Tom Fitton Statement On The Confirmation of Jeff Sessions as United States Attorney General.  "When it comes to public policy, the Justice Department has been a locus of evil.  President Obama ruined the Justice Department.  Senator Sessions, now the Attorney General has to build it from the ground up, practically speaking.  On every public policy issue conservatives care about, the Justice Department has been on the other side and usually against the rule of law and helping corrupt politicians try get away with it.  So Senator Sessions really has to reorient the Justice Department to actually advance the interest of the American people and the rule of law, as opposed to subverting it. [...]"  [Video clip]

Feds want Zimmerman, any way they can get him.  This no longer is about George Zimmerman, it's about a Department of Justice serving political interests.

House Judiciary investigating whether Holder lied under oath.  The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath during his May 15 testimony on the Justice Department's (DOJ) surveillance of reporters.  The panel is looking at a statement Holder made during a back-and-forth with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) about whether the DOJ could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act of 1917, an aide close to the matter told The Hill.

Department of Injustice.  Something is very rotten at the U.S. Department of Justice.  No other reasonable conclusion can be drawn from an independent report on the 2008 prosecution of then-Senator Ted Stevens. ... Most damaging to Justice's credibility is that, three years after Judge Sullivan set aside the guilty verdicts against Stevens, the department still hasn't disciplined the men and women involved.  Nor has it instituted harsher penalties for future abuses.

Ted Stevens recap:
Same Plot, Different Actors.  [Scroll down]  In the Stevens case, the government suborned perjury, hid a critical witness for the defense, and suffered no consequences of note for that.  With Stevens out of the Senate, the Democrats rammed through ObamaCare before the serious misconduct of the FBI and DoJ attorneys was known, too late to provide solace to Stevens, who died in a plane crash before the truth was revealed.

Obama Keeps Holder As Attorney General.  President Obama is holding on to Eric Holder as the nation's top law-enforcement official, The [New York] Post has learned.  The newly re-elected president asked his controversial attorney general to stay for the second term, and Holder has agreed despite enduring a firestorm of criticism from Republican lawmakers.  "I don't know if everyone in the White House wants him [Holder] to stay, but the important guy does, and that's all that matters," said one person briefed on the matter.

Undermining faith in law enforcement and national security: the legacy of Eric Holder.  [Scroll down]  Marc Rich is the crooked financier charged with tax evasion, whose wife had contributed huge sums to the Clinton campaign and library.  He fled the country to avoid prosecution, but received a pardon from President Clinton on Holder's recommendation.

U.S. Should Consider Automatic Voter Registration: Holder.  The U.S. should consider automatically registering eligible voters and extending voting hours to counter the November election's long lines and administrative hurdles, Attorney General Eric Holder said.  Holder, speaking today at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, proposed expanding access for voters and overhauling a registration system he called "antiquated."

Mandatory Voting: Is This The Obama Administration's Goal?  [Scroll down]  Remember this as the Obama administration mounts a drive to federalize voter registration, a step toward making voting mandatory.  Attorney General Eric Holder considers it self-evidently alarming that 60 million adult citizens were not registered in 2008.  He wants Washington to register everyone automatically.

Portrait of the Attorney General as a young militant.  According to the Daily Caller, Holder was among the leaders of the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS), which demanded that the former ROTC office be renamed the "Malcolm X Lounge."  The change, the group insisted, was to be made "in honor of a man who recognized the importance of territory as a basis for nationhood."  This statement shows the separatist nature of the group Holder helped lead.  And, indeed, Stefan Bradley, professor of African-American studies at Saint Louis University and author of the 2009 book "Harlem vs. Columbia University," has described the Columbia organization as separatist.

Justice Department Killed Plans For Comprehensive Background Checks.  Those who believe that Barack Obama is an idealist first and a politician second are sorely mistaken.  The Justice Department of the Obama administration decided one year ago, as his reelection effort was getting underway, to ignore proposals that would have allowed the background-check system for gun procurement to be more comprehensive.

