is that this is a political failure on the part of Democrats and progressives in failing to focus on state legislatures in the way that Republicans have in failing to focus on the court as a galvanizing issue in the way that conservatives had and this is the end result So if that's the case what do people do Well you know some of that criticism is justified And so what do we do Get in the game Get off the bench So it's a question of being active being engaged understanding that elections matter even when there's not a president that we are in the process of selecting What you said is exactly right Focusing on elections at the state and local level are just as important as what happens at the federal level And I would actually argue that state legislatures have an impact a greater impact on the day to today life of American citizens than the United States Congress does And we need to understand that and focus our attentions on those lower level so called lower level elections That was the former attorney general Eric holder He is out with a new book It's called our unfinished march the violent past and imperiled future of the vote a history a crisis and a plan in its out now Mister turney general thank you so much for talking with us once again All right thanks for having me And finally today back in early 2020 Florence Welch and members of her band Florence and the machine were about a week into recording a new album when the pandemic shut everything down So like many of us back then Welsh the band's front woman and vocal powerhouse went home in her case to London to figure out how to cope with the new reality The result of that period of force stillness and isolation is out now It's called dance fever and as you will hear it's like cathartic boisterous and yet wide ranging album.
Lex Fridman Podcast
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"Is that okay, you're black. You say you're black, you're black. You got elected. Now we have a black president. A black president. You can do stuff that nobody else could do. You're a black president. You could tell the people burning down the city to get their butts back in their houses and to stop it. You know? You could tell the race hustlers, the Al sharptons of the world. Not only has our time come for those who supported my campaign, your time is over for those who want to carry on an advocacy rooted in racial grievance. The election of myself to this highest office proves that the institution of the state are legitimate and open to all comers. I think Barack Obama when the SHIT hit the fan, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon. I deeply regret that he said that. He's president of the United States, the color of his skin and the color of Trayvon skin. The correlation between those two things. If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon, now he says, when he said it, he only meant to sympathize with the parents. But in fact, when he said it from the highest office in the land, and then sent his attorney general Eric holder out to enforce this narrative, he doubled down on a racial narrative that I think is actually false. I think the story that systemic racism in America as reflected in policing that terrorizes black people because of the color of the skin is demonstrably false. I think that the central threat to black lives is violent crime, perpetrated largely by black people against other black people. I think there is such a thing as police brutality and I think there are reasons to have regulations of police, but I think it is a second order issue. In terms of the quality of life of African Americans, I think Obama could have told the people who, after Freddie gray, died in police custody and a van in Baltimore and undertook to burn that city down to get their asses off the street and go back to their apartments to stop it. I think he could have said in the aftermath of Michael Brown being shot dead by Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, and there was a grand jury deliberation that elected not to indict officer Wilson. And people took the streets in that city and stood on top of vehicles and so forth and so on. He could have told them we don't mob around courthouses in this country. We respect the rule of law, get your butts off the streets and back into your apartments. He didn't do that. So to push back a little bit. Yeah, good. Push back. I think you're asking Barack Obama the first black president of the United States to do the thing that I think should be done by the second black president of the United States. I think his very example, given the color of his skin, was the most powerful thing..
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"How did your parents feel about you being a part of those student protests? I mean, here you were, like, I'm sure they saved money and worked hard. Make sure you got a good education, which you did. You went to Columbia, one of the best universities in the country. And then what are you doing? You're part of an uprising. On campus. Did they think of you as being really ungrateful both to the university and to them and to your country? I can encapsulate their reaction in this story. Somebody comes to my dorm room the night of the takeover and says, hey, we're taking over the ROTC office. We're going to form a lounge, you know? It's going to be for black kids. And so I'm there. I go. Just go, leave my dorm room and I'm there. The next day, I have to come back, get some clothes because we figure this is going to be a long siege. And my phone rings. And it's my mother. And she says, hey, what's going on up at Columbia? I understand some black kids have taken over the ROTC office. And I said, yeah, I'm one of them, mom, and she's like, yo, what? And she gave it to me like, I didn't raise you to do this kind of thing. Your father and I save money so that you go to this really great school. You worked hard in high school and you're going to put it all at risk for some stupid thing like a black lounge. I don't want you going back there. And I got out of the conversation, got my clothes and went back to the lounge, but you asked what my reaction my parents reaction was. Luckily, my father wasn't on the phone. My mother is excited as she was, didn't threaten me in any way, other than to express extreme disappointment in my father, probably would have said, I'm going to come in and break your neck if you try to go back there..
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"And he was taken from us too soon, but the reading of that book made me understand how lucky I was to live as close to him as I did not only regret that in some ways that as the young guy that I was. I didn't fully comprehend then the greatness that was so near to me. Let me reintroduce you if you're just joining us. My guess is Eric holder, who was attorney general, under president Obama and is now in addition to being in private practice. He is the chair of the national democratic redistricting committee. His new book is called our unfinished march. The violent past and imperiled future of the vote. We'll be right back. This is fresh air. Your parents were from Barbados. You grew up in Manhattan or in Queens? In Queens. Queens in New York. Did your view of America growing up in New York City, differ from your parents having moved here to the U.S.? I think different in this way. My parents as immigrants loved this country unquestioningly. My father came here as a 13, 14 year old boy. His mother moved here a couple of years before him, then sent for him and his sister. And he always thought this was the greatest country in the world. No questions asked. He served in World War II, and while he was in uniform in this country, first in North Carolina, he was told to get to back of a bus while in uniform in war. While he was in Kansas, I'm sorry in Oklahoma. He was told to go to the back of a luncheonette to get a hamburger or something like that again in war while he was in uniform. Those for me, the child of the 60s, would have been shattering consequential. Differing ways in which I might have viewed my nation. But for him, they were simply things that had to be overcome. And so that was, I think, the difference between us. I grew up born in the early 50s, come of age in the 60s when we were questioning everything. And it was something that presented a bit of a schism between me and my father. Again, I questioned everything. It wasn't that he questioned nothing. He was a proud black man, and he understood that there was a need for progress. But he really had a faith in this country that was unshakable..
