Eric Holder: February 2012

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Eric Holder: February 2012

Texas Rep. Gets Defense Of His State's Voter ID Law Wrong

Ryan J. Reilly | February 28, 2012, 1:00PM

Rep. John Culberson (R-TX) offered an impassioned defense of his state's voter photo ID law during an appropriations hearing featuring Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday. But he didn't get the details quite right.

In the middle of Culberson's questioning of Holder during an Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the Justice Department's budget request, Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) asked Culberson whether photo IDs issued by state universities could be used at the polls under the Texas law.

"I.... I don't know why it wouldn't, I don't see any prohibition against it, I read it, I don't see it," Culberson said. "I've read it and I don't see any prohibition against a photo ID issued by a state university in Texas."

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Topics: Eric Holder, John Culberson, Texas, Voter Identification, voter fraud

Ted Stevens

Judge Demands Report On Prosecutorial Misconduct In Ted Stevens Case Be Made Public

Ryan J. Reilly | February 8, 2012, 10:20AM

Former Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK)

A federal judge in D.C. ruled Wednesday that an unredacted copy of an independent report on prosecutorial misconduct during the federal investigation of the late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R) has to be made public by March 15.

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the report written by Henry F. Schuelke "chronicles significant prosecutorial misconduct in a highly publicized investigation and prosecution brought by the Public Integrity Section against an incumbent United States Senator."

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Topics: DOJ, DOJ Public Integrity, Eric Holder, Justice Department, Ted Stevens

Mike Vanderboegh

GOP 'Sons-A-Bitches' Going Soft On Gunwalking, Says Blogger Who Broke 'Fast And Furious'

Ryan J. Reilly | February 3, 2012, 6:27AM

Mike Vanderboegh is drinking Diet Mountain Dew in the cafeteria of the Rayburn building on Capitol Hill, and he is pissed.

Not because his flight from Alabama was almost "as bumpy as [his] first marriage," nor because he almost got into a physical altercation with an "idiot street urban adventurer" outside the National Archives who said Vanderboegh looked like Newt Gingrich.

The former militia man turned gun rights blogger is angry because he thinks the Republican "sons-a-bitches" on the House Oversight Committee put on the "ultimate display of public limp dickery" during a Thursday hearing in which Attorney General Eric Holder testified about ATF's botched Operation Fast and Furious.