Eric Holder
| Eric Holder | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| 82nd Attorney General of the United States From: February 3, 2009 | |||
| President | Barack Hussein Obama | ||
| Predecessor | Michael Mukasey | ||
| Successor | Incumbent (no successor) | ||
| Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States From: June 13, 1997 – January 20, 2001 | |||
| President | Bill Clinton | ||
| Predecessor | Jamie Gorelick | ||
| Successor | Larry Thompson | ||
| Information | |||
| Party | Democrat | ||
| Spouse(s) | Sharon Malone | ||
| Religion | Episcopalian | ||
Eric Himpton Holder, Jr (January 25, 1951) is the current U.S. Attorney General in the Obama Administration. He formerly was Deputy Attorney General, serving from 1997 to 2001, in the Clinton administration. Before receiving this appointment, he was the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, appointed in 1993 upon his resignation from the DC Superior Court. During the transition to the Bush Administration, he was temporarily Acting Attorney General. He succeeded Michael Mukasey.
As Deputy Attorney General Holder recommended pardoning Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg who were serving life sentences for the murder of two police officers and a Brinks armoured guard in 1981.[1] Puerto Rican FALN terrorists likewise received pardons due to Holders efforts, as well as fugitive tax evader and Clinton donor, Mark Rich.[2][3]
Holder does not believe in the Second Amendment and supported the unconstitutional ban on handguns in Washington D.C.[4] On 2/25/09, Holder told reporters that he wants an "assault weapons ban."[5] Second amendment scholar Stephen Halbrook testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that while Holder was Clinton's deputy attorney general, the Justice Department broke federal law by storing records of firearms purchases.[6]
In February 2009, Holder called America, "A Nation of Cowards."[7]
References
- ↑ Confirming Fears, Editorial, National Review Online, November 19, 2008.
- ↑ http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2004457941_apholderobama.html?syndication=rss
- ↑ http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0102/14/se.04.html
- ↑ http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/holder_obama_guns/2009/01/15/171877.html
- ↑ http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=6960824&page=1
- ↑ http://www.independent.org/newsroom/news_detail.asp?newsID=118
- ↑ Holder: America Is "A Nation of Cowards"
Further reading
- Biography of Eric Holder.Retrieved from obamacrimes.com February 23, 2010.