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"You watched Malcolm X get assassinated Martin Luther King, medgar Evers, you saw a tax on citizens just standing up for their right to vote. As the first African American attorney general, who was serving under the first African American president. Did you think a lot about assassination threats because you were at a very impressionable age when black leaders were getting killed? And I don't know if I've hit on a very sensitive subject that might be difficult to discuss, but I thought I'd ask. Yeah, it is not something that you allow to be front of mind. Because it could be a crippling thing. And yet, yeah, there are those thoughts. I grew up, as you said, at a time when medgar Evers was killed when doctor king, who was killed. When civil rights workers, James chaney, Andrew Goodman, Mickey schwerner, were killed when John Lewis was beaten. Interestingly, Malcolm X lived on in 97th street in 23rd avenue in Queens. I lived on a 101st street in 24th avenue in Queens. He lived four blocks away from me. I knew Malcolm X's house. I first saw Muhammad Ali. He was in cassius clay in front of Malcolm X's house and got an autograph from him. That's just a little side note there. And so it's not something that I talked about much with Barack rather than kiddingly, every once in a while. But it was something that we were cognizant of. He was ably protected by the Secret Service. I was ably protected by the FBI, and I think there was some extra measures that were taken that we don't really discuss, but I felt that with the protection that I had, I didn't have to focus on those concerns and I could just go about doing my job. Did having Malcolm X live just a few blocks away from you, make him this iconic figure more real to you. He wasn't somebody on TV. Only. His home you'd pass it in your neighborhood. And I'm sure you might have felt the shock of his assassination more as a result of being. And so in such close proximity to his home, what impact did that have on you? You know, it's an interesting question because I did see him occasionally. And not a great deal, but occasionally. And he was just this guy who had a funny last name. I totally understand that as a kid. Different religion, he didn't go to any of the churches in my neighborhood. But I understood that he was a man of significance and a person who was to be respected, even if my father who didn't agree with, you know, who Malcolm was and the things that he espoused. I heard that in my house as well. It wasn't until his assassination after his assassination. And I got to high school, and I read the autobiography of Malcolm X that I really understood. The significance of him, the greatness of him, and the promise of him that was taken from us. That is a book that I considered probably the most influential book that I've ever read. But I think he was poised to be much more important figure for the world at large and for white Americans at large..
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Let's get back to my interview with Eric holder. He was attorney general under president Obama. His new book is called our unfinished march, the violent past and imperiled future of the vote. You know, you said that you started to think of the court as being more ideological, not more partisan, but more ideological. Now we're expecting the Supreme Court to basically. Undo roe V wade because we had a preview of the decision. Now it's only a draft, but it's likely to the final versions like to be likely to be a variation of that draft. What are your impressions of the Supreme Court now in the light of that likely decision? Yeah, I mean, I don't think we're likely to see the opinion that was leaked that had that caustic, heated over the top language. I'd be very surprised if much of that opinion itself survives or the language of that opinion survives. I think it's likely on the other hand that you will probably get 5 justices who will vote overturn roe versus wade. And that'll be a seismic thing for this country. And I think a continuation of the court acting in an ideological way. You know, the court is supposed to respect precedent. Apply facts to that precedent. And then jurisprudential come up with an appropriate decision. I think what the court is doing here is deciding by personnel. The only thing that's different about the cases or the Mississippi case, the Mississippi abortion case at the court is deciding in other cases that are coming before it. Not the facts necessarily. I mean, these kind of statutes would have been slapped down quite easily by a prior court. The only thing that's changed is who's on the court. And that's a really dangerous thing. Precedent is the glue for our judicial system. If you replace that with who serves on the courts, what is the majority of Democrat Democrats or Republican appointees or conservatives and liberal if that becomes the focus, then you get what I think the nation is about to experience. It's the first time ever that we have had a right taken away from the people of this country. This is something that people have relied on for almost 50 years. And we're going to see a sea change in the way in which women's reproductive issues are dealt with in a wide swath of this country. You were an advocate of marriage equality. Do you think that the basis of the Supreme Court's probable abortion decision, you know, the draft of the abortion decision would lead to the overturning of marriage equality. Even though the draft says that this interpretation of privacy only applies to roe V wade, not to other decisions. But in another case, a code applied to other decisions, right?.
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"The question of race, the question of inherent implicit bias, but it's something that as a black man, I had to learn to deal with and then try to try to navigate. And so if you were in the 5th floor of the Justice Department with me and you were part of my staff, you would have seen the real feelings that Eric holder was feeling on that day. If you'd seen me in the conference room when the cameras were there, you would have seen a much person speaking in much more measured tones, but trying to convey as best I could in those measured tones, the depth of the depth of my anger. You read that your silent protest against the court's decision was that you weren't going to appear in that Supreme Court. During your tenure as attorney general, what did that mean exactly? That you wouldn't ever walk into the court that you wouldn't want to argue a case yourself, which I'm not sure an attorney general ever would do anyways. Like, what did you not do that you might ordinarily have done? Yeah, it's actually a tradition that every attorney general argues at least one case before the United States Supreme Court. The solicitor general. I didn't know that. Yeah, this list of general as I say in the book picks basically the easiest case that's up for the term. So that the attorney general will go in there, have to deal with the easiest questions and get a close to guaranteed victory. And I actually kind of looked forward to the possibility of arguing before the court. When I was the Deputy Attorney General, I remember watching Janet Reno go to the court and you have to wear the appropriate clothes. And she had what she described as a pretty good interaction with the court. And of course, she won. I didn't want to do my argument during the first term out of concern that something might be said or characterized. It might hurt the president, so I was going to wait for the second term. And after Shelby county, which happened in the second term in 2013, I decided I was not going to go to the court given what I felt they had done in the Shelby county case. And in some ways, legitimize that tradition. I wanted to at least make clear among those who knew at the Justice Department that this attorney general was not going to argue a case before the Supreme Court. Solicitor general, people who had served as solicitor general before dawn, tried to convince me to do it. And I told him I just wasn't going to just wasn't going to go up there and argue a case. Let me reintroduce you if you're just joining us. My guest is Eric holder who served as attorney general under president Obama. His new book is called our unfinished march. The violent past and imperiled future of the vote. We'll.
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"They know. There is a part of me that does not want my name on that part. My entirety does not want to be in any way associated with that case. It's almost as if you would like dred Scott versus holder or something like that. I mean, it's an odious case. And it is not something that I want to ever be connected to, except for people to know it's something that I think was wrongly decided. And had an extremely negative impact on our democracy. But I never refer to the case as Shelby county V holder. It is only the Shelby county case. You said that you were chagrined by the Supreme Court's decision. In your book, you say, this decision made you angry, angry, then you ever were as attorney general. Are there what are the best channels of appropriately addressing your anger when your attorney general? And did you ever worry that if you express too much anger, you would be portrayed as an angry black man? Yeah, well, I mean, what I tried to do was channel the anger that I felt immediately by calling to the Justice Department the next day. The heads of all the major civil rights organizations to the conference room on the 5th floor are the Justice Department. And in essence, say, I disagree with the opinion that the court has rendered..
