Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that he recused himself from a case involving a Department of Justice decision to subpoena phone records from Associated Press. Holder also said that the Justice Department has ordered a criminal investigation into the IRS' targeting of different conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
Kern County's Sheriff Donny Youngblood is defending the seizure of cellphone video of deputies beating David Sal Silva with batons last week in Bakersfield, California. Silva, a father of four, later died at a nearby hospital.
Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor, was convicted of first-degree in three counts of murder and one count of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of three babies and one adult patient at his inner-city clinic. His sentence is not yet decided, as jurors will reconvene on May 21 to consider whether he should be executed. Gosnell was acquitted of one count of first-degree murder in a fourth abortion.
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for the Associated Press in which AP President a CEO Gary Pruitt called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