Why'd it take 4 massacres for Obama to vow 'These tragedies must end'?  And while we're talking shootings, if the president is so concerned about gun violence, why hasn't he cleaned house in the Justice Department?  Eric Holder et al oversaw the federally-sponsored Fast and Furious gun-running operations that saw hundreds of U.S. weapons sold to drug dealers and dozens of civilians killed in Mexico plus a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry[.]  Holder claims he was unaware of it.  Seriously?  OK, such lethal ignorance would seem to warrant dismissal if Obama has been genuinely concerned over firearm violence all along.

This Is Awkward.  In the America as defined by American media, you know more about Sarah Palin's uterus than you do the Attorney General's criminal background.

House Dems call for dismissal of contempt lawsuit against Holder over Fast and Furious.  The ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform filed an amicus brief Wednesday [12/19/2012] asking for dismissal of the contempt lawsuit brought by House Republicans against Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in the botched "Fast and Furious" gunrunning investigation.

Holder's family papers over his ties to abortion doctor.  Eric Holder Jr.'s family is moving fast and furiously to bury the U.S. Attorney General's ties to one of Georgia's most notorious abortion doctors.  Just cleared by an internal report in the "Fast and Furious" gunrunning debacle, the nation's top lawman now faces allegations that his connection to Dr. Tyrone Cecil Malloy is a conflict of interest that helps explain Holder's failure to prosecute abortion providers who run afoul of federal law.

Special provisions allow 'Fast and Furious' gunrunning lawsuit to continue.  Rep. Darrell E. Issa, California Republican and chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, praised on Friday [12/28/2012] the inclusion of special provisions in the proposed 113th Congress rules package that will keep in place legal obligations on Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. and others at the Justice Department as a result of "Fast and Furious" subpoenas issued in the 112th Congress.

Obama's Lawless Presidency.  Obama has also engaged in a strong campaign to misuse the Department of Justice for political purposes.  His emplacement of Eric Holder as Attorney General was only the first move to turn the DoJ into a weapon against Americans he doesn't like.  Writer and former DoJ lawyer J. Christian Adams has chronicled the extensive damage Holder's DoJ has done to the country with his and Obama's politicization of the department.  In fact, the DoJ has been so ideologically pro-active that this month the federal government has been told to reimburse the state of South Carolina for court costs the DoJ unnecessarily caused as it illicitly attacked the state over its voter ID laws.

Attorney General Holder back at the table for Obama's gun-control push.  Attorney General Eric Holder will be the nation's top law enforcement official as the administration tackles new restrictions on guns in a major initiative of President Obama's second term.  The administration announced Wednesday [1/9/2013] that Holder, a longtime foe of the National Rifle Association (NRA), would remain with Obama for a second term.

Obama Will Keep His "Heat Shield".  Eric Holder may be the least popular member of the Obama cabinet.  He is at the center of many of the Administration's ugliest fights with left and right, over everything from drones to race.  He has a special way of looking pained in nearly every photograph.

DOJ Hopes to Stall Lawsuit Seeking Access to Fast and Furious Records.  The Obama administration is pushing gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook, Connecticut, shootings.  President Obama is using the murders as a pretext to undermine the Second Amendment and collect data on lawful gun owners. But this administration won't come clean on its own gunrunning operation, Operation Fast and Furious, which led to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and countless Mexican citizens.

Holder begins gun-control push.  Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday [1/25/2013] released three proposals to strengthen the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which was one of the 23 actions ordered by Obama last week to tackle gun violence.

Radicalism in the Department of Justice.  Who is running the Justice Department?  It certainly appears evident, as President Obama enters his second term, that leftist radicals have a seat at the table inside Justice and are making both policy and personnel decisions.

