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April 24th, 2024

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Conditioning Senate confirmation of Holder's successor

The U.S. Senate should condition confirmation of any nominee to succeed Attorney General Eric Holder on express commitments under oath to investigate and prosecute through a special prosecutor the Obama administration's rampant lawlessness reminiscent of the Nixon administration and Watergate. The Watergate scandal, however, also occasioned the confirmation precedent for cleansing the Justice Department's Augean Stables.…

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Bruce Fein, who served as associate deputy attorney general and general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission under President Reagan, is president of the law firm Bruce Fein & Associates Inc. He also is the author of "American Empire Before the Fall and Constitutional Peril: The Life and Death Struggle for Our Constitution and Democracy."

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