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AG Eric Holder Speaks at Vera Institute

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The Department of Justice has released the Attorney General's prepared comments.  LINK  Here's an excerpt from this must-read: The Vera Institute of Justice has been an extraordinary partner to government in the administration of justice. I thank you in particular for your work with the federal government across a range of issues ? from your contributions to the national commission to eliminate prison rape to the administration of Legal Orientation Programs for non-citizens in immigration proceedings. Your practical, rational, data-driven, results-oriented approach can best be described as post-partisan. In the five months that I have served as Attorney General, I have tried to take that same approach, and that is what I would like to talk about this evening: how we can move past politics and ideology in order to get smart on crime...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).