Emails Expose Collusion at Highest Levels between Department of Justice and Communist SPLC.  The communists over at the Southern Poverty Law Center are among the gravest threats to freedom in the United States, and are named as such in the AFDI Threats to Freedom Index.  The enemedia eagerly laps up and repeats their designation of pro-freedom groups as "hate groups," and uses this designation as a propaganda tool to demonize and discredit us.  But here is an excellent expose that shows what these subversives are really all about.

Yes, he is a tyrant, just like the Founders warned us against.  This is the same Obama government that ran 2,500 firearms to Mexican cocaine cartels in Operation Fast and Furious, perhaps in order to carry out his promise to Sarah Brady to push for gun control, "under the radar" and above the law.  Obama's Attorney General is in criminal contempt of Congress.  The U.S Attorney for Washington DC, an Obama loyalist, refuses to duty his duty and file charges.

The Democratic Disgrace.  [Scroll down]  A decade later, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held Attorney General Holder in contempt for his cover-up of the Fast and Furious gun-running operation that led to hundreds of deaths.  That made Holder the first sitting cabinet member to be held in criminal contempt of Congress and in another administration that might have led to his dismissal. During the Bush Administration, cabinet members had resigned for much less, but the Democrats had given up even maintaining the pretense of being a law-abiding party.

Holder Flack, DOJ Spokeswoman Resigns from DOJ.  Tracy Schmaler, Attorney General Eric Holder's top press defender, will resign her position on March 8. [...] People who were targets of the collusion between Department of Justice press aide Schmaler and far leftwing advocacy organizations called for her resignation in September 2012, when evidence of her activity emerged.  Now, they are getting their wish.  Emails uncovered last year show Schmaler worked with Media Matters to smear people trying to uncover details about Justice Department scandals.

High-flying Holder: Report shows AG, FBI director used luxury jets for personal travel.  Two high-tech luxury jets that the FBI convinced Congress were needed for the fight against global terrorism have instead been used to ferry around Attorney General Eric Holder and his predecessors, as well as FBI Director Robert Mueller, according to a government report released Thursday [2/28/2013].  Those officials — which included Holder and Mueller, as well as former Attorneys General Michael Mukasey and Alberto Gonzales — racked up nearly 700 "nonmission" trips between 2007 and 2011, at a cost of $11.4 million, according to the Government Accountability Office.

Eric Holder: I have no respect for lawmakers who held me in contempt.  Attorney General Eric Holder admitted to something that the congressional investigators probing Operation Fast and Furious must have already understood:  he has no respect for the legislators who voted to hold him in contempt for refusing to hand over documents about the gun-walking scandal.  I have to tell you that for me to really be affected by what happened, I'd have to have respect for the people who voted in that way," Holder told ABC News when asked about the historic contempt vote.  "And I didn't, so it didn't have that huge an impact on me."

Attorney General Eric Holder is Criminally Dangerous.  With the news today [3/5/2013] that Eric Holder has told Kentucky's U.S. Sen. Rand Paul that President Obama "has the power to authorize lethal force, such as a drone strike, against a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil, and without trial," it is now apparent that this man is criminally out of control, and a menace to society.  This chilling, outrageous, tyrannical assertion of power comes on top of a stunning assertion that he himself is entirely above the law giving Congress the power to oversee federal agencies and to enforce said power — which derives directly from the Constitution — via the ability to hold scofflaws officially in contempt.

Holder, drones, and due process.  In his latest misstep, Attorney General Eric Holder is refusing to rule out the possibility of using armed drones against American citizens within the United States. [...] Holder may have the right idea, but because of his misunderstanding of the law and his political tin ear, he is only frightening the American people — though this seems to be the administration's preferred approach to politics these days.

IG Report Shows Viper's Den at Justice Department.  While the IG labored mightily to credit almost every excuse offered by Obamite political appointees (and their ideological soul-mates in the career ranks) at Justice, the raw facts unearthed (or confirmed) in the new report make crystal clear the most important aspect of the Black Panther case all along:  The dismissal of already-won charges against the Panthers was part and parcel of a long-running hostility within the Civil Rights Division — exacerbated and encouraged by the Obama political team — against race-neutral enforcement of civil rights laws.