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Disproportionate and negative impact on people of color who didn't have access to photo ID didn't own cars to the same degree that their white counterparts did. If they didn't possess a photo ID, they could go to a place and get one issued to them, but in order to do so, you had to have backup materials, birth certificates, things of that nature. And what Texas says, we'll make that available to you, but in order to do it, you have to pay $22. And we said, well, that's almost like a poll tax. You're going to make people who don't just have photo ID, perhaps you don't possess a driver's license. You're going to make them pay $22 to come up with the way in which they can obtain that photo ID. And judges in Texas had voted at the trial court level, had said that the position of the Justice Department was in fact one that was justified. And you were able to do that because of the Voting Rights Act. Texas hat was a covered jurisdiction and the changes that they wanted to make in their voting procedures was something that we could examine under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. What was your role in arguing the case? In the Supreme Court in Shelby versus holder, your name is on the case, because you were the head of the Justice Department. So what did it mean to have your name on the case? And what role did you actually play in the case itself? Yeah, the case was argued by our very able solicitor general Don varelli. And as he prepared the briefs and actually went to the oral argument, he said, Eric, I actually think that we're going to have a problem here that the court may rule with Shelby county. And I thought, well, this is a litigator speaking to me..
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"A part of that. While you were attorney general, there was the now famous case, Shelby versus holder, where Shelby Alabama challenged the constitutionality of part of the Voting Rights Act. So just to refresh people's memories, explain what that case was about. Yeah, the Shelby county versus holder case arose in 2013. Shelby county, Alabama, filed a lawsuit that essentially challenged what's called the coverage formula in the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which has legitimately been called the pearl of the civil rights movement. There is a coverage formula within the act that sets out the basis by which certain jurisdictions are covered. And if they are covered, then they have to if they want to make changes in their voting procedures, they had to go to the Justice Department to get something that's called preclearance. People in the Justice Department and the civil rights division would look at the proposed change and if it didn't impinge on the rights of the citizens in the jurisdiction would pre clear it approve it. If there were problems, we try to work them out. He couldn't be worked out in the Justice Department had the ability to file a lawsuit. The folks in Shelby county challenged whether or not that formula was still valid. It had been put together in 1965. This is now 2013. And the Supreme Court in a 5 to four decision sided with Shelby county and said that the coverage formula was not historically correct. And that therefore, the ability of the Justice Department to pre clear that which shall be county wanted to do was unconstitutional. The problem with the Supreme Court ruling, chief justice Roberts, a very famously said in the majority opinion that America has changed, which was definitely true. The America of 2013 was fundamentally different and better than the America in 1965. But America had not come far enough. And as a result of that decision, we saw very quickly states that previously had been covered by the act, putting into place a number of voter suppression mechanisms and techniques as then justice Ginsburg. I think presciently said, paraphrasing here a bit..
Fresh Air
"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on Fresh Air
"Determination to treat her son's eczema and grows into a family business. Kristen learned how on YouTube. This is fresh air. I'm Terry gross. My guest Eric holder became the first African American attorney general in 2009 when he was appointed by the first African American president Barack Obama. One of holder's priorities as AG was voting rights, but during his tenure and 2013 the Supreme Court gutted key parts of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, in the case Shelby county versus holder. Shelby county, Alabama, had challenged the provision of the Voting Rights Act that required preclearance, which meant states like Alabama with the history of discriminating against black voters, needed to receive clearance from the Justice Department before enacting any new voting laws. The Shelby decision, striking down that provision, opened the door to a slew of voting restrictions. After holder stepped down as attorney general on 2015, voting rights and election fairness remained a top priority. He founded the national democratic redistricting committee with the goal of reforming how state legislative maps are drawn to ensure their fair, not partisan, and ending the practice of gerrymandering. In his new book, holder asks what he describes as an existential question. How do we save democracy before it's too late? The book co written with Sam koppelman is called our unfinished march, the violent past, and imperiled future of the vote. Eric holder welcome to fresh air. I want to start in a similar way your book does. Take us back to when you were, I think you were 12. Watching a ports on the march on Selma across the Edmund pettus bridge, the march for voting rights in which people, including John Lewis, were beaten. By the police. Yeah, it was in 1963. I was 12 years old. I was in my basement of my small house in Queens looking at a black and white television. And witnessing what happened as marchers tried to go across the Edmund Pettis bridge..
