**)&&!@&#^&@ that $%#&$&#ing Jennifer Rubin. Here I was, planning to do my column later this week on the incredible font of corrupt, race-baiting rottenness otherwise known as Attorney General Eric Holder, and Jennifer Rubin steals my thunder! Her article in the newest issue of The Weekly Standard lays out a sober, thoughtful, thorough case proving that Holder’s Justice Department is becoming frigtheningly lawless (my words, not hers). Read it. And be very afraid.
It’s not just the “nation of cowards” speech or other racial stunts, and not just the outrageous dismissal of the voter intimidation case against dangerous New Black Panthers. It’s also the stonewalling of legitimate congressional inquiry, and it’s also the open politicization of the staffing and the atmosphere at Justice. Rubin writes:
Then there is Les Jin, who was chief of staff to the controversial former chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Mary Frances Berry, who engaged in such regular political stunts as attempting to prevent the seating of George W. Bush’s lawful nominee to the commission. Jin is now in a senior counselor spot at Justice. Another opening has been staffed by Julie Fernandes, an attorney who, prior to joining the department, worked for a left-wing civil rights organization and routinely weighed in on pending cases. Mark Kappelhoff who was chief of the criminal section of the civil rights division at Justice (and who took the position, while serving in the criminal section, that a campaign mailer reminding voters they must be citizens to cast a ballot was illegal “voter intimidation”) maxed out as an Obama donor and has been boosted to principal deputy attorney general for civil rights.
While the Bush administration was investigated for seeking out conservative lawyers and staff, the Obama administration has been given a pass for going to the other extreme and stocking Justice with ultra-left leaning partisans. Overt signs of political activity and support now are on full display throughout the department. While it was unheard of to display campaign literature or paraphernalia during the Bush years, in the Holder Justice Department “Yes we did!” signs are fully evident, as are copies of reverential Obama campaign posters.
And it really does get worse. Again, read Jennifer’s whole article, linked above (at “steals my thunder”). Eric Holder is subverting American justice. He is dangerous. He must be stopped.