Obama court appointee likely to decide contempt battle between Issa, Holder.  A fight over President Obama's use of executive privilege on the documents that led to Attorney General Eric Holder's contempt charges is increasingly likely to be decided in court.  The way the court decides could drastically limit congressional subpoena powers — or curb the extent to which the president can claim executive privilege.

DOJ Spent $100 Million On Conferences In One Year.  Before the sequester took effect Attorney General Eric Holder went out and warned the American people that our safety would be at risk if the budget for the Department of Justice was cut.  What he didn't tell us is how much money the department wastes every year.  Despite having four empty federal prisons, they bought another prison in Illinois for $165 million that's now sitting empty and costing $6 million a year to maintain.  They also spend $1.5 million a year to work with Hollywood.  And in 2010 alone, they spent $100 million on conferences, according to Rep. Bob Goodlatte.

It's Time to Push for Impeachment Proceedings Against Eric Holder.  Eric Holder doesn't have a right to break the law; his job is to ensure the rights of the people, not to strip them away.  Holder, who is appointed to magnify the law against crime, has instead repeatedly magnified crime against the law. [...] Eric Holder has directed the DOJ not to enforce the federal Defense of Marriage Act.  In doing so, Holder has violated his oath of office and clearly shows his violation of the laws of Nature and Nature's God.

Holder gets stormy reception from House panel.  The fact there is no love lost between Attorney General Eric Holder and House Republicans was on clear display again Thursday afternoon [4/18/2013] at a stormy House appropriations panel hearing which culminated with the subcommittee's chairman declaring he'd given up on Holder and his stewardship of the Justice Department.

Eric Holder: Citizenship For Illegal Immigrants Is A 'Matter Of Civil And Human Rights'.  During an April 24 address to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), Attorney General Eric Holder told the crowd that "creating a pathway to earned citizenship" is a critical element of any comprehensive immigration reform plan.  He said that establishing legal status for the nation's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants is a "matter of civil and human rights."

The Editor says...
Does it work the other way?  Can I get Mexican citizenship just by being in Mexico?  Is citizenship (in the foreign country of your choice) a right?

Eric Holder's Reckless Charge.  During a speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Attorney General Eric Holder said that creating a "pathway to earned citizenship" was a "civil right." [...] Attorney General Holder's claim is more than simply silly; it is also pernicious.

Obama Taqiyya.  This week, we have witnessed the remarkable spectacle of HHS Secretary Janet Napolitano asserting before that same body that the administration, sworn to uphold the laws duly passed by that august body, has the right to pick and choose which to enforce, and then Eric Holder telling a Latino group that illegal aliens have a civil right to US citizenship.  Until recently, it had been thought that actual citizens had an actual right to expect that the executive branch would enforce the laws that their elected representatives passed on their behalf [...]

Holder Warns: Don't Discrimminate [sic] Against Muslims After Boston.  Apparently, granny will still be getting the full pat down experience at the airport instead of young Muslim men returning home from volatile, Jihad ridden regions of the world like Dagestan.  Attorney General Eric Holder is warning Americans not to discriminate against Muslims in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Holder warns against Boston bombing backlash.  Attorney General Eric Holder declared Monday that the Justice Department is on the lookout for acts of violence or discrimination that signal a backlash to the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this month in which three people were killed and scores wounded.

Justice Department hiring request fuels bias complaints; 44 civil rights lawyers sought.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s 2014 fiscal budget says the bulk of the attorneys being sought by the Justice Department are earmarked to help meet the "nation's civil rights challenges," to support the "department's vigorous enforcement of federal civil rights laws" and to expand criminal enforcement efforts against "police misconduct."  But several senior Republicans said the Civil Rights Division historically has hired lawyers based on their political views and not their legal experience, [...]

