Former U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey will join New York law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, the firm said Tuesday in a statement. Mukasey, a former federal judge in New York, will join the firm as a partner in the litigation ...

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Lawmakers from both parties introduced legislation in the House and Senate on Wednesday aimed at limiting the U.S. Justice Department’s ability to invoke national security to block lawsuits accusing the government of misconduct. The measures would bolster the power of ...

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Eric H. Holder, a career federal prosecutor, judge and Washington lawyer, was sworn in Tuesday as the U.S.’s first black attorney general with a pledge to revitalize the Justice Department. Holder, addressing cheering department employees prior to his swearing-in, said ...

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Barack Obama has promised many times that he will have the most accountable administration in history. But early on, he missed two opportunities to show he means what he says. First, Tim Geithner's nomination to head the Treasury Department should have been withdrawn once his weaknesses were apparent. Second, Obama should have never picked Eric Holder to be attorney general.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee, after a one-week delay, approved Eric Holder’s nomination by President Barack Obama to be U.S. attorney general and set the stage for confirmation by the full Senate. Holder, 58, would be the first black person to ...

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Attorney General-designate Eric Holder called waterboarding a form of illegal torture and promised to restore the credibility of a Justice Department he described as "badly shaken" by "improper political interference." At Senate confirmation hearings, Holder signaled that President-elect Barack Obama will suspend military tribunals used to try suspected war criminals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The tribunals must be "substantially revamped" to provide defendants with more due process and ensure fair treatment for suspects, he said.

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