Eric Holder

surveillance has continued during the Obama presidency. In 2011, Congress again renewed the Patriot Act, reinvigorating the debate over domestic surveillance. In March 2012, Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall wrote an open letter to Attorney General Eric Holder expressing their concern over ongoing surveillance programs. There is now a significant gap between what most Americans think the law allows and what the government secretly claims the law allows. In December 2012, Congress extended the…

May, Nicole Unit 2 Lesson 9 Writing your Informative Article We, the people, have the right to seek, to receive and impart information or ideas from any media. Without freedom of the press, we would not have access to important information that we have the right to know. This right was established in the Bill of Rights during the year 1789. The Bill of Rights was created to further protect the rights of the Constitution. However, over the years the government has been attempting to place…

Change comes from Hope: Racial Profiling in Loury’s “Obama, Gates and the American Black Man” Racism in the form of racial profiling is still evident today. Racial Profiling is judging individuals based on their ethnic group. The renowned author Glenn C. Loury, writes in his work “Obama, Gates and the American Black Man,” about how Black American men are treated in society and how elite members in the United States react and attempt to mend the problem of racial profiling. The overall argument…

When the War on Drugs was introduced in the 1970s, its purpose was to prohibit drugs flowing into the United States, and to reduce the drug trade. In an effort to prevent future drug related crimes, the US Criminal Justice system had decided that people who are charged with drugs should be jailed for lengthy periods. Increasing arrest rates that led to increased incarceration rates, which leading to overcrowding of prisons. In an effort to find a solution, private prisons were created. A…

United States today. There have been a number of issues regarding police using excessive force that have captured the media’s attention. For example, two years ago, a suspect, who police claim was resisting arrest, was beaten by six NYPD officers. Eric Garner was even placed in a chokehold, leading to his death. Police use force to subdue suspects everyday, yet there are moments where the police excessively use unnecessary force. Most law enforcement officials should be retrained in the usage of…

Everything up to a point is okay on how the United States has fought the war on terror. If the focus was on how to stop terrorism from getting over to the United States or where this all started from, the success would be great. Instead, America is only protecting the U.S. and only being concerned about individual safety. Security after 9/11 is not as punctual as it was before 9/11. America is in more danger than before 9/11 because tightening the rules, restrictions and people on the no fly…

Throughout America, 2.2 million black citizens – or nearly one in 13 African-American adults – are banned from voting because of these laws. In three states – Florida, Kentucky, and Virginia – that ratio climbs to one in five,” as Attorney General Eric Holder Delivers Remarks on Criminal Justice Reform at Georgetown University Law…

The process for mortgages is sufficiently transparent, allowing lenders to assess the risk quickly and make a decision. Assessing risk becomes more complicated for the holder of the loan with the beginning of securitization. The Law Dictionary defines securitization as a firm 's development of a package of investment opportunities and offering different scenarios of the package to fit a client’s needs ensuring market liquidity…

invalid and stated that the use of the team name "Redskins" constituted an ethnic slur. A month before the ruling, Senator Harry Reid and 49 other Democratic senators asked Goodell to push the Redskins owners to change the name. Attorney General Eric Holder and former Secretary…

protests spread across the country and lasted for several weeks. The phrase “Black lives matter” resulted from these teen shootings and created even more tension between different colored communities and law enforcement. In 2014, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that in addition to race and ethnicity, federal officers can no longer profile individuals based on gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation and gender identity (ProQuest, “At Issue: Racial Profiling”). The updated…