DOJ Won't Require Warrants for Email, Chat Seizures.  In blatant violation of the Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure, the Department of Justice has apparently declared that they do not require warrants for grabbing Americans' emails and Facebook chats.  The ACLU has gotten hold of the documents from the FBI and DOJ that show that a subpoena, which comes from a prosecutor, is all that is necessary to seize emails and chats.

Race-Hustling Anti-Semite Running Obama DOJ.  [Scroll down]  In fact, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney specifically said during a media briefing early this week that thoughts and prayers go out to the slain teen's family, but "obviously we're not going to wade into a local law enforcement matter."  That was a day before Sharpton directed the feds to take over.

The Bloody Hands of Barack Obama.  Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, conducted a secret gun-running operation that supplied thousands of assault weapons to drug cartels in Mexico.  Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and ICE Agent Jaime Zapata were both murdered with Fast and Furious guns.  Their families have filed wrongful death lawsuits against the federal government.

Priebus demands Holder resign over AP probe.  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder must resign after his agency collected two months of telephone records from reporters at the Associated Press, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Tuesday [5/14/2013].  "Freedom of the press is an essential right in a free society.  The First Amendment doesn't request the federal government to respect it; it demands it," Priebus wrote in a statement Tuesday.

Eric Holder Recuses Himself From Leak Investigation.  Attorney General Eric Holder has recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation.  He will officially announce his recusal at a press conference Tuesday afternoon [5/14/2013].  Fox News is reporting his recusal comes partially because Holder has testified about potential national security leaks surrounding a May 7, 2012 Associated Press story.

Eric Holder is playing dumb.
Holder Doesn't Know If Anyone Ever Prosecuted Under Born Alive Infant Protection Act.  Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday [5/15/2013] he did not know whether there has been even one prosecution under the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.  "Have you ever enforced this law even one time?" Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) asked Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing after referencing abortionist Kermit Gosnell, who was convicted of three counts of first degree counts murder in the deaths of three babies whose spinal cords were severed after they were born alive.  "I don't know," Holder replied.

GOP'er Louie Gohmert Trashes Eric Holder For Ignoring Islamic Radicals While Targeting Christians.  Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) tore into Attorney General Eric Holder during Wednesday's congressional hearings in relation to what the Department of Justice knew about Boston Marathon bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.  Gohmert insisted that the Justice Department has refused to investigate Islamic radicals in the United States while targeting Christian groups for undue scrutiny.

Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama.  In Part One of this series, published on Monday [5/13/2013], I used the word "Watergate" seven times, openly comparing the scandalous Obama administration to the scandalous Nixon administration.  I didn't know the half of it.  Just hours after Part One ran, we all learned the disturbing news of the rogue Justice Department wiretaps on the Associated Press.  Now, even the liberals in the MSM are in an uproar, and the chief target is Attorney General Eric Holder.

Why Barack Obama's imperial presidency is imploding.  Yesterday [5/15/2013] Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House Judiciary Committee on a host of issues including the Benghazi debacle, in what can only be described as a train wreck of a performance.  Holder was simply unable or unwilling to answer most key questions, and demonstrated a level of contempt for elected officials in Congress that was breathtaking.  It was yet another public relations disaster for the Obama team.  In addition the administration has come under heavy fire over the Justice Department's monitoring of phone records belonging to Associated Press journalists.

Exclusive: Holder Says 'No' to Special Counsel to Investigate Benghazi.  Breitbart News has obtained an exclusive video of Attorney General Eric Holder flatly rejecting the idea of appointing a special counsel to investigate Benghazi.

Holder plays dumb.  Attorney General Eric Holder was in a familiar spot yesterday: testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, dodging and weaving and otherwise doing his best imitation of Sgt. Schultz from the old TV show "Hogan's Heroes":  I know nothing.  Scandals at the IRS?  Under investigation, can't comment. Subpoenaed phone records of Associated Press reporters?  How should I know?  I recused myself.  That's not testifying — that's obfuscating.

