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J. Edgar Hoover Delivered Order to Ignore Democrat After His Critical Comments

allan11 years ago01 mins

Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com J. Edgar Hoover wasn’t known for messing around. When U.S. Rep. Jack Brooks criticized the FBI director during a background interview for a potential judicial nominee in 1958, Hoover laid down the law – his version of it. “He is to be ignored,” Hoover wrote of the Texas Democrat in a June…

Column: Atty. Gen. Holder Urges Senate to Step it Up on Judicial Vacancies

allan15 years ago15 years ago02 mins

By Eric Holder Jr. U.S. Attorney General For the Washington Post WASHINGTON — More than a year ago, President Obama nominated Jane Stranch, a respected Nashville labor lawyer, to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. That vacancy had been declared a “judicial emergency” because the Sixth Circuit does not…