(CBS News) – Attorney General Eric Holder says that he will soon call on Congress to lower the standard of proof in federal civil rights cases,...
JENNIFER KAY, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — George Zimmerman, the former neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot Trayvon Martin in a 2012...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors are changing the way drug defendants are charged and punished, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday, unveiling...
WASHINGTON (Fayetteville Observer) – Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch won two key Republican endorsements Thursday en route to likely confirmation as the first black woman...
ERICA WERNER, Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronting skeptical Republicans, attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch pledged a new start with Congress and...
WASHINGTON (New York Times) — Loretta E. Lynch on Wednesday will cast herself as an apolitical career prosecutor who is a departure from Eric H. Holder Jr. when she faces...
(Politico) – A federal jury’s decision Monday to convict a former CIA officer for leaking top-secret information to a New York Times reporter was a...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder called Thursday for better record-keeping on how often police officers use force and are themselves...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Wednesday announced revised guidelines for obtaining records from the news media during criminal leak investigations,...
(Politico) – President Barack Obama’s pick to be the next attorney general is winning over Republicans. Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration issued guidelines Monday that restrict the ability of federal law enforcement agencies to profile on the...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist “I can’t breathe,” gasped Eric Garner, again and again and again. “I can’t breathe,” he said as several police officers...
(Politico) – I was taken to the woodshed by Loretta Lynch. The occasion was a 2011 panel about criminal justice at a reunion of Harvard...
JONATHAN LEMIRE, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — He is a white man with a black son, a mayor elected on a campaign centered on mending...
MARK GILLISPIE, Associated Press CLEVELAND (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department and Cleveland reached an agreement Thursday to overhaul the city’s police department after federal investigators...
ALAN FRAM, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans are showing divisions over President Barack Obama’s pick for attorney general, with some citing the president’s executive...
(The Washington Post) – Of all the tragic elements in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, perhaps the most notable is how little it offers that...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The cellphone video of the last moments of Eric Garner’s life showed a white...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a...
KATE BRUMBACK, Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Speaking at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta — the church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. preached —...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Majority Leader Harry Reid says Senate action on President Barack Obama’s nominee for attorney general will occur next year when Republicans are...
(Bloomberg) – Senate Democratic leaders are showing little appetite for pushing through confirmation of Loretta Lynch as U.S. attorney general before they surrender control to Republicans in January....
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Matt Apuzzo, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times)—President Obama will nominate Loretta E. Lynch, the top federal prosecutor in Brooklyn,...
NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. attorney Loretta Lynch has emerged as the leading choice to be the next attorney general, people with knowledge...
TOM HAYS, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — She’s an under-the-radar contender to become the first black woman to head the Justice Department. Loretta Lynch rarely...