Eric Holder's abdication.  As the nation's top law enforcement official, Eric Holder is privy to all kinds of sensitive information.  But he seems to be proud of how little he knows.

Know Nothing.  Attorney General Eric Holder used the phrase "I don't know" or some variation, at least 57 times during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee today as House Republicans grilled him over controversies including the IRS' targeting of Tea Partiers, the Justice Department's seizure of journalist phone records, and the security lapses surrounding the Boston bombing.

Holder Caught Lying — Again.  Is there no accountability and punishment?  Eric admits that there is nothing in writing on recusal from the AP case — the only person told was the deputy attorney general.

Obama's crew plays dumb and dumber.  Has President Nixon been replaced by Sergeant Schultz?  The "Smartest President Ever" has disappeared.  The Barack Brain Trust long-touted by liberals is gone — replaced by hacks whose rallying cry is straight from Stalag 13 — "I know nothing.  Nothing!"  The top law enforcement agency in the land spied on the top news-gathering organization, secretly seizing phone records from their home and cell phones.  They did so without the legally required notice to the Associated Press.  And what did Attorney General Eric Holder say when asked why his Department of Justice would do such a thing?

Terrorists given new identities allowed to board commercial flights, IG report finds.  An investigation of the Justice Department's witness protection program uncovered glaring security problems that allowed terrorists who had been given new identities after cooperating with U.S. prosecutors to board commercial flights in the United States.  In some cases, suspects whose names were on federal watch lists that were meant to keep them off commercial aircraft were nevertheless able to board flights because the Justice Department had failed to add their new, government-issued identities to counterterrorism databases.

Deval as Holder's fill-in? That just wouldn't be just.  Just when you think the news surrounding Obamagate cannot get any worse, it does.  Some say U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's days on the job are numbered and that it's just a matter of when he'll be forced to resign.  While I'll not shed a tear over Holder's departure, one of the replacement names being floated has me reaching for tissues:  Gov. Deval Patrick.

DOJ on 'Gays': 'Silence Will be Interpreted as Disapproval'.  [Scroll down]  The document is chilling.  It's riddled with directives that grossly violate — prima facie — employees' First Amendment liberties.  Following are excerpts from the "DOJ Pride" decree.  When it comes to "LGBT" employees, managers are instructed:  "DON'T judge or remain silent.  Silence will be interpreted as disapproval."

Holder walks fine line on prosecuting journalists.  Attorney General Eric Holder's rejection last week of the idea of prosecuting journalists for publishing classified information sounded categorical and absolute.  But was it?  Under questioning by Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Holder dismissed the notion of prosecuting reporters as, basically, nuts.

The Obama enemies list.  [Scroll down]  Mr. Holder has been held in criminal contempt of Congress for his role in the Fast and Furious scandal, but he continues with business as usual.  Those who abuse the power and authority of the government deserve more than a light tap on the wrist and a generous lifetime pension.  If Mr. Obama won't live up to his promise to protect whistleblowers, Congress must strengthen the law to impose real penalties.

Obama '07: AG's Job Is to Tell WH 'Here are the Limits of Your Power'.  In 2007, then Senator Barack Obama appeared on CNN's Larry King Live and called on U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign.  Obama said Gonzales was acting more like the president's attorney than the people's attorney and viewed himself as an "enabler of the administration."

Obama Executive Orders on Guns Would Spark Mass Resistance.  The Constitution, of course, reserves all legislative powers to Congress — not to mention the specific prohibition against infringements on gun rights contained in the Second Amendment.  But disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder, who is helping develop the "executive action" plot, was caught in the 1990s on video calling for a tax-funded campaign to "brainwash" people against guns.  He was also held in criminal contempt of Congress for lying about Operation Fast and Furious, which saw the Justice Department providing thousands of powerful guns to Mexican drug cartels through the ATF.

