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When investment banks calculated how to monetize mortgages, they meddled with something beyond money, they meddled with where we live, breath, break bread and raise our children. Yesterday  our attorney general slapped their wrist.

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Attorney General Eric Holder traveled to Chicago where close to 70 students have been murdered since the start of the 2007 school year. Together with Education Secretary Arne Duncan they hope to spark a sustained national conversation on youth violence.

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Attorney General Eric Holder named a special prosecutor to do something President Obama initially said he was against, look back to the previous administration’s possible abuse of prisoners.

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President-elect Obama chooses Eric Holder to be Attorney General. A Columbia Law School graduate, Holder was appointed by Ronald Reagan to serve as Superior Court Judge of the District of Columbia. He stepped down in 1993 to accept an appointment to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. In 1997 Holder was elevated to Deputy Attorney General under Janet Reno in the Clinton administration. He was generally viewed as a centrist in the Justice Department.

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