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Washington attorney Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's top choice to be the next attorney general and aides have gone so far as to ask senators whether he would be confirmed, an Mr. Obama official and people close to the matter said.
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President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first African American to serve as the nation's chief lawyer.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for attorney general is Eric Holder, a former No. 2 Justice Department official in the Clinton administration and Obama campaign aide who would become the first African American to serve as the nation's chief lawyer....
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Eric H. Holder Jr., a former Justice Department official who was President-elect Barack Obama's campaign co-chairman, is the leading candidate to serve as the next U.S. attorney general, according to Democratic sources familiar with the choice.
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Newsweek: President-elect Obama has decided to tap Eric Holder as his attorney general, putting the veteran Washington lawyer in place to become the first African-American to head the Justice Department, according to two legal sources close to the presidential transition.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has conditionally offered Eric Holder the job as attorney general, and the former top Clinton administration official has accepted, a senior Democrat said on Tuesday.
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CBS News has learned that long-time Washington insider Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's choice to be attorney general. After some initial hesitation, Holder has now told the Obama team he wants the job.
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Aides weigh support in the Senate for the former Clinton administration official, who would be the first black leader of the Justice Department. The Marc Rich pardon could emerge as an issue. Former Justice Department official Eric H. Holder Jr. emerged Tuesday as Barack Obama's leading candidate for attorney general, and the president-elect's transition team was trying to gauge whether there was sufficient bipartisan support for him in the Senate, sources close to the transition confirmed.
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President-elect Barack Obama plans on Monday to announce six experienced hands to fill top administration posts.
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AIG's new $150 million bailout, attorney general speculation, and the GOP's restructuring.
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Eric Holder, the man charged with vetting Barack Obama's vice presidential picks, is almost certain to be the attorney general in the Obama Administration, according to knowledgeable Democratic sources. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff first reported the news of Holder's likely selection....
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President-elect Barack Obama's aides have been privately talking to senators about whether Washington attorney Eric Holder would be confirmed as the next attorney general.
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According to Newsweek magazine, US President-elect Barack Obama has decided to appoint Eric Holder as attorney general. Democrat sources said Holder has accepted the job, but he has yet to be formally approved.
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Nov 18 - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen the first member of his Cabinet-- tapping Eric Holder to be U.S. Attorney General, according to a senior Democrat
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Obama tipped to appoint first black Attorney-General
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Former Clinton Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder is President-elect Barack Obama's choice for the position of attorney general, according to two prominent Democrats involved in transition matters.
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Nov. 19: President-elect Barack Obama reportedly has chosen veteran Washington lawyer Eric Holder as his attorney general. If confirmed, Holder would be the first African-American to head the Justice Department. NBC’s Pete Williams reports. (Today Show)
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According to Newsweek magazine, US President-elect Barack Obama has decided to appoint Eric Holder as attorney general. Democrat sources said Holder has accepted the job, but he has yet to be formally approved.
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Republicans say they're surprised that Barack Obama's transition team didn't gauge their feelings about the likely nominee. Seven years ago, after his name was dragged very publicly through the mud in a Clinton administration pardon scandal, President-elect Barack Obama's top pick for attorney general was certain that his long and successful career in public service was at an end.
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The Republican National Committee yesterday highlighted the role of attorney general candidate Eric H. Holder Jr. in controversial 2001 pardons, but GOP senators avoided direct attacks on Barack Obama's leading choice to lead the Justice Department.
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At least one key member of Barack Obama’s Cabinet could be ready to be sworn into office just hours after Obama takes the oath as president on Jan. 20. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy says he’ll hold confirmation hearings early next month on Obama’s choice of Eric Holder to be the nation’s top law enforcement [...]
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Obama's Justice Department nominee was initially met with bipartisan praise. Now the GOP is raising concerns about pardons and more. President-elect Barack Obama's nominee for attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., is now coming under fire from Senate Republicans, who have asked to delay what was expected to be a swift and easy confirmation over concerns about his role in some controversial Clinton-era pardons and other matters.
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New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has turned his attention toward American International Group Inc. (AIG), following allegedly "unwarranted and outrageous expenditures" at the embattled insurer. Cuomo authored an angry letter to the agency, citing a "golden parachute" for former Chief Executive Officer Martin Sullivan as well as unreasonable perks for executives, including spa treatments and massages.
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Hundreds of angry residents of East St. Paul, Man., met with Manitoba's attorney general Thursday night to demand answers about his decision to disband their police force.
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Yes, the guy's got some first-rate writers working up this material, but he knows how to deliver: "Many of you know I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'that one.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn’t think I’d ever run for President." But his best line is more subtle, working both as a send-up of Fox News' fear-mongering about Obama and of the dirty tricks used against John McCain during the 2000 primaries: "Fox...
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Charles Fried, the Solicitor General for President Ronald Reagan, announced today that he has already voted for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. Chief among his reasons: "the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis." In addition to...
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A ruling by Virginia's attorney general today paved the way for dozens of potentially invalid absentee ballots mailed from overseas to be counted in the Nov. 4 election, ending a controversy that some feared would disenfranchise members of the military.
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Andrew Cuomo expanded his investigation of bonuses to Wall Street executives whose banking companies are receiving cash injections from the U.S. government.
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Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department have referred the disclosure to the media of the immigration status of Sen. Barack Obama's Aunt Zeituni Onyango to the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General and the office of professional responsibility....
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SEATTLE (AP) -- It's four more years for Republican state Attorney General Rob McKenna....
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The 39-count complaint includes felony charges of grand theft, money laundering and conspiracy. After falling behind on their house payments, Eleuteria and Arthur Washington of Redlands responded to a flier they got in the mail promising to help them renegotiate their mortgage.
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GM's CEO says the car manufacturing giant is in such a desperate financial situation it will need a bail-out before US president-elect Barack Obama takes office on January 20.
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The Air Force general who runs the Pentagon's missile defense projects said Wednesday that American interests would be "severely hurt" if President-elect Obama decided to halt plans to install missile interceptors in Eastern Europe.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite objections by Russia, the outgoing head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency urged President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to stick to the Bush administration's plans to place missile defenses in Eastern Europe.
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The general who runs the Pentagon's missile defense projects said that American interests would be "severely hurt" if President-elect Obama decided to halt current plans. Meanwhile, Russia rejected a second U.S. proposal on the defense system.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force general who runs the Pentagon's missile defense projects said that American interests would be "severely hurt" if President-elect Obama decided to halt plans developed by the Bush administration to install missile interceptors in Eastern Europe....
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