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"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"With delays and so is NJ transits railroad and valley line with delays as well Mayor Eric Adams is calling on state lawmakers in Albany to extend mayoral control of New York City's public schools Jessica Gould as details Adam says after two years of trauma from the pandemic the city's students need consistency There needs to be stability and the surety that these young people are going to know what is going to happen in the upcoming school year Former mayor Michael Bloomberg rested control of the public school system from the board of education two decades ago to streamline governance and reduce corruption some critics say the move has made schools less accountable to parents and want reforms State lawmakers often extend mayoral control through the budget They didn't this year but they can still act before the legislative session ends in June New York lawmakers are likely to boost safety requirements for electric space heaters in response to The Bronx fire that killed 17 people in January the state Supreme Court approved a series of fire safety bills yesterday in Albany one would require all electric portable heaters to have a thermostat and an automatic shutoff feature to be sold in New York The assembly hasn't yet committed to putting the measures to vote but Bronx assembly member Kenny Burgos is the sponsor of the space heater Bill and he says he believes the assembly will pass it soon I think we're going to be good I've spoken even with the numbers on these other side of the aisle I think they agree with the bill We made some amendments to make sure there weren't any unintended consequences of the bill So I think it should be a smooth sailing process Faulty space heater caused a deadly January fire at the twin parts northwest apartment building in The Bronx's fordham heights neighborhood The Pittsburgh penguins blew out the rangers last night and now New York faces elimination from hockey Stanley Cup playoffs the final score of Pittsburgh 7 New York two rangers defensive Jacob trouba said the team has to put the loss behind it It takes four to win a series We've got to move on from it This doesn't matter if you lose one nothing or you lose what we just did tonight game's over move on to the next game Game 5 tomorrow night at the garden Sunny gusty with winds near 30 miles an hour today and a high of 69 we dropped to 50 overnight mostly sunny near 70 tomorrow 56 in sunnydale at 8 O 7 Support for NPR comes from LifeLock by Norton reminding consumers that sensitive info sent online can lead to identity theft Learn more at LifeLock dot com slash NPR On the next Brian there show former United States attorney general Eric holder who served under president Obama He's got a new book about voting rights called our unfinished march the violent past and imperial future of the vote a history of crisis a plan We'll see what Eric holder's voting rights plan is We'll ask if he's got a plan for abortion rights too The Brian Lara show at 10 a.m. on WNYC So it's morning edition from NPR news I am Martinez Los Angeles California And I'm Steven skeet in Washington D.C. What do Republicans do if they finally get what they want on abortion The party is campaigned to overturn roe versus wade for decades The Supreme Court now seems very close to doing that and that throws the field open for potential legislation Senate Democrats already plan a vote to make abortion rights into law which is very unlikely to pass but reflects their position Some Republicans have talked about state or even national abortion bans which would be very unpopular NPR senior political editor and correspondent domenico montanaro is tracking the Republican approach to medical Good morning Hey good morning Steve Is this a goal that was easier for Republicans to advocate than to actually deal with if they accomplish it Well you know abortions run those issues where surveys tell us there's a lot of common ground but you know it's been an issue I think you're alluding to here that's been the culture war issue for Republicans in firing up their base for the better part of the past 50 years You know there's a real open question now about what the Republican Party does nationally if the Supreme Court does go ahead and overturn roe V wade which made abortion legal in this country About two thirds of people say in survey after survey that they want row to be upheld and for abortion to be legal in this country but with restrictions And that's where Republicans are trying to deflect to Away from the idea that roe V wade would be overturned and pushed Democrats on restrictions instead Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell had this to say on the Senate floor yesterday Today's Democratic Party is profoundly out of step with the American people on this issue They're extreme position ignores modern science and public opinion Leader shooter wants the Senate to vote again on a democratic bill that would effectively legalize abortion on demand through all 9 months Let's check that There is a bill Democrats plan a vote on it It's a bill they voted on before Would it actually be abortion on demand for 9 months Right the women's health protection act this is called And this democratic bill doesn't really say does not really say that it would allow abortion in the third trimester in all or even most cases with the Bill says is that after viability which is about 23 to 24 weeks that a pregnant person would be allowed to get an abortion if there's a quote good faith medical judgment of the treating healthcare provider that the quote pregnancy would pose a risk to the.
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"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on All In with Chris Hayes
"Dying in florida funeral. Funeral services are overwhelmed. It's a new intensity. These days people working in funeral homes. Don't have time to talk. They're overwhelmed with families trying to bury their loved ones in numbers like they've never seen before sometimes. They have to delay funerals because they don't have the staff or vehicles to do them. We are at capacity to where we've never been before at westside crematory and winter garden. They're also overwhelmed. The area where bodies are stored prior to being cremated as stacked to the ceiling. We were there when a funeral home brought a body to be cremated. Sometimes they tell us there's a line four vans deep and there seems to be no end in sight. We're at the point where we're hoping that the state will step in and Supply some refrigeration. The situation is dire across the south in mississippi. The state with the second lowest vaccination rate in the country hospitals are dangerously stressed one hospital in gulfport had to cancel brain and heart surgeries between because cova patients are taking up all of that hospitals. Icu beds an emergency room. Nurse at a small rural hospital told lemme see about the horror that she is seeing a daily basis. It's been a nightmare. We're seeing very sick patients we have. We don't have enough staff to take care of these patients where having to double them open rams. Were running out of supplies. I've never in my life to have the where i out and see and the things that i'm having to see. We were to the point. Where hard decisions were having to be. Made on. Who got a ventilator. I'd just couldn't imagine pregnant my family here and nothing could be done because we didn't have it. It's not something that should happen. And it's all. I think it's all preventable. Yes what makes all of this even more tragic more maddening. Is that most of what we are. Seeing could be prevented just by getting a vaccine. A free safe effective and widely available vaccine. So please please. If you're watching us if you or someone you love still hasn't been vaccinated been putting it off. There's never been a better time than now. Former attorney general. Eric holder joins me next. The fate of american politics for the next decade is being determined right now in the next few months but i mean by that is the redistricting process already. Underway statehouses across the.
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"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on KOMO
"Heizer said to stay in the fifties and the coma, Weather Center meteorologist Kristen Clarke were up to 57 degrees. Under partly cloudy skies downtown has sent 36 A man was shot at a small park into coma. Overnight shooting happened just after midnight near Right Avenue and Sawyer Street, the 21 year old may not survive. So far, no arrests have been made. Some Seattle car owners have a big mess to clean up in the Beacon Hill neighborhood, where damaged cars are lined up and down 19th Avenue south between Stevens and South Horton Street overnight was when the damage seemed to have occurred as many a 17 cars damaged. This may be connected to another crime. Seattle police are investigating in that area. The race for Seattle mayor is heating up. Current Deputy Mayor Casey six killer has entered the race, saying he wants his kids to grow up in a city that turns the values of inclusion, fairness and equity into action. This is a moment that will define the future of Seattle. It requires fresh ideas, bold actions. Had a mirror that wakes up every day ready to fight for the future We want for Seattle. Other candidates running for mayor include Seattle City Council President Loretta Gonzalez, former Seattle City Council president Bruce Harrell and former Seattle supersonic James Donaldson. Seattle married Jenny Durkin, the current mayor, joining a meeting to discuss the future of gun violence, policing and voting rights under the Biden administration is being hosted by former U S. Attorney General Eric Holder set for three o'clock this afternoon. The city of Seattle has started removing the giant concrete blocks that have been surrounding the police departments East Precinct on Capitol Hill. The blocks had been put in place last summer because the precinct was a target of rioters and Vandals. The sidewalk along pine is open again, and this man walked into it walked it to it for the first time, and once someone who lives in the neighborhood. I think that it's good to see them coming down because it Feels less adversarial than these giant concrete blocks that are like literally a wall between us and the police. Last.
