Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday endorsed Democrat Ben Jealous for Maryland governor — the latest in a series of high-profile Democrats backing the former NAACP president in his underdog campaign against Republican Gov. Larry Hogan.

Jeff Sessions thinks he can incarcerate his way out of the nation's drug problem and he's 100 percent wrong

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered federal prosecutors to return to tough policies against drug abusers, ending a push by the Obama administration to clear prisons of lower-level criminals serving long, mandatory minimum sentences.

On redistricting reform, Maryland Democrats should listen to Eric Holder and Barack Obama.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to testify Thursday before the Maryland Court of Appeals as it considers new rules aimed at reforming the state's cash bail system.

The DOJ report on Baltimore's policing practices isn't meant to improve law enforcement, but to mobilize a political base in an election year — the object also of former Attorney General Eric Holder's post-Ferguson speaking tour of the nation's large cities.

You might like to see the press ridiculed by Donald Trump or kept at arm's length by Hillary Clinton, but all of us lose when we are forced to vote with as little information as we have about these two elderly candidates.

Former U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday endorsed Glenn Ivey in Maryland's 4th Congressional District contest.

After months of fundraising and campaigning for the job, a former aide to Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. announced late Tuesday that he will seek the GOP nomination for Senate in Maryland.

When Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch visited Baltimore in the aftermath of last month's anti-police riots, she made a point of meeting quietly with a dozen cops as they were going out to patrol the still-tense city.

WASHINGTON -- A former aide to Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and speechwriter for Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. created a federal campaign account Monday to explore running for Maryland's open U.S. Senate seat.

Senate's mishandling of attorney general nominee finally comes to an end

While predictions of future criminality have thus far been made primarily through clinical assessments, often involving in-person interviews, the criminal justice system is turning to analytics to make these predictions. Under this actuarial approach, an individual's risk of recidivism is computed by aggregating the rates of recidivism for individuals possessing the same group characteristics. In the end, the advantages of risk-assessment tools and growing concerns about mass incarceration

Federal prosecutors brought fewer cases against drug offenders in 2014 and pursued mandatory-minimum sentences far less often, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Tuesday – signs of progress, he said, in his effort to reform drug sentencing and ease prison overcrowding.

The attorney general has moved the department away from the harsh mandatory minimum sentencing policies of his predecessors

The FBI director has challenged Americans to face up to some 'hard truths' about police in minority communities

Conservatives should take the high road and liberals should join them, writes Jonah Goldberg.

Senate's roll in 'advice and consent' of attorney general nominee too important for lame duck session

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake won praise from clergy and community leaders Friday after calling for a federal investigation into allegations of police brutality — a move that is all but certain to draw added scrutiny on City Hall. But careful observers noted the request from Rawlings-Blake and Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts came hours after another official — City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young — raised his hand to invite the U.S. Department of Justice in for

Citing "disturbing reports of police misconduct," City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young asked Department of Justice today to conduct a full review of the Baltimore Police Department's polices, procedures and practices. Baltimore police brutality

Holder's legacy is one of contempt for the law

Good riddance to Eric Holder as AG

Fourteen months after he took his seat at the head of the U.S. Department of Labor, Marylander Thomas E. Perez is being eyed for an even more prominent position in President Barack Obama's second-term Cabinet: As a successor to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

Eric Holder should be ashamed of his record as attorney general.

As attorney general, Eric Holder will be remembered as a champion of civil rights in the mold of Robert F. Kennedy

Double-voting is not the only problem facing Maryland and other states that don't have photo ID requirement

WASHINGTON -- Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin teamed up with an unlikely political ally on Tuesday -- Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky -- in pushing for federal legislation to allow millions of Americans with felony convictions to regain their right to vote.

In the Obama administration, the race card has become the joker

A powerful judicial panel voted Friday to slash sentences for thousands of prison inmates — hundreds of them from Maryland — a significant move toward softening severe punishments for federal drug crimes.

Over-the-top outrage over Attorney General Holder's mild suggestion of a racial 'animus' behind criticisms of him and President Obama proves his point

Baltimore principals will be required to take extra steps before suspending 4- and 5-year-olds under a new policy that seeks to curb the practice of kicking the youngest students out of school.

The only way to stop lawbreaking at General Motors or any other big corporation is to prosecute the people who break the law.