WASHINGTON (AP) -- Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general and an unflinching champion of civil rights in enforcing the nation's laws, is...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is accepting the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder and praising him for his deep commitment to ensuring...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Broadening its push to improve police relations with minorities, the Justice Department has enlisted a team of criminal justice researchers to...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was hospitalized Thursday after experiencing faintness and shortness of breath.
Holder is in "good condition" and is "alert" and talking...
U.S. treasury and law enforcement agencies will soon issue regulations opening banking services to state-sanctioned marijuana businesses even though cannabis remains classified an illegal...
The ballooning cost of the overcrowded federal prison system is an "increasingly critical threat" to the Justice Department’s ability to fulfill its mission, the...
PoliticsNation host and National Action Network founder, Rev. Al Sharpton, released the following statement after meeting with President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the recent dismantling of the historic — and still necessary — Voting Rights Act of 1965: Today the United States President and Attorney General met with a broad coalition of civil rights and voting rights leaders to assure us that they will continue to work with us to protect every American’s right to vote. We had great alarm when the Supreme Court ruled against Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act but after meeting with the President and the Attorney General we were assured that the Voting Rights Act may be wounded but it is not dead. It is not even critically wounded; it can and will be revived. The President said his Administration will do whatever is necessary to protect the rights of the American people to vote. I made it clear that one of the things that National Action Network and our pa ...