Bombshell: Eric Holder Lied to Congress Under Oath.  During friendly questioning from Rep. Hank "I fear that Guam will capsize!" Johnson in Congress last week, Attorney General Eric Holder offered the following statement.  ["]In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material.  This is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy.["]  He made that statement before the facts about the sweep on Fox News' James Rosen were known.  Since then, it's come to light that Holder himself approved the subpoena that, among other things, named Rosen as a criminal co-conspirator.  So, Eric Holder lied under oath before a congressional hearing.
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Holder must go.  Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a "possible co-conspirator" in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday [5/23/2013].

DOJ Acknoweldges that Holder Signed Off on Subpoena for Fox Reporter's Emails and Phone Records.  Eric Holder did it.  Then he lied about it.  Between doing it and lying about it, he tried to hide it.

Obama Orders Eric Holder To Investigate Himself.  The president worries about the "chilling effect" of leak investigations as his attorney general signs the warrant labeling a Fox News reporter as a violator of the Espionage Act.  The hypocrisy is breathtaking.

Eric Holder Lied Under Oath In Front Of Congress.  The people in the Obama Administration have gotten a free ride for so long that they apparently believe they can get away with anything.  That may be the only thing that explains Eric Holder doing something as stupid as this.

Eric Holder was aware that Fox News reporter was to be snooped on.  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder approved the decision to seize phone records and personal emails of FOX News reporter James Rosen, the Justice Department disclosed late Friday [5/24/2013].  The journalist's messages were obtained after investigators checked with 'the highest levels of the department, including discussions with the Attorney General,' the department said in a statement.

Senators say Holder can't 'review' himself on news media snooping.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s direct involvement in the Justice Department's decisions to spy on the press should disqualify him from heading any review of the unfolding controversy, Republicans said Sunday.  Questions have been raised about the attorney general's role in two Justice Department investigations of leaks, one involving a massive seizure of Associated Press phone records and another an aggressive probe of Fox News reporter James Rosen's private emails.

Holder Perjury: Two Judges Refused Before Holder Got Fox Warrant.  This isn't going to go down well for Eric Holder and the administration.  Last night [5/23/2013] NBC News reported that it was AG Holder who personally approved the decision to go after Fox News' James Rosen.  Today the Department of Justice told Reuters the NBC report is correct, possibly setting up the Attorney General to be indited for perjury.

[Eric] Holder either lied to Congress, lied to the judge, or doesn't read what he signs.
Fake flowers and the pretend White House press corps.  Here is what Attorney General Eric Holder testified to when, while under oath, he was asked about the Department of Justice's investigations of journalists and national security leaks:  "In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material:  This is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy."

Attorney General Eric Holder Reportedly Felt 'Personal Remorse' Over Fox News Subpoena.  After reading the [Washington] Post front-page story on the Rosen leak probe, in addition to the ongoing AP snooping story, Holder's aides claim the AG began to feel a "creeping sense of personal remorse."  Despite having personally signed off on the search of Rosen's private information, "the gravity of the situation didn't fully sink in" for Holder until he saw the newspaper report based on the affidavit for the search warrant that helped the feds obtain Rosen's private data.

Fire Eric Holder.  In the greatest attack on the free press in decades, the Justice Department seized phone records for reporters and editors in at least three AP offices as well as its office in the House of Representatives.  Holder, however, proceeded to claim absolute and blissful ignorance of the investigation, even failing to recall when or how he recused himself.  Yet, this was only the latest attack on the news media under Holder's leadership.

'I hate my policies'.  Attorney General Eric Holder says (or had his flunkies say) he only understood the severity of his own actions against Fox News reporter James Rosen when he was sitting at his breakfast table reading The Washington Post on a Monday morning.  Yes, that's what he told the Daily Beast, which did him the inestimable favor of not crumpling to the ground in hysterical peals of laughter.  For one thing, the story about the Rosen subpoena was released on the [New York] Post's Web site the day before.

