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Holder on race: America is ‘a nation of cowards’

By Chris Steller | 02.18.09 | 2:03 pm

erichholder“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards,” said Attorney General Eric Holder today in…

Feds lose war on porn in Supreme Court

By Andy Birkey | 01.27.09 | 3:45 pm

Since 1998, the Justice Department has been pushing an anti-pornography law that is so vague and technologically illiterate that support for it finally crumbled last week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the department’s appeal. The law, the Child…

Red Lake has a knack for mattering in recount-tight races

By Chris Steller | 11.17.08 | 1:34 pm

Braublog notes that the purgers at President Bush’s U.S. Department of Justice may have been onto something when they targeted former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger for working to advance voting rights for Native Americans; turnout continues to