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Here Are the Best Famous People From Your Yearbooks
Leah Finnegan · 12/31/14 12:30PMWow! It is amazing how many Gawker readers went to middle and high school and have the yearbook photos to prove it. Thank you for sharing your celebrity yearbook photos with us, except for those of you who just posted the Wikipedia lists of famous people who went to your high school. That was really lame.
Eric Holder: "We, as a Nation, Have Failed"
Jason Parham · 12/17/14 02:00PMEric Holder Will Resign as Attorney General
Taylor Berman · 09/25/14 09:51AMJustice Department to Launch Civil Rights Investigation of Ferguson PD
Aleksander Chan · 09/04/14 07:13AMAttorney General Eric Holder is expected to launch a broad civil rights investigation into the Ferguson, Mo. police department this week, the Washington Post reports. The probe is expected to determine "whether the department employed policies and practices that resulted in a pattern of civil rights violations," and stems from the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by white Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson.
Department of Justice Orders Second Autopsy for Michael Brown
Megan Reynolds · 08/17/14 11:13AMTaylor Berman · 02/27/14 11:48AM
Adam Weinstein · 02/10/14 03:09PM
Eric Holder "told me that he will leave office sometime this year," Jeffrey Toobin writes in the latest issue of The New Yorker. Holder, the first African-American attorney general in U.S. history and a favorite punching-bag of conservatives, has long been rumored to be on his way out at the Justice Department.
Same-Sex Couples Are People, Justice Department Announces
Luke O'Neil · 02/08/14 04:10PMAttorney General Eric Holder is expected to announce on Monday that he will instruct the Justice Department to extend full and equal protection to same-sex marriages in all of the programs it oversees. Among the considerations granted in the policy memo are that same-sex couples cannot be compelled to testify against one another in court, that they can apply jointly for federal bankruptcy, and that federal inmates can avail themselves of the same allowances as other married couples such as in visitation rights. Also it's mandatory that people stop bitching about Looking now.
Holder Wants Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect
Adam Weinstein · 01/30/14 02:25PMD.O.J. Would “Engage in Conversations” With Snowden If He Admits Guilt
Taylor Berman · 01/24/14 08:16AMThe DOJ Says It's Cool to Start Depositing Legal Drug Money
Gabrielle Bluestone · 01/23/14 11:40PMJust a few days after Barack Obama told the New Yorker that he doesn't think weed "is more dangerous than alcohol," Attorney General Eric Holder is finally clarifying that federally insured banks can accept cash from legal marijuana purveyors without having to worry about potential drug racketeering charges.
U.S. to Ban Profiling Based on Religion, Gender, Sexual Orientation
Taylor Berman · 01/16/14 07:42AMExpanding a limited 2003 ban, the Justice Department will soon prohibit federal agents from profiling suspects based on national origin, religion, gender, and sexual orientation. The Bush administration's ban applied only to race, allowing federal agents to specifically target Muslims in terrorism cases and Latinos for immigration investigations.
Eric Holder Calls Drug-War Sentencing "Ineffective and Unsustainable"
Cord Jefferson · 08/12/13 04:36PMIn a speech before the American Bar Association in San Francisco today, Attorney General Eric Holder advocated for sweeping changes in both how nonviolent drug offenders are sentenced in the United States and how we use our prisons. It only took decades and countless taxpayer dollars, but someone with some power is finally admitting that maybe we're going about the drug war all wrong.
Hamilton Nolan · 07/26/13 09:59AM
U.S. Government Formally Admits to Killing Four Americans with Drones
Cord Jefferson · 05/22/13 04:54PMWhite-Haired Obama Has "Complete Confidence" In Eric Holder
Ken Layne · 05/16/13 12:31PMBarack Obama and a visiting foreigner just had a press conference, but nobody cares about the other country (Turkey?) because there are scandals afoot in Washington, so everything's about Eric Holder always doing terrible things. Eric Holder is Obama's friend. So he won't be fired unless all of this doesn't go away in the next couple of news cycles.