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Attorney General Eric Holder praised the Justice Departments community outreach program Wednesday on its 20th anniversary.

You have forged strong relationships and unbreakable bonds between law enforcement leaders and community members, Mr. Holder told a gathering of the departments Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).

Over the years, this work has paid dividends in lives improved and saved; in communities strengthened and made more secure; in law enforcement officers made safer; and in taxpayer resources used more effectively, Mr. Holder said.

The COPS program has recently been at the forefront of the departments investigation into racial tensions surrounding Ferguson. While the FBI has been investigating accusations of discrimination at the police department, the program has been working to train St. Louis-area law enforcement officers on better community relations and crowd control techniques.

Mr. Holder even named Ferguson in his speech as an area where COPS was providing intensive training and technical assistance to help law enforcement agencies respond to issues arising from specific incidents.

Mr. Holder contended that setting up partnerships between federal, state and local law enforcement has had a dramatic effect around the nation, saying people need look no further than their own backyards for proof.

I served as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia at a time when Washington was a city in crisis, suffering from an epidemic of crime and corrosive antagonism between residents and law enforcement, he said. In the years since, this citys U.S. Attorneys Office has had striking success in bringing down crime rates in the District.

Mr. Holder said he expects COPS to be in good hands under nominee Loretta Lynch, and said he has no doubt that the next 20 years can bring even more of the positive change that we have seen over the last 20.

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The US government says it will recognise same sex marriages in six more states, following an earlier Supreme Court decision not to take up the debate.

The announcement from Attorney General Eric Holder means gay and lesbian married couples in those states will have the same legal rights and federal benefits as heterosexual couples.

The latest decision covers Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and comes on the heels of a similar decision last week that extended federal recognition to seven states.

Holder's announcement 'brings the total number of states where same sex couples are recognised by the federal government to 32, plus the District of Columbia,' the Justice Department said.

'With each new state where same sex marriages are legally recognised, our nation moves closer to achieving of full equality for all Americans,' Holder said.

'We are acting as quickly as possible with agencies throughout the government to ensure that same sex married couples in these states receive the fullest array of benefits allowable under federal law.'

The statement said Holder had also determined the government would legally recognise same sex marriages in two states, Indiana and Wisconsin, conducted in June. Court battles over gay marriage bans in those states are ongoing.

Earlier this month, the US Supreme Court snubbed appeals from several states where state-level bans on gay marriage had been deemed unconstitutional.

Marriages in those states had been on hold pending the court's decision on whether to hear the cases.

The ruling means that same sex couples in the five states can now have their unions recognised.

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When U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder exits the Obama administration, one of the matters he'll be handing over to his successor is the federal investigation into alleged civil rights violations in Ferguson, Missouri. But a change at the top of the Justice Department isn't expected to impede the probe, especially because U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, Holders likely successor, shares his backstory and credentials on civil rights, legal experts say.

Lynch, the 55-year-old U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, has beennamedas President Barack Obamas nominee to replace Holder, who said last month he would resign and leave office when his successor is confirmed. Amid years of sparring with Republicans, his work on civil rights, including fighting controversial voter identification laws, was one of the first black attorney generals proudest accomplishments. If confirmed by the Senate, Lynch would become the first African-American woman to lead the Justice Department.

Lynch, who grew up in North Carolina in the 1960s, is the daughter of a Baptist minister who worked to desegregate the South, Obama saidlast week during a news conference announcing her nomination. Her grandfather "created his own version of the Underground Railroad by helping Southern blacks escape Jim Crow laws in the 1930s, according to a profile of Lynch in the Network Journal, an African-American publication.

I realized the power the law had over your life and how important it was that the people who wield that power look at each situation with a sense of fairness and evenhandedness, Lynch told the Network Journal.

Its not just her family background that ties Lynch to civil rights, which is one of the top priorities of the Justice Department. As the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Lynch led the successful prosecution in 1999 of Justin Volpe, a white New York City police officer. Volpe was found to have sodomized Abner Louima, a black Haitian immigrant, in a notorious case of police brutality. After her two-year term, Lynch returned to private practice before Obama renominated her as U.S. attorney in 2010. Lynchs second nomination was confirmed in a voice vote, an indication that Republican senators did not then view her as controversial.

"Given her background and history, the law ought to protect everyone. Her prosecution in the Louima case indicates she's anti-police brutality, as she should be," said Trace Schmeltz, a Chicago-based attorney atBarnes & Thornburg LLP. He said Lynch's family history is "a classic American story" about how the rule of law was used to "hold people down and negatively impact people's lives."

Federal investigators are probing officials in Ferguson and St. Louis County for civil rights violations involving the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Michael Brown. The probe is separate from a state grand jury that is deciding whether to indict Police Officer Darren Wilson, the cop who shot and killed Brown in August.

A shakeup in the attorney generals office will have no impact on the federal investigation because lower-level Justice Department officials are handling the probe, according to Jim Cohen, associate law professor at Fordham Law School in New York. The attorney general, in these kinds of cases, isnt going to review all of the subordinates investigations, he said.

There is also no history of an incoming attorney general changing the course of an active investigation, said Lisa Noller, a former assistant U.S. attorney in Chicago and vice chair of Chicago law firm Foley & Lardners government enforcement, compliance and white-collar criminal defense practice. There is nothing in Ms. Lynchs background that says she will take that extraordinary step, Noller said.

More recently, Lynchmet this summer with the family of Eric Garner, the black Staten Island man who died after an NYPD officer put him in a chokehold. Garners death has been referenced during near-daily protests in Ferguson over the Brown shooting as another case of police brutality and racism.

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