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"attorney general eric holder" Discussed on NewsRadio WIOD
"Now, here's the man who's been recognized his radio's best, the recipient of not one but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast excellence, the one and only Bill Cunningham. It's kind of refreshing to learn that this week that Democrats left winger Like Nancy Pelosi support police there against mob violence. They believe in guns. They went low in order they believe in a harsh punishment for riders. They believe in now in the peaceful transfer of power, which they did in 2016. That they believe somehow that that the National Guard now they're not stormtroopers anymore. Their defenders I'm welcome to the party. I we I agree. What happened to the capital was outrageous. It was. It was an insurrection. It was armed, so to build gallows in front of the Capitol, someone went there at a at a at a protest, and they brought pipe bombs and weapons, nails and hammers and two by fours helmets. And then they invaded. The Senate tried to get into the house floor itself got into the got into the to the public areas up on top, But what they did in the Senate was outrageous. And so how's it possible? That Washington D. C wasn't ready for this. The answer is, the chief of police said. This doesn't happen. Trump rallies But what happened this summer with anti fun? Black lives matter in front of the White House, arson, looting, crime viciousness, downtown Chicago Denver. Same thing. Awful terrible. Some levels of violence are acceptable. My city and municipal governments and others are not all levels should be traded the same. I'm not excusing all of it. None of it. Two wrongs Don't make a right. Back to the calls. We'll go to Florida and Scott than many others. And, uh, it's interesting here in the middle of January to be talking about while the ballot box and September October the work of the legislators in the states have got to begin now. So they're fully lady gave in and decided that the state legislators determine the legislative branch of government in the stage, determine the means the method in the manner of elections. Not election officials not to Secretary State, not a state court judge and is the by law. The state legislative branches determine that and now is the time the lock in concrete the rules and get them all away, peeled up to the U. S. Supreme Court so and the off year elections we know who can and can't vote. Unless it's done the way Ohio, Florida and Texas does it. Mail in balloting stinks. There's got to be identifiable rules. So you know who's voting? Go to Scott in Florida. Scott in Florida. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show and Scott, How are you coming in? Thank you for taking my call. Uh, there's a real double standard. Here is his clearance Stay. Look. If the FBI and Homeland security want to persecute and prosecute pro Trump protesters, then they must per persecute and prosecute George sorrows who is the evil mastermind behind the antifa, Black lives matter and any other Communist movements that have a ruthless determination. Make America Communist country also Mr Coming? I'd like to say that just like the Bolsheviks overthrew Czar Nicholas, the second of Russia in 1917 Make no mistake. Sorrow, streams of overthrowing American democracy and creating a Communist utopia. Nightmare is born like it and I just want to finish up by saying that furthermore, Charles Schumer. Adam Shift Carry now the in Chicago. Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show, Eddie Go ahead. Yeah, pretty thing, Bill. Well, you remember what attorney General Eric Holder said. When they go low? We kicked him. And they stormed this. You I see, uh Rally four years ago here in Chicago. They had a clear, everybody. This is our orchestrated by Robbie Manual. All the media didn't jump on that. There's a double standard. Well, Annie, let me ask you this. What is the status if I would find myself tomorrow afternoon? And the magnificent mile on Michigan Avenue at the water tower. What is the condition now? Downtown Chicago. Oh, my God. It's like a ghost town. It's terrible. Well, I mean, is a boarded up. Oh, yeah, of course bordered hours. It's boarded up. Yeah. Now the other autonomous zones in which citizens black and white and Hispanic do not want to travel because of a fear of violence. I can imagine. What's happening in downtown Chicago is exactly the same stuff that's happening in many major American cities completely controlled by the Democrat Party, But it's never covered by the mainstream media. It doesn't exist. No, it's got to be something. They're only gonna be covering Republicans and what's gonna happen with Latino and black conservatives. They're gonna be called racist, too. How about this? I have a couple of courtship and Joe Biden, who talks about civility. Joe Biden during the campaign about Trump said, quote. I'd smack him right in the mouth. And also, he said, quote. I take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of Trump. So that's the guy talking about civility. It might be more palatable. If Joe Biden had a record. I'm not saying violent things about the president. Could you imagine if some Republican had said about Barack Hussein Obama? I'm going to smack him in the mouth. I'm gonna take Obama out behind the gym and beat the hell out of him. Oh, yeah, It's just the media done covered. Billion. Yeah, And how about this one U. S. Attorney for D. C. Ah, fine man named Michael Sherwin. Said law enforcement officials are treating last week's capital riot like an international counterterrorism investigation. We're looking at it. How about taking the same attitude about black lives matter, inking and TIFA? Locked up Seattle and tried to kill police set them on fire alive in a police station. You would think maybe the authorities in Seattle Portland might say what the hell's going on or what would happen in those cities if Trump supporters Had done the same thing in teeth I was doing..
