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Eric Holder: Sandy Hook was ‘the worst day’

Justice

“To see the bodies of these little angels.” The former attorney general speaks of gun control to the financial crisis.

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What Ferguson has shown us about race relations in America

Justice
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, on December 22, 2014.

Russia’s ‘incompetent’ spies get nabbed in New York, but here’s why it doesn’t matter

Conflict
US Border Patrol agent Art Del Cueto points to the Mexican border just a few feet away.

Is ISIS a threat on the US border? Some border patrol agents believe it is — but others say not so fast

Conflict
In Novemeber of 2009, Eric Holder announced that the accused mastermind of the September 11th attacks, and four other top terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, would be prosecuted in criminal courts.

Eric Holder will resign, leaving a mixed legacy on national security issues

Justice
One topic of discussion between Presidents Barack Obama and Xi Jinping when they met in California last summer was cyber espionage.

The Obama administration has put China on notice — with indictments for cyber espionage

Business, Economics and Jobs

In an unprecedented move, the US Justice Department is charging five Chinese military officers with cyber espionage. And the charges are not being well-received in China.In an unprecedented move, the US Justice Department is charging five Chinese military officers with cyber espionage. And the charges are not being well-received in China.

Eric Holder’s legacy still up for debate

Global Politics

As the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, will Eric Holder be remembered best as the man who eased up on drug sentencing, the man who refused to prosecute financial institutions, or will his legacy be marked by other accomplishments or failures?

Holder, citing prison overcrowding, overrides some mandatory minimum sentences

Global Politics

Faced with overcrowded prisons, Attorney General Eric Holder announced a series of reforms to the way certain drug offenders are handled by the U.S. federal legal system. Of the 2.3 million Americans incarcerated, half are charged with drug-related crimes.

Drug Crimes and Mandatory Minimums: A Federal Judge’s Take

For decades, U.S. law forced federal judges to impose severe prison sentences on nonviolent drug offenders. Under the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, Congress mandated a minimum sentence of five years without parole for possession of five grams of crack cocaine, for example, and federal judges could not consider mitigating circumstances in sentencing.  But this […]

Attorney General Eric Holder: Change Could Be Coming to U.S. Drug Laws

Today Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce some substantial changes in how low-level drug offenders are prosecuted, overriding pre-existing federal laws that impose mandatory minimum sentences for drug-related offenses. The Justice Department will offer drug treatment programs for low-level offenders instead of jail time and early release for some current elderly inmates who […]