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Attorney General Eric Holder addresses the media while announcing new criminal charges and settlement in the case against the BP oil company on November 15, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)

Eric Holder: We need national standards for voting

Morgan Whitaker, Politics Nation
POLITICS NATION - Attorney General Eric Holder said America’s election system needs to be made 'stronger and more accessible,' and defended the Justice Department’s challenges to restrictive voting laws...
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Ex-Ala. Attorney General's 'kiss my a**' letter to the KKK goes viral

Marquise Francis
theGRIO REPORT - Former Attorney General of Alabama Bill Baxley wrote a short and direct letter to the Ku Klux Klan back in 1970 after receiving a threatening letter of protest...
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Attorney General Eric Holder is welcomed at the NAACP annual convention Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Houston.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Eric Holder to stay on as Attorney General

Abdul Sada
theGRIO REPORT - Eric Holder appears to have some gas left in the tank after announcing his plans to continue as the Attorney General under the Obama administration...
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Eric Holder unsure about 2nd term

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theGRIO REPORT - Eric Holder's tenure has been marked by fierce battles with Congressional Republicans (over his handling of the 'Fast and Furious' program) as well as historic successes fighting for civil rights and against domestic terrorism...
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Eric Holder cleared of any 'Fast and Furious' wrongdoing

Pete Williams, NBC News
NBC NEWS - A long-awaited report on the U.S. government’s controversial gun-trafficking operation known as 'Fast and Furious' released Wednesday found no evidence that Attorney General Eric Holder knew of the botched effort to trace the flow of guns to Mexico’s drug cartels prior to its public unraveling in January 2011...
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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the NAACP annual convention Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Houston.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Eric Holder meets Tucson shooting survivors

Pete Yost, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - More than a dozen survivors and family members from the 2011 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that wounded former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords have outlined for Attorney General Eric Holder their campaign to stem gun violence...
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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the NAACP annual convention Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Houston.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Holder to announce New Orleans police reforms

Kevin McGill and Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a series of court-supervised reforms of the New Orleans Police Department on Tuesday...
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NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - JANUARY 19:  Texas Governor Rick Perry announces he is dropping his run for the Republican U.S. presidential nomination during a news conference in Charleston, South Carolina January 19, 2012.  (Photo by Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Rick Perry: Eric Holder trying to 'incite racial tension'

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Eric Holder's remarks last week that voter ID laws are a modern-day version of a poll tax are receiving criticism from Texas governor Rick Perry...
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Attorney General Eric Holder is welcomed at the NAACP annual convention Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Houston.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Is Eric Holder Obama's 'secret weapon'?

James Braxton Peterson
OPINION - This nation’s first African-American Attorney General exists in the historical shadow of this nation’s first black president, but Eric Holder has established himself as one of the most racially progressive AG’s ever to hold the office...
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Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the NAACP annual convention Tuesday, July 10, 2012, in Houston.  (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Eric Holder on voter ID: 'We call those poll taxes'

Pete Yost and Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) - Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he opposes a new photo ID requirement in Texas elections because it would be harmful to minority voters...
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