The Young Turks
Fired Tyson manager defends COVID-19 bets as morale booster
"Earlier we shared a story involving the waterloo tyson meat packing plant and how it's facing wrongful. Death lawsuits from the family members of employees who died as a result of contracting corona virus. Well seven managers at that plant have been fired and one of them is speaking out because he thinks it's important for everyone to know that they're not bad people there actually great people who were just trying to make the work environment fun especially when they were taking bets on how many of their employees would get sick by contracting corona virus so former tyson manager don merged mersch brock said managers conducted the office pool last spring within minutes following mass testing of the plants. Roughly twenty eight hundred workers county officials said last may that more than one thousand workers tested positive for the virus which hospitalized several and killed at least six now. The family members of four of the employees who had died are suing in wrongful death suits and merce brock says. No i mean we're not again. We're not bad people. we're just trying to boost morale. This is exact quote he tells the associated press. it was a group of exhausted supervisors. That had worked so hard and so smart to solve many unsolvable problems. It was simply something fun. Kind of a morale boost for having put forth an incredible effort. There was never any malicious intent. It was never meant to disparage anyone and just to give you some more details on what this pool entailed again. It was a pool among managers at this meat packing plant in waterloo iowa. The office pool involve roughly fifty dollars in cash which went to the winner who picked the correct percentage of workers testing positive for the virus. He also added that. Those involved didn't believe the pool violated company policy and that plants. Positively and the plants positivity rate would be lower than the community rate due to their mitigation efforts. So let me just quickly mentioned with. The mitigation efforts were Based on the allegations these lawsuits there were none. The employees are alleging that they were told by their employers to ignore any symptoms that they may have as a result of contracting corona virus They were pressured to continue working. And they were of course packed into tight quarters as they were working with no social distancing and again the allegations include the fact. They didn't provide protective gear like masks to prevent contracting the virus. So those are the mitigation efforts that this former manager who's been fired from tyson wants to point to so guys. I don't want you to miss something really important in this story Which is a tyson china. Whitewash what's happening here by blaming the managers so it doesn't mean the managers weren't guilty of and i i mean i don't mean that in a legal sense i just mean in a sense of moral culpability. No you should not bet on. How many workers are going to get sick by the way it turns out. The crack number was a thousand thousand of their workers. Got corona virus. Six died so four of the deceased family. Members are suing. Now and so tight. That manager says something abhorrent about how oh just boosting morale talking about how the workers are gonna die. How many of them are gonna get sick spot for us managers. I don't think that's fun and i. If that's what boosts morale for managers that's pretty sick having said that the real culpable people here is is the company because that measure says look they told us solve this unsolvable problem and that he's right they say okay don't take precautions Shoves all back into a building where we know. They're likely to get corona virus and then afterwards will blame you guys For not getting enough production and having too many people get sick but wait a minute was executives decisions not even the managers but executives higher in the company that made that decision so are they more culpable absolutely and so in this particular case. What do they do. And this is what drives me crazy again about the press. They hire former attorney. General eric holder to do a whitewashing effort. And he says yes. The managers are guilty but the company's fine what they paid them to say that he's a lawyer i get it. He has a job. His job is to help companies avoid lawsuits etc so holders during his job but but the press should not give any weight to the fact that he's a former attorney general he was hired a whitewash he whitewashed and the and they make. It all. Seem like only the manager's fault. no it's in this case. It's tyson spalte. Forgiving them can manage irs shoved them back in their. Don't take the precautions. The only thing that matters the bottom line and then go. Oh golly gee they made a bet. I can't believe they did that. It's only therefore and not our fault. Nonsense
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Tyson Foods fires 7 managers over COVID-19 betting allegations
"Hasten foods has fired seven top managers at its largest pork plants in Waterloo, Iowa. That's after in independent vested Gatien into allegations that they bet on how many workers would test positive for the coronavirus. Well, you're saying managers started a pool to wager on positive cases and I'll break their infected at least 1000 employees. Six people died. Tyson Foods hired former U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder to lead the
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Tyson suspends managers over COVID-19 betting claims
"Tyson Foods is hiring former U S Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate accusations that plant managers in Waterloo took bets on how many workers would get Cove in 19. Those managers have been suspended without pay. After the accusations were included in a lawsuit. The Star Herald reports. Workers reacted by walking off the job Thursday afternoon. The lawsuit claims managers organized the winner take all betting pool and instructed other managers to ignore covert 19 symptoms during an outbreak at the plant in April.
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Tyson hires former AG Eric Holder to investigate claims of betting on worker COVID infections
"Former U S Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate accusations that plant managers in Waterloo took that son how many workers would get Cove in 19? Those managers have been suspended without pay. After the accusations were included in a lawsuit. The Star Herald reports. Workers reacted by walking off the job Thursday afternoon. The lawsuit claims managers organized the winner take all betting pool and instructed other managers to ignore covert 19 symptoms during an outbreak at the plant in April. Florida could
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Biden assembles legal team ahead of divisive 2020 election
"Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is assembling a team of top lawyers in anticipation of court challenges surrounding the upcoming November election the Biden presidential campaign says it's assembling a war room of sorts to make sure elections are properly administered and votes are correctly counted among those on the team former solicitor generals to president Obama and Clinton and former Attorney General Eric holder president trump who's already cast doubt on the election predicting mail in ballot fraud also has a team of campaign attorneys it's a sign of the preparations under way for an already divisive presidential contest which could require court intervention to determine the winner of the race for the White House Jackie Quinn Washington
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Biden assembles legal team ahead of divisive 2020 election
"Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is assembling a team of top lawyers in anticipation of court challenges surrounding the upcoming November election the Biden presidential campaign says it's assembling a war room of sorts to make sure elections are properly administered and votes are correctly counted among those on the team former solicitor generals to president Obama and Clinton and former Attorney General Eric holder president trump who's already cast doubt on the election predicting mail in ballot fraud also has a team of campaign attorneys it's a sign of the preparations under way for an already divisive presidential contest which could require court intervention to determine the winner of the race for the White House Jackie Quinn Washington
Rush Limbaugh
Barack Obama to address Floyd's death for first time on camera
"A former president participate in the my brother's keeper alliance M. town hall Sir is it part of his the foundation out there he'll be joined by police reform activists and public figures including his wing man a former Attorney General Eric holder this this will mark Obama's first on camera comments since the killing of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests it's gonna be a live streamed on Obama dot org beginning at five PM eastern
Sean Hannity
Revisiting Criminal Obstruction of Justice in the Impeachment Inquiry
