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Senator Specter refines the case against AG-nominee Holder

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this New York Times article and this BLT post, Senator Arlen Specter has started to define the terms of the debate for next week's confirmation hearing for Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder.  Here are the basics from The BLT: Sen. Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has begun laying out the questions he plans to ask Eric Holder Jr. next week during Holder?s confirmation hearing to be attorney general. In a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday, Specter (R-Pa.) said he plans to focus his inquiry on three areas: the pardon of fugitive commodities trader Marc Rich; the decision by Holder?s then-boss Attorney General Janet Reno not to appoint a special prosecutor to look into Vice President Al Gore?s 1996 fundraising activities; and the clemency granted to a group of Puerto Rican nationalists...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).