Tag Archives: Eric Holder

BREAKING: AG Eric Holder Says Feds Will Recognize Michigan’s Gay Marriages

Just in via White House press release: “I have determined that the same-sex marriages performed last Saturday in Michigan will be recognized by the federal government. These families will be eligible for all relevant federal benefits on the same terms as other same-sex marriages. The Governor of Michigan has made clear that the marriages that took place on Saturday were …

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MICHIGAN: Gov. Rick Snyder Refuses To Recognize Legal Same-Sex Marriages

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder says that while he considers the 300+ same-sex marriages conducted last week to be legal, he won’t allow state agencies to recognize them. Snyder acknowledged same-sex couples “had a legal marriage.” But because of the court’s stay, he added, the gay marriage ban has been restored. The governor’s move closes the door, at least for now, …

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Attorney General Eric Holder Hospitalized

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Pat Robertson: Impeach Eric Holder

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Tony Perkins Has The Eric Holder Sadz

“Holder’s comments are an insult to his office and the office of 50 other men and women who took similar oaths. If the Attorney General can pick and choose which laws to uphold, then can the rest of us pick and choose which laws to follow? Can we pick and choose which taxes we’ll pay? If the Left follows this …

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Eric Holder To State Attorneys General: You Don’t Have To Defend Marriage Bans

US Attorney General Eric Holder spoke today to the National Association of Attorneys General.  Here is an excerpt from his speech as provided by the White House: The essential duty to which all of us – as attorneys general – have been sworn: not just to win cases, but to see that justice is done. This is the cause that …

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AFA: Impeach Eric Holder

“United States Attorney General Eric Holder, this week, has again overstepped the boundaries of the law when he arbitrarily ordered that homosexual couples will now receive government benefits reserved only for natural marriage status. This applies even in states that have laws defining marriage as only between one man and one woman. Taking a nod from the playbook of his …

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Tony Perkins Has The DOJ Sadz

“The DOJ, which may as well be a satellite office of the HRC, has been all too happy to run point for homosexual activists, throwing bouquet after taxpayer-funded bouquet to unions that 33 states don’t recognize. In this latest adventure in lawlessness, Holder shreds marriage laws on everything from bankruptcy policy, alimony, prison visits, access to the September 11th Victims …

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More Federal Rights For Married Gays

Saturday night Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the Human Rights Campaign’s annual gala at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria where he announced that today the Justice Department will issue a memorandum outlining “full federal equality” for married same-sex couples. Same-sex couples will be afforded the right to decline to give testimony in court that might violate marital privilege; will be …

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Brian Brown Has The DOJ Sadz

“It is outrageous that the Justice Department would move so brazenly and publicly to undermine Utah’s standing constitutional provision regulating marriage as the union of one man and one woman. It is the right of states to determine marriage, and the voters and legislature of Utah have done just that. Their right to do so is encoded in the U.S. …

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Eric Holder: The Federal Government Will Recognize Utah’s Same-Sex Marriages

Attorney General Eric Holder essentially just told Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to suck it. The Obama administration on Friday said that it would recognize as lawful the marriages of 1,300 same-sex couples in Utah, even though the state government is refusing to do so. Wading into the fast-moving legal battle over same-sex marriage rights in one of America’s most socially …

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Matt Barber Writes For World Net Daily: Eric Holder Should Arrest JMG For Anti-Christian Comments Left On His Blog

Liberty Counsel spokesdouche Matt Barber has posted a World Net Daily column in which he calls for Eric Holder and the federal government to take legal action against me for anti-Christian comments made by alleged JMG readers on a post I wrote about a recent abortion rights rally in Argentina, in which feminists spat upon and sprayed paint into the …

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Eric Holder Announces: Military To Grant All Benefits To Spouses Of Gay Veterans

Just in via press release from the White House: In the Obama administration’s latest step to ensure equal treatment for same-sex married couples following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Wednesday that President Obama has directed the Executive Branch to take steps allowing for …

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HuffPo: Eric Holder Must Go

Regrettably, I must agree.

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More Trouble For Eric Holder

CNN reports: The U.S. Marshals Service had been “unable to locate” two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program who have been identified as known or suspected terrorists according to the Justice Department’s inspector general. The Marshals Service has concluded that “one individual was and the other individual was believed to be residing outside of the United States,” according …

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Reince Priebus: Holder Must Resign

“Freedom of the press is an essential right in a free society. The First Amendment doesn’t request the federal government to respect it; it demands it. Attorney General Eric Holder, in permitting the Justice Department to issue secret subpoenas to spy on Associated Press reporters, has trampled on the First Amendment and failed in his sworn duty to uphold the …

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AG Eric Holder Recused Himself From DOJ Plan To Investigate Associated Press

CNN reports: Attorney General Eric Holder recused himself from the decision to subpoena the phone records of Associated Press reporters, a source told CNN’s Jessica Yellin on Tuesday. The approval fell to Deputy Attorney General James Cole, the source said. White House spokesman Jay Carney said Tuesday that the White House had no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice …

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Attorney General Eric Holder Speaks To Convention Of LGBT Lawyers

Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder praised the work of LGBT lawyers gathered at the annual Lavender Law Conference and vowed to continue to work with them in the Obama administration’s campaign for full LGBT equality. An excerpt of Holder’s speech via Towleroad: You are – or soon will be – uniquely situated to use the power of the law, as …

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Email Of The Day – Eugene Delgaudio

“Joe, Should a man be allowed to use women’s only restrooms? You and I both know the answer: Of course not! But Obama’s Department of Justice has just ordered a college to allow exactly that. You see, they have decided a sexually disturbed man — who goes by ‘Jennifer’ Braly — has the right to use any women’s restroom on …

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BREAKING: DOJ Won’t Defend Laws That Block Benefits For Gay Military Couples

Talking Points Memo has a major scoop from the DOJ. The Obama Justice Department has concluded that legislation banning same-sex couples from receiving military and veterans benefits violates the equal protection component of the Fifth Amendment and will no longer defend the statute in court, Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a letter to Congressional leaders on Friday. “The legislative …

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