"Twenty sixteen mana for was the chairman of the trump campaign anti corruption prosecutors in Ukraine disclosed that a pro Russia Russian political party and you're more payments from manta for it from an illegal slush fund manifold resigned from the campaign two weeks later do you crazy members of parliament and press for investigations into whether the prosecutor's revelation of payment records which were first published in The New York Times it violated Ukrainian laws that in some cases prohibit prosecutors from revealing evidence before trial both lawmakers asserted that if the release of the slush fund information broke the law that it would should be reviewed as an illegal effort to influence the United States presidential election in favor of Hillary now then I would then guide the not only that court decision I would then guide the director of the FBI to January eleventh twenty seventeen and politico that's where they discuss the NC operative contractor Alexander Chilumpha meeting with the Ukrainians in the Ukrainian embassy in Washington for the purpose they say in politico hardly a right wing outlet that for the purpose of getting dirt on trump and trump associates to help Hillary Clinton and that it all backfired because they backed the wrong horse and well Donald Trump one now they're in trouble so I'm not so I'm not sure why director ray is having a problem with this but him not knowing this to me is like the equivalent of Bob Muller not knowing what fusion GPS is or not knowing that genie ray was once Clinton's attorney at the Clinton foundation and by the way and now we're gonna get lectured by the wing man for Barack Obama Eric holder he's lecturing bill Barr about who's fit and not fit to be an Attorney General I guys so when the tank for Barack Obama that he called himself all bombers wing man is now complaining that the president's Attorney General bill Barr is not independent enough you got to be kidding me former Attorney General Eric holder Billy's bar is unfit to serve as the nation's top law enforcement officer writing in The Washington Post not bad a recent controversial comments you mean the
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Bloomberg taking steps to enter presidential race as a Democrat
"Former New York City Mayor. Mike Bloomberg appears to have taken the first steps to start a presidential campaign today the New York Times first to report that he dispatched staffers in the Great State of Alabama. Today which doesn't have a particularly doesn't have a particularly important role to play at this point in the Democratic primary. Hey but Alabama does have an early filing deadline for candidates getting their name on the ballot for the Democratic primary. So we'll be talking a little bit about that Bloomberg News later Iran tonight. That news is causing lots of buzz and interestingly lots of ripples of speculation about other Democratic candidates who might still still get in. If Mike Bloomberg's apparent move here can be seen as a sign that actually. It's not too late for more Democrats to get into the race to try to win this nomination nation. I will just mention that our Pulitzer Prize winning colleague Eugene Robinson reported online tonight that multiple sources have told. Excuse me that a single source has told him that. Former Attorney General Eric holder has been talking to strategists about whether he ought to get in the race as well again gene Robinson reporting matt tonight with a single source but if eric holder is potentially in the mix and Mike Bloomberg looks like he might be in the mix. Well Geez just when you thought it was all all over. It's never
Reveal
Democrats challenge 'brazen' gerrymandering of North Carolina voting maps
"To North Carolina now where Democrats have filed a lawsuit challenging the state's congressional maps from member station W. N. C. Jeff to bury reports on the latest gerrymandering challenge in the state the plaintiffs contend north Carolina's congressional map is so gerrymandered that it violates the state constitution and attorneys believe that a recent ruling bolsters their argument this lawsuit comes on the heels of a successful partisan challenge to state legislative maps in that case three state judges struck down nearly half of the legislature's districts in order them to be re drawn this latest lawsuit is being funded by the national democratic redistricting committee a political group formed by president Obama and former Attorney General Eric holder this is playing out in state court back in June the US Supreme Court ruled the issue of partisan gerrymandering is not for federal
All Things Considered
Democrats challenge 'brazen' gerrymandering of North Carolina voting maps
"In North Carolina Democrats have filed a lawsuit challenging the state's congressional maps from member station W. N. C. Jeff to bury reports this is the latest gerrymandering challenge in this state the plaintiffs contend north Carolina's congressional map is so gerrymandered that it violates the state constitution and attorneys believe that a recent ruling bolsters their argument this lawsuit comes on the heels of a successful partisan channel. to state legislative maps in that case three state judges struck down nearly half of the legislature's districts in order them to be re drawn this latest lawsuit is being funded by the national democratic redistricting committee a political group formed by president Obama and former Attorney General Eric holder this is playing out in state court back in June the US Supreme Court ruled the issue of partisan gerrymandering is not for
Chris Plante
Eric Holder to 2020 Democrats: 'Be wary of attacking the Obama record'
"In a keep your eyes on the prize moment Obama administration Attorney General Eric holder taking to Twitter to chastise the not so moderate contenders writing to my fellow Democrats be wary of attacking the Obama record build on it expand it but there is little to be gained for you at a party by attacking a very successful and still popular democratic president Bob Constantini
Washington Today
Trump invokes executive privilege over entire Mueller report
"And we begin at the White House where the president today asserting executive privilege over special counsel, Robert Muller's full report on Russia's interference in the twenty sixteen election, all of this intensifying clash with congress over its investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia. The move came just before the House Judiciary committee late this afternoon. Voting to hold of the attorney general Bill bar in contempt of congress for failing to turn over Muller's unredacted report and underlying materials, which the panel head subpoenaed. We are covering all of this. And we start with the House Judiciary committee hearing, and it's chairman Jerry Nadler of New York. Today, we consider report recommending that the house of representatives hold attorney general William bar in contempt of congress for defying valid subpoena issued by this committee. This is not a step. We take lightly. It is the combination of nearly three months of requests discussions and to go. She aviation's with the department of Justice for the complete unredacted report by special counsel mother into Russian interference in the two thousand sixteen election along with the underlying evidence. I appreciate the fact that the department responded to the offer we made to them last week and met with us yesterday in the last minute effort to reach an accommodation. We heard the department out responded to them in good faith. And after always said and done we unfortunately were still unable to reach agreement, and we proceeded with our markup today is I've said before we remain ready and willing to consider any reasonable offer made by the department even. After today's vote. But if a letter I received late last night from the department is any indication I am concerned that the department is heading in the wrong direction. In response to our latest good faith over the department of Brunton announced that if we move forward today, it would ask President Trump to invoke what it refers to protective assertion of executive privilege on all of them subject. Are subpoenaed just minutes ago took that dramatic step. Size misapplying the doctrine of executive privilege since the White House waved these privileges long ago and the department seemed open to sharing these materials with us. Just yesterday. This decision represents a clear esscalation the Trump administration's blanket defiance of congress constitutionally mandated duties. I hope that the department will think better this last minute outburst and return to negotiations as Coequal branch of government. We must have access to the materials that we need to feel our constitutional responsibilities in a manner consistent with past precedent. This is information we are legally entitled to receive. We are constitutionally obligated to review. And I would remind the members that the mullahs report is no ordinary run in the middle document details significant is conduct involving the president, including his campaigns willingness and eagerness to accept help from a hostile foreign government numerous misstatements if not outright lies concerning these act those acts and eleven separate incidents of struck the behavior by the president that more than seven hundred former prosecutors have told us warrant criminal indictment. If congress is not entitled with full unredacted Muller report, one must wonder what document we would be entitled to exhausted negotiations with the department of Justice have unfortunately left us back where we begin with unprecedented obstruction by the ministration that has now announces intention to block all the Thames congressional oversight of the executive branch. It is our constitutional duty to respond. Let me be clear if we request we are requesting entirely. Within our legal rights receive, and is no different from what is been provided to congress on numerous occasions going back nearly