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Pro-Abortion Attorney General Eric Holder May Leave Obama Admin

Attorney General Eric Holder, who has upset pro-life advocates with his repeated efforts to prosecute lawful pro-life protestors, his failure to prosecute abortion industry abuses and his wife's co-ownership of an abortion clinic, may be leaving the Obama administration.

News reports today indicate Holder might not be sticking around for a second term. CBS News indicates Holder told law school students at the University of Baltimore School of Law he doesn't know for sure if he will be a part of the second Obama administration, saying he wants to weigh his options with his family. Ref. Source 5

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President Obama says he has "Complete confidence in Eric Holder" And that "he is an outstanding Attorney General."

Holder has been under fire because the Justice Department obtained phone records of The Associated Press from 2012 as part of an investigation of classified leaks.

The president also said today he isn't apologizing for cracking down on leaks of classified information that can jeopardize U.S. Troops and intelligence officers.

Obama called for consideration of a new "Shield law" For the press. He added that he was unable to comment specifically on the Department of Justice's secret subpoena of phone records of The Associated Press because of an ongoing investigation. Ref. CNN

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Eric Holder Under Investigation By House Judiciary Committee For Lying Under Oath:

Will he too receive an extended absence of leave (with pay) after pleading the fifth, or will the circle of lies slowly but surely start to unwind? Ref. Source 6

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Attorney General Eric Holder called for doing away with "Stand your ground" Self-defense laws, telling the NAACP the statutes "Sow dangerous conflict in our neighborhoods" And allow "Violent situations to escalate in public." Ref. CNN

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Eric Holder on Prisons

Saying the U.S. Prison population is "Outsized and unnecessarily large," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder today said he has ordered changes in Justice Department polices so that some low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or drug cartels won't be charged with crimes that impose "Draconian mandatory minimum sentences."

In a speech at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates in San Francisco, Holder said the United States can't prosecute or incarcerate its way to becoming a safer nation. He urged that incarceration be used to "Punish, deter, and rehabilitate -- not merely to warehouse and forget." Ref. CNN

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Justice Department spokesman says Holder taken to MedStar Washington Hospital Center as a precaution "To undergo further evaluation." Ref. USAToday

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Holder Presses Delay On Fast And Furious Documents
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Attorney General Eric Holder is again asking a federal court to delay the transfer of disputed documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious to a House committee. In a new court filing Monday night, Justice Department lawyers asked U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson not to require Holder to turn over any of the roughly 64,000 pages of documents to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee until after her rulings can be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. "The Department respectfully submits that it would be preferable for the parties, this Court, and...
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Attorney General Eric Holder will announce today that he will resign after six years at the Justice Department helm. He will stay in the position until his successor is confirmed, he said in a statement.

Holder was sworn in as the 82nd attorney general in February 2009 after serving as President Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general.

Previously, the Columbia Law School graduate was U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia and served during President Ronald Reagan's administration as an associate judge at the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Ref. CNN