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May 16, 2024 · The DOJ has repeatedly concluded officials acting under the president’s claim of executive privilege are protected from prosecution for contempt of Congress, including when Congress held...
May 6, 2024 · That was when the GOP-controlled House voted to make then-Attorney General Eric Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over documents related to the gun-running operation known as Operation Fast and Furious.
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May 18, 2024 · His actions led Congress, for the first time, to hold an attorney general in contempt. Holder also refused to defend in court the Defense of Marriage Act, a federal law defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
May 6, 2024 · That was when the GOP-controlled House voted to make then-Attorney General Eric Holder the first sitting Cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over...
May 7, 2024 · In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt for refusing to turn over documents related to the Operation Fast and Furious, where law enforcement failed to intervene as...
May 16, 2024 · But the Justice Department has declined to pursue charges against two previous attorneys general the House held in contempt: Republican Bill Barr in 2019 and Democrat Eric Holder in 2012. It's ...
May 16, 2024 · In 2012, then-attorney general Eric Holder requested that President Barack Obama invoke executive privilege and refuse Congress’s requests to give them some records about “Fast and Furious ...
