Annual Meeting 2009
Holder Speech Highlights ABA Annual Meeting
Posted Sep 1, 2009, 07:40 pm CST
By James Podgers
Delegates, other ABA members and guests greeted him with warm applause at one of Chicago’s largest hotel ballrooms. In a succinct address, Holder laid out the administration’s plans to develop new strategies for dealing with crime in the United States.
Holder said he was relieved that his appearance interrupted a House debate on a matter of challenging substantive law. “I’m always wary in this administration that I’ll have to follow Barack Obama,” he said. “But patents? That’s OK.”
Holder made it clear that the new administration plans to break with recent ones in its efforts to deal with crime and incarceration on the federal level. Outlining the administration’s intention to build its policies on a solid foundation of science and… Continue reading...
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