century. But we do not need to go back and forth to find a precedent. As recently as the last congress under Republican control, the department produce more than eight hundred eighty thousand pages of sensitive investigative interiors pretending to its investigation of Hillary Clinton as well as balloonists other material relating to the rush investigation and other ongoing investigations that production included highly classified material notes. FBI interviews internal text messages law enforcement memoranda. With respect to grand jury information in past cases involving Gatien's of presidential misconduct or misconduct by other high-ranking. Public officials the department of Justice as a matter, of course, the permission of a court through at least relevant information to congress if not to the public notably. This include several cases that were not impeachment inquiries, including the investigation into former agriculture secretary, Mike Espy and the Iran country investigations as well as other investigations that were not governed by the independent counsel law. But no matter the fact that the law and history clearly support the release the congress of this kind of information the Trump administration has taken obstruction of congress to new heights. Unfortunately, the attorney general has been all too willing to support the president in this endeavor. I would also like to respond to the concerns often raised by my good friend. The ranking member. Yes, how can the committee hold the attorney general in contempt for merely complying with the laws on the books, and how can we hold him in contempt when I have refused an offer to allow me to see certain redacted portions of the report, the answer's simple. I we issued a valid subpoena for the full report. And all of the underlying evidence department is come nowhere close to satisfying obligations under that subpoena. Those comments by the chair of the House Judiciary committee, Jerry Nadler of New York, again, the final vote along party line vote twenty four to sixteen and at the conclusion of the hearing chairman Nadler telling reporters, the US what he calls facing a constitutional crisis over the mullahs report from the Wall Street Journal there is this quote, the dispute centers around the unredacted version of the mullahs report and the underlying evidence some of which the Justice department says by law cannot provide because in. In part. It involves grand jury testimony that is secret Democrats subpoena the material last month saying it was necessary for congress to independently examined the material and the basis for Mr. molars findings. The journal goes on to write quote at the Trump administration's abroad, refusal to cooperate with any oversight request from democratic committees elevating tensions between the two branches to levels unseen since events of the magnitude of President Bill Clinton's impeachment, the Iran contra arms scandal during the Reagan White House and Watergate a move that invokes executive privilege is all but certain to provoke a constitutional challenge in the courts more details at wsJcom more from today's hearing Doug Collins is the ranking member of the House Judiciary committee. Mr this. The folks watching this log continues last week ours you and the fellow members of Jewish Democrats to respect the history of this committee business accordingly. We still have across southern border still. Feeling property here. We are wasting another bible week legislating calendar against the majority's war against the administration. Today, we are meeting to consider a resolution to hold attorney general Bill bar in contempt of congress. So let's take just a few moments and go through this. What is the justification for holding attorney general bar in contempt of congress for apps failed to abide by the special counsel regulation? No, he went above and beyond what the regulations far by transmitting the full report to congress with limited. Reductions could it be that the attorney general failed to accommodate the chairman's demands for information. No, he offered to let the chairman involve other democrat leaders review, the less redacted at the department of Justice, including a ninety nine point nine percent unredacted volume own strokes in an odd move for anyone demanding access to information. The chairman and the other elected Democrats giving access declined to view that report. Attorney general also volunteered to testify before this committee about the reports conclusions his role in sharing the report. And as we all witness, the democratic gangs force the attorney general to forego the schedule hearing last week on Monday just farm an offer to meet to discuss accommodations yesterday. They made a reasonable offer to avert this. And once again, they were rebuffed and the chairman the client, perhaps the end, the Democrats believe that there has been an unreasonable delay in the Justice farmers response to they're saying, no, that's not true. Either. In the chairman is moving to this contempt resolution at lightning speed. It has been less than twenty days since the chairman now subpoenaed documents from the Justice department when the oversight committee held Eric attorney general Eric Holder and content more than two hundred fifty days had passed between the subpoena and the committees vote to hold him in contempt more than four hundred and fifty days passed between the committee's initial request to the Justice department and the committee's contempt vote, dude Isra Democrats are moving more than ten times. Faster than oversight did with holder. They have moved from request to contempt vote in only forty three days. And yet the Justice department is still at the negotiating table waiting for the Democrats to arrive in good faith, while this rush without any valid legislative or administrative reason, we can only assume the Democrats that are led by the chairman have resolved to sully the Bill bars. Good name and reputation to accomplish to go. First Democrats are angry the special counsel report and did not produce the material or collusion's. They expected to pave their path teaching the president feel compelled remind everyone the report found offers to do so no one from the Trump campaign knowingly conspired with the Russian government, and you can't help. But notice the phrase Russian collusion has vanished from the democratic talking points and left a void in the narrative. The special counsel did not make a prosecutor determination structure in which was his job attorney general and a deputy attorney general did so according to their mandates law enforcement officials while giving no credence to the office of legal counsel. Opinion regarding that a sitting president as a result, they're angry their anger nations chief law enforcement officer and his dad had yelled acidy decide the didn't support charges for obstruction investigation into something. The president. Second Democrats are afraid of what your general will fund when he completes his own going review of abuses, the Justice, including how the Russian investigation began. Multiple news reports have suggested those conclusions could be explosive good in careers and could even lead to criminal prosecution rather than face that the Democrats resolve to neutralize Bill bar by attacking him in the office in his in his career. This is the first what a cynical mean-spirited counterproductive irresponsible staff. It is. Meanwhile, our economy urging unemployment amongst already groups historic low a recent Washington Post poll shows cratering support for impeachment, but Democrats have no plans, no purpose, and no viable legislative agenda beyond attacking visit ministration the house is more than four months into a democratic majority. How many bills passed by this committee have been signed into law chairman poor? You see reason I asked if you recognize the craving and insincere politics. It seemed to be yielding, no. No dividends for the American people. We've talked multiple occasions improved at last week's pharmaceutical market that I stand ready to work with you to promote solutions. I will not though become a bystander as we say, the attorney general, and this committee our democracy deserves better. Those comments from Republican Doug Collins of Georgia, the ranking member on the House Judiciary committee and on Twitter. The president wrote the following, quote, everyone wants to know who needs to be accountable because it took up to two years of our lives talking about the Russia involvement at proved no collusion and people want to trace it back to see how all of this happened treasonous hoax that the president at real Donald Trump. And at the White House press secretary Sarah Sanders was asked about the president's use of executive privilege. Caroline, chairman Naylor says at the White House already waived executive privilege. He said the moment they reveal documents Muller, they waive the privilege that's black letter law. So how is the White House still claiming turning Adler would be a little? A bit more on the law. I'm not actually like understand better than he does. The attorney general is protecting information. Grand jury information confidential information had he cannot release the fact that the chairman knows that and continues to ignore it is absolutely absurd. What's not forget. This is the same guy who was to frayed to ask the attorney general questions himself if he can't do his job, and he can't understand basic rule of law and uphold it then he shouldn't be in
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