Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. was born in the Bronx, New York, to parents with roots in Barbados. Holder's father, Eric Himpton Holder, Sr. (1905–1970) was born in Saint Joseph, Barbados and arrived in the United States at the age of 11.
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Holder, who announced his resignation Thursday, seemed content to let the multibillion-dollar sports industry try to regulate itself, with mixed results.
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Perhaps the most curious sports-related case prosecuted by Holder’s DOJ involved human growth hormone guru Anthony Galea, the Canadian physician who treated Alex Rodriguez, Tiger Woods and dozens of other elite athletes.
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Attorney General Eric Holder didn't recuse himself from the leak investigation that subpoenaed emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. | Getty Images. Attorney General Eric Holder didn't recuse himself from the leak investigation that subpoenaed emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen. | Getty Images.
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Eric Himpton Holder, Jr. (born January 21, 1951) served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, from 2009 to 2015. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, is the first African American to hold the position of U.S. Attorney General.
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Later, he was Deputy Attorney General of the United States and worked at the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He was senior legal advisor to Barack Obama during Obama's presidential campaign and one of three members of Obama's vice-presidential selection committee.
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Holder formally recused himself from the Clemens case due to a conflict of interest. Before becoming attorney general, Holder had worked at the Covington & Burling law firm, where his friend and colleague Lanny Breuer was one of Clemens’ advisers during the 2008 congressional probe.
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That might have been the high point of the case for Holder’s Justice Department: The government, led by veteran prosecutors Steve Durham and Dan Butler, seemed outclassed by Clemens’ attorney Rusty Hardin and the rest of the defense team for much of the two-month trial.
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Holder has also advocated for the interests of the 36,000 same-sex partnerships where Americans are in relationships with non-U.S. citizens. In May 2011, Holder set aside the decision to deport Paul Dorman, an Irish man who was in a same-sex partnership with a New Jersey citizen.
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WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Eric Holder did not recuse himself from the 2010 search warrant for emails from a Fox News reporter's personal account, a Justice Department official said Monday evening.
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did eric holder ever recuse himself
No, Eric Holder did not ever recuse himself.