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How much will guns and drugs come up during the Holder hearings?

By Douglas A. Berman

Confirmation hearings for Attorney-General nominee Eric Holder are scheduled to start this Thursday, and there is reason to believe these hearings will be worth watching.  This new Politico piece, headined "GOP setting up roadblocks for Holder," indicates that topics other than the ugly Clinton clemencies will be on the agenda: Senate Republicans have invited the son of man killed in a 1975 Puerto Rican nationalist bombing as well as a former FBI agent who investigated two violent groups supporting Puerto Rican independence to appear at Eric Holder?s confirmation hearings. A third GOP witness is a pro-gun rights attorney from Virginia.... Holder?s commitment -- or lack thereof -- to the rights of gun owners and the Second Amendment has also become a talking point for Republicans opposing his confirmation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 13, 2009 (boomark / email).