The Chairman-Designate of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Mary Schapiro on Thursday expressed her commitment to reinvigorate enforcement at the SEC during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing,...
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Holder condemns waterboarding as torture in AG confirmation hearings
US Attorney General nominee Eric Holder told the Senate Judiciary Committee in confirmation hearings Thursday that he believes waterboarding constitutes torture and that it could take a long time to close the...
US President-elect Barack Obama on Friday announced his nominations for the top posts in the US intelligence community, designating Admiral Dennis Blair to be Director of National Intelligence and Leon Panetta to be director...
Obama to appoint Harvard law professor to oversee government regulations
US President-elect Barack Obama will appoint Harvard Law School professor Cass Sunstein as administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs , according to reports Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal and Washington...
US President-elect Barack Obama on Monday nominated four former Clinton-era attorneys to high-level posts within the US Department of Justice (DOJ) . Obama has designated Elena Kagan as his pick for Solicitor General, David...
US Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) announced Monday that confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Eric Holder will be delayed one week, after Republicans objected that...
Holder AG confirmation hearings to begin early January: Leahy
US Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on Monday told reporters that confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee Eric Holder would begin in January, as soon as the Senate reconvenes. Leahy, who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee...
US President-elect Barack Obama officially announced on Monday that he is nominating former Department of Justice (DOJ) official Eric Holder as the next US attorney general. If confirmed by...
Republicans target reported Obama AG nominee for 2001 Rich pardon
Media reports that Clinton-era Deputy US Attorney General Eric Holder has been selected for nomination to the position of US Attorney General by President-elect Barack Obama prompted the the Republican National Committee (RNC) ...
Obama to nominate ex-deputy AG Holder as next attorney general: reports
Eric Holder , Deputy US Attorney General during the Clinton administration, has been asked and has agreed to serve as US Attorney General for the incoming administration of now President-elect Barack Obama, according to media reports...