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Unkept promise for ‘new era of open government’

By: SF Examiner Editorial 10/18/11 9:00 PM
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Unkept promise for ‘new era of open government’

By: SF Examiner Editorial 10/18/11 9:00 PM
Justice Department documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch exposed quite a contradiction — a secret meeting on transparency in government. It happened on Dec. 7, 2009, and was convened by the Office of Information Policy in the Justice Department headed by Attorney General Eric Holder. Read More

Did White House know about the firearm scandal in Mexico?

By: Ken Klukowski 07/14/11 8:35 PM
Operation Fast and Furious is a growing scandal. Attorney General Eric Holder must go, but Congress should not stop investigating there, and it needs to ask if Democratic operatives knew anything. Fast and Furious is the latest variation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosivess Operation Gunrunner, which allowed U.S. firearms to go to Mexico. It’s a disaster involving more than 2,000 guns, many now being used in crimes and one used to kill a federal agent. Read More

Failed weapons operation appears to be a cover-up

By: SF Examiner Editorial 07/06/11 9:00 PM
It’s been nearly four decades since Watergate, so perhaps we should not be surprised that memories have faded about one of the crucial lessons of that scandal: The cover-up is always worse than the original crime. This amnesia even affects law enforcement officials, notably Attorney General Eric Holder and others in the Justice Department. Read More

White House decision won't affect Prop. 8 fight

By: Katie Worth 02/23/11 11:00 PM
same-sex marriage
The Obama administration’s unusual decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act was met with cheers from San Francisco leaders Wednesday and jeers from Proposition 8 supporters. And there was a request to allow same-sex marriage in California again. Read More

AG Kamala Harris backs state in Sikh’s lawsuit over beard

By: Kamala Kelkar 01/25/11 11:59 PM
Trilochan Singh Oberoi
Three days after she was sworn in as the first Indian-American elected to statewide office, Attorney General Kamala Harris backed a state agency that denied a Sikh man a job because of his beard. When Trilochan Singh Oberoi applied to be a corrections officer in March 2005, he completed a written test and was offered a job contingent on passing a vision test, a physical abilities test, a background investigation, a psychological evaluation and a pre-employment medical exam. Read More

Obamacare lives on despite ruling

By: John R. Graham 01/05/11 7:15 PM
Last month, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli successfully argued that the so-called “individual mandate” in Obamacare was outside congressional competence. Advocates of individual choice in health care cheered a significant victory, but this is not the final judicial word on Obamacare. Read More

Harris declares victory at last

By: Brent Begin 12/01/10 12:31 AM
District Attorney Kamala Harris declared victory in the race for attorney general Tuesday, first in the county that elected her to the state office and then in the city that launched her political career. Read More

Harris election announcement Tuesday

By: Brent Begin 11/28/10 11:42 AM
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris is making a “special announcement” on Tuesday at the Delancey Street Foundation. We wonder what it could be. But besides declaring victory in the race for attorney general, maybe Harris will offer San Franciscans a clue to how she will leave office and who will replace her. Read More

Steve Cooley concedes to Kamala Harris in AG race

By: Brent Begin 11/24/10 12:09 PM
Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley has conceded the race for California attorney general to San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris.“While the margin is extremely narrow and ballots are still being counted, my campaign believes that we cannot make up the current gap in the vote count for attorney general,” Cooley said in a statement Wednesday. “Therefore, I am formally conceding the race and congratulate Ms. Harris on becoming California’s next attorney general.” Read More
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