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Real headaches or just hiccups on nominee Holder's path to AG?

By Douglas A. Berman

The Boston Globe has this long pieceon coming Senate confirmation issues surrounding President-elect Obama's nominees.  The piece is headlined "Holder's hearing might be rocky: GOP could grill Cabinet nominee," and here is how it starts: With Barack Obama anxious to take office, the public eager for fresh leadership, and the economy demanding urgent attention, the Senate is likely to defer to the president-elect and swiftly approve his Cabinet nominees, congressional aides and political analysts say. But there will be one prominent exception: The confirmation hearing for Eric Holder, Obama's pick for attorney general, promises to be bruising, with Republicans determined to explore Holder's role in controversial pardons under President Clinton, his views on gun rights, and his involvement in the case of Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban boy returned to his homeland by Clinton's Justice Department...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 29, 2008 (boomark / email).