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**)&&!@&#^&@ 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.
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Jeanette Lyles| 8.3.09 @ 11:11AM
Our legal system in Louisiana is the most obvious unethical, violating civil rights of all races especially the elderly who have no rights since the legal battles are not worth it. You can end anyone's life if they are elderly and the DA, Sheriff, City, will not even investigate. And the Dept of Hospitals, Elderly Protection, Hospice, and especially hospitals in my area of La cover up and profit from this attitude. I watched my sister in law plan, carry out my parents death, all for money, everything has evidence, events have obvious pattern, she has done this before and had planned my parents some 15 yrs back. And I can do nothing. She has gotten away with theft, lying on record, blackmailing healthcare workers, kidnapping, destroying documents; unathorized to interfere with medical treatment, and many other violations that no one cares about because lawyers, law enforce can't make money off of it. She is attorney and ended both of my parent's lives!!!! And I am angry because I did not know about my State before I had to go through this. They only want the probate legal fees. Very much a gender biaced process, here in Louisiana. I do not think there are any honest attorneys, and have doubt about many of the judges. At least 6 attorneys all corrupt, numerous legal malpractice. They already know no one will take lawsuit so there is no oversite. The oversite is as corrupt as the ones they oversea. Good luck to anyone that is elderly or their children that cherish every day they are alive. They are out of luck.
Dan| 8.3.09 @ 2:39PM
We had an opportunity to go after him, when we had him before the Senate for approval, and we could have gotten to the bottom of his involvement in the pardon of Marc Rich, as well as other assorted undesirables.
Yet Republican Senators gave him a pass.
They're always giving creatures a pass, most recently Graham for instance is giving the "wise latina woman" a pass when even The Washington Post felt obliged to note in an editorial that she was less than honest in her testimony. Which meant she lied, yet Graham wants to let her get away with it.
I don't see who or what is going to be able to "stop" Holder, if Republicans up on Capitol Hill are all from the Orrin Hatch, Dick Lugar, Lindsay Graham school of masculinity.
Marc Jeric| 8.3.09 @ 3:17PM
The rot spreads from the head - our Community Organizer-in-Chief, Abu Hussein from Kenya. Holder pardoned those killer-terrorists from Puerto Rico, and was the Castro's lawyer in the Elian Gonzalez crime. Watch for the ACORN brownshirts committing voter fraud in all 50 states (they won it for that cretin Franken), especially in the 2010 census (Holder will squash all ongoing FBI investigations of ACORN fraud in 14 states). Obama is financing his ACORN thugs with $9 billion in his present stimulus bill, with more billions to come for the census.
Quin| 8.4.09 @ 7:42AM
Weird. If you have to explain a joke, it's not a good one. ...For some reason, I woke up in a panic in the middle of the night thinking that people somehow wouldn't get the bit of self-parody in my post above. Obviously, I was not really cursing Jen Rubin; I was praising her. And my extreme language about Holder was a deliberate set-up to contrast with Jennifer's "sober, thoughtful, thorough case." The subtext was that one does not NEED inflammatory language to make the case that Holder is dangerously politicizing Justice, because the sober, thoughtful laying out of facts -- as Jennifer did -- speaks volumes and fully makes the case on its own merits...... I hasten to explain this, this morning, lest anybody accuse me of some sort of hate crime against the AG.....
G. A. Kevis| 8.4.09 @ 8:34AM
OKkkkkkkkkkkkk,
Where is Senator Hatch on this mutation
of the US Justice Dept ?
ds80| 8.4.09 @ 9:48AM
"... lest anybody accuse me ..."
Quin, your pre-emptory defensive post this AM wouldn't be necessary if the truth of your original article (and Jen's) were in question. The Left will still sputter. But your readers don't doubt your motives.
Quin| 8.4.09 @ 9:53AM
ds80: Thanks much. Again, I really wanted to make clear that I was only jokingly cursing Jennifer. For some reason, in the middle of the night, I worried that it hadn't been clear.....