Contents tagged with Holder
Filed in: Immigration | by Jay Sekulow | 10:52 AM Apr. 23, 2012
Battle Over Protecting Our Borders Reaches Supreme Court
It is a critically important week at the U.S. Supreme Court. In a term that includes several blockbuster cases, the Justices will hear oral arguments on Wednesday on the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration law, S.B. 1070. S.B. 1070 made it a state crime to be in the country illegally and stated that an officer engaged in a lawful stop, detention or arrest must, when practicable, ask about a person's legal status when reasonable suspicion exists that the person is in the U.S. illegally. Continue Reading...
Filed in: US Constitution | by Jay Sekulow | 2:51 PM Mar. 21, 2012
AG Holder Needs a Lesson in the Second Amendment
In 1995, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder - who was serving as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia at the time - attempted to bolster his anti-gun campaign by expressing his desire to launch a public relations campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way." That's right - his words - "brainwash people" to oppose gun ownership. Ridiculous. Let me say from the start, the use of guns to commit violent crimes is simply unacceptable. And no one shoul Continue Reading...
Filed in: War on Terror | by Jay Sekulow | 6:11 PM Mar. 19, 2012
Message to Holder: NYPD Surveillance is Legitimate Response to Terrorism
We have prepared a 12-page legal analysis showing very clearly that the surveillance methods used by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) are not only effective, but constitutional as well. As we told you over the past couple of weeks, Attorney General Holder lashed out at the NYPD tactics, calling them 'disturbing' based on news accounts of the program. He didn't bother checking it out, but instead, impugned the integrity of one of the best law enforcement agencies in the world. The wor Continue Reading...
Filed in: War on Terror | by Jay Sekulow | 3:04 PM Mar. 12, 2012
Holder Should Focus on Terrorists, Not NYPD
There is simply no basis in fact for the Department of Justice to review the lawful surveillance techniques used by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) since the devastating attacks of 9/11. These surveillance techniques have thwarted 14 known terrorist attacks in New York City. As we reported last week, Attorney General Holder called the NYPD counterterrorism efforts "disturbing" and told Congress they are under review. What's troubling here is that Holder made serious charges against a Continue Reading...
