Post by Queen of the Damned on Feb 2, 2009 22:30:27 GMT -5
Queens prosecutor Eric Holder becomes first African-American Attorney GeneralBY James Gordon Meek
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Monday, February 2nd 2009, 10:30 PM
Eric Holder Wilson/Getty
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The Senate confirmed Eric Holder late Monday as the nation's first African-American attorney general.
The final vote was 75-21, with half of the Senate's GOPers voting against him.
Holder will be sworn in Tuesday morning at the Justice Department by Vice President Biden, a spokesman said.
The Queens-bred prosecutor served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and was an unapologetic opponent of torture in ex-President Bush's war on terror.
But Holder faced tough questions over his role in President Clinton's controversial pardons of fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose wife was a fatcat Democratic donor, and a group of Puerto Rican FALN terrorists in 2001.
Weighty critics of the pardons - former FBI Director Louis Freeh and former Rich prosecutor James Comey - solidly backed his nomination, however.
Meanwhile, the White House plans to announce that Obama will nominate Sen. Judd Gregg as commerce secretary, two Democratic officials familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.
The officials disclosed Gregg's pending nomination on condition of anonymity because a formal announcement had yet to be made.
Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, would join Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood as the third GOPer in Obama's Cabinet.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was initially tapped for the commerce slot, but withdrew amid a pay-to-play probe in his home state.
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DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Monday, February 2nd 2009, 10:30 PM
Eric Holder Wilson/Getty
* GOP pulls knives on pork plans in stimulus
* Bam: If stimulus fails, I'm out in 4 years
* Gingrich: GOP can win back Gillibrand's old seat
* Daschle 'embarrassed' by tax issues; what about Bam?
The Senate confirmed Eric Holder late Monday as the nation's first African-American attorney general.
The final vote was 75-21, with half of the Senate's GOPers voting against him.
Holder will be sworn in Tuesday morning at the Justice Department by Vice President Biden, a spokesman said.
The Queens-bred prosecutor served as deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration and was an unapologetic opponent of torture in ex-President Bush's war on terror.
But Holder faced tough questions over his role in President Clinton's controversial pardons of fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose wife was a fatcat Democratic donor, and a group of Puerto Rican FALN terrorists in 2001.
Weighty critics of the pardons - former FBI Director Louis Freeh and former Rich prosecutor James Comey - solidly backed his nomination, however.
Meanwhile, the White House plans to announce that Obama will nominate Sen. Judd Gregg as commerce secretary, two Democratic officials familiar with the plan told The Associated Press.
The officials disclosed Gregg's pending nomination on condition of anonymity because a formal announcement had yet to be made.
Gregg, a New Hampshire Republican, would join Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood as the third GOPer in Obama's Cabinet.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was initially tapped for the commerce slot, but withdrew amid a pay-to-play probe in his home state.
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