Finance minister Sammy Wilson has criticised the Attorney General John Larkin over his decision to take contempt of court proceedings against the former Secretary of State Peter Hain.

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Bahrain’s attorney general denies rumours that Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, who is on hunger strike in prison, is dead, saying he is in “good health”.

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IF VIRGINIA Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R) needs examples of official waste and abuse as he runs for governor, he could cite the harassment that he conducted against climate scientist Michael E. Mann, a costly episode of government overreach that is finally over. Read full article > >

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The U.S. government has the right to order the killing of American citizens overseas if they are senior al-Qaeda leaders who pose an imminent terrorist threat and cannot reasonably be captured, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Monday. Read full article > >

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New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman abruptly called off a news conference at which he could have provided a crucial endorsement of a proposed settlement with some of the nation’s biggest banks over shoddy foreclosure practices. Read full article > >

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The state attorney general asserted that fraudulent use of the tracking system allowed Bank of America, Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase to avoid the need for recording mortgage transfers.

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On the eve of U.S. Attorney Eric H. Holder Jr.’s appearance before Congress, a senior Justice Department official said the department cannot meet the deadline Republican lawmakers have set to turn over more documents on the Fast and Furious gun operation or be held in contempt of Congress .. Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole said that the February 9 deadline to submit all documents on the botched gun operation set this week by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, was “impossible to meet.” “We will continue in good faith to produce materials, but it simply will not be possible to finish the collection, processing and review of materials by the date sought in your most recent letter,” Cole wrote in a five-page letter to Issa on Wednesday. On Tuesday, Issa threatened to hold Holder in contempt if the Justice Department does not turn over the documents, which the committee subpoenaed in October. Holder is scheduled to testify before Issa’s committee Thursday morning. According to partial testimony released by the Justice Department late Wednesday, Holder is expected to say that the “gunwalking” tactic used in Fast and Furious is “wholly unacceptable,” was used in a “misguided effort” and will not be employed in the future. Holder is likely to be grilled extensively about the Phoenix operation , in which federal agents targeting a Mexican drug cartel allowed more than 2,000 guns to flow illegally onto U.S. streets and into Mexico between 2009 and January 2011. Read full article > >

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The 2012 BET Honors: Bigger, better and, for the first time, graced by a visit from the first lady. But still fairly freewheelin’. Now in its fifth year, the network’s platinum evening, which celebrates African American achievement across a spectrum of disciplines, turned up the star wattage. The two-hour ceremony, which was taped Saturday evening at the Warner Theatre (to be broadcast Feb. 13), honored singers Mariah Carey and Stevie Wonder, filmmaker Spike Lee, poet Maya Angelou, the Tuskegee Airmen and Olympic track coach Beverly Kearney. The presenters included marquee-friendly names such as Aretha Franklin, Common, Queen Latifah and Willow Smith as well as some political types, including Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., senior adviser to the president Valerie Jarrett and former secretary of state Colin L. Powell. Read full article > >

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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R) announced Sunday that he has reconsidered his decision from Saturday and will not seek to get several GOP presidential candidates added to the state’s primary ballot. Every candidate except Mitt Romney and Ron Paul failed to meet the stringent requirements to get on the ballot for the state’s March 6 primary, and Cuccinelli said Saturday that he would seek to get them added to the ballot. Read full article > >

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Intensifying heat on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. comes as the Justice Department is stepping into some of the most politically divisive issues of the day.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Attorney General Eric Holder vowed Tuesday to fully enforce civil rights protections in next year’s elections amid a flurry of activity by states to redraw political boundaries and impose requirements that could reduce voting by minorities who enthusiastically supported Barack Obama in the 2008 election. Read full article > >

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The Supreme Court Friday night blocked a redistricting plan for Texas drawn by a panel of federal judges, putting the justices in the middle of a partisan battle over how the state’s electoral maps should change to recognize the state’s burgeoning minority population. Texas had objected to the judicially drawn maps, which analysts said would increase chances for Democrats and minorities, and favored maps drawn by the Republican-dominated legislature. Attorney General Greg Abbott (R) requested the Supreme Court’s intervention; the justices will hear arguments Jan. 9. Read full article > >

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President Obama lashed out at Congress on Thursday for blocking his nomination to head a consumer financial watchdog agency, saying Americans are frustrated with legislators for holding up critical appointments to win concessions on other matters. Speaking shortly after the Senate rejected his appointment of former Ohio attorney General Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Obama said his Capitol Hill adversaries were not acting “on the level” in their consideration of the public interest. And he complained that Republicans in Congress were systematically delaying his political appointments. Read full article > >

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Alabama’s attorney general is recommending that the Legislature repeal some portions of the state’s tough new immigration law that have been put on hold by federal courts and clarify some others. In a letter to legislative leaders, Attorney General Luther Strange recommended repealing a section that makes it a crime for an illegal immigrant to fail to carry registration documents. He also suggested repealing the requirement that public schools collect information on the immigration status of students. He said both sections have been put on hold temporarily by federal courts. Read full article > >

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After what allegedly happened to “Victim 2,” a boy estimated to be 10 years old, in the same room where Penn State football players shower, it’s near impossible to keep reading the grand jury’s report . By “Victim 8,” numbness turns to anger. You want to scream at the traumatized graduate assistant coach in 2002 and janitor in 2000 who saw and didn’t stop it, according to the report released by the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office. You want to grab hold of and shake those who reported the crime only to their superiors, washed their hands of responsibility and then let it go, treating a kid’s life as if it were a football that slipped through their hands. Read full article > >

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