Another Historic Move In Washington: US Attorney General Held In Contempt Of Congress

In his first interview since the House of Representatives voted to hold him in contempt of Congress on Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder told the Washington Post that Republicans have made him a "proxy" to attack President Barack Obama. "I've become a symbol of what they don't like about the positions this Justice Department has [...]

Republicans have a much lower opinion of Chief Justice John Roberts and the Supreme Court in general following the court's June 28 decision that upheld President Barack Obama's health care reform law. Only 27 percent of Republicans surveyed by Gallup last week said they had a favorable opinion of Roberts, down from 67 percent after [...]

-"On the rockiest day of his young administration, President Barack Obama did what surely made him happy for a while. He left." That was the lede of an Associated Press account of how the new president and the first lady, Michelle Obama, escaped from the White House to visit a Washington, D.C., public school.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress Wednesday that a serious national security leak required the secret gathering of telephone records at The Associated Press as he stood by an investigation in which he insisted he had no involvement.