Eric Holder. Remember him? Or is your memory as bad as his?  You may remember "Fast and Furious," that outrageous and, by the way, illegal gun-running operation by his department that sent weapons to drug cartels in Mexico?  Nope, he never heard of it.  Oh, well, wait.  Those words do ring a bell.  Yes, yes he had heard of it after all.  But can't quite remember when he heard of it.  Or when he ordered it stopped.  If he did.  There's a lot of bad memory going around this Obama administration.

Eric Holder's attempted off-the-record press briefing
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AP Won't Attend Holder's Off-Record Briefing.  The Associated Press is the latest major news outlet to inform President Obama's Department of Justice that they will not be participating in an off-the-record briefing on how Eric Holder's team deals with journalists who work with leakers.  The announcement came about an hour after the New York Times declined participation as well.

N.Y. Times will not attend DOJ session, citing opposition to off-the-record provision.  New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson has announced that her paper will not attend an off-the-record session with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the Justice Department's monitoring of reporters, due to the fact that the meeting is to be conducted "off the record."

NYT Refuses DOJ Invite Thanks to Holder's Off-the-Record Demand.  After reports broke that the Department of Justice would be holding an off-the-record meeting with members of the press to discuss its policies on monitoring journalists, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson announced that the Gray Lady would not be attending.

Holder's chutzpah.  So Attorney General Eric Holder invited members of the media — some of whom his Justice Department had expressly targeted for surveillance under dubious national-security claims — in for sit-down, and almost nobody came.  The Associated Press, one of Holder's targets, said no.  The New York Post said no.  The New York Times said no.  CNN said no.  Fox News, another target, said no.  Even the liberal Huffington Post said no, not if it's off the record.

Media Uncomfortable At Holder's Off-The-Record Offer.  The Washington press corps is squirming after being offered a secretive briefing from fork-tongued Attorney General Eric Holder.  What was that about open government and journalistic scrutiny?

Growing boycott of Eric Holder media meetings.  Several news organizations have announced they will not attend this week's off the record meetings with Attorney General Eric Holder unless the sit-downs are conducted on the record.  CNN, Fox News, CBS News, Reuters, NBC News and McClatchy on Thursday joined The Associated Press, The New York Times and The Huffington Post in refusing to go to one of the Department of Justice's off the record sessions about the department's handling of investigations into journalists.

Not Satire: WaPo's Surreal Report on Holder's Off-the-Record Press Freedom Meeting.  Sean Higgins thinks this Washington Post "report" on Eric Holder's widely-boycotted confab with journalists is "beyond parody." [...] Eric Holder pledged to take "concrete steps" to address the actions of Eric Holder — up to and (possibly) including backing legislative action that would curtail Eric Holder's ability to abuse Eric Holder's power.  What a guy.  Direct quotes would be priceless here, but those weren't allowed, of course.  Instead, the DOJ very magnanimously permitted reporters to offer "general" accounts of what was discussed.

Washington Post: The Justice Department has allowed us to say AG Holder supports press freedom.  Holder's condition was that the meeting be "off the record," meaning none of the reporters would be allowed to report what was said at the meeting.  Among those who did attend was the Washington Post.  Today's Post has an account of the meeting — sort of.  That is, they have a story about what the Justice Department allowed them to say about its efforts to protect press freedom.  The result is just beyond parody.

Eric Holder, giving Justice a bad name.  So, Attorney General Eric Holder approved a search warrant targeting Fox News's James Rosen for the crime of journalism with malice aforethought.  Then the Justice Department shopped around for a judge who would keep the surveillance of professional and private e-mails secret.  Then the department fought the public disclosure of the warrant since it wanted the flexibility to continue the investigation "for many years."

Holder Personally Sued in Massive Tea Party Abuse Lawsuit.  Attorney General Eric Holder is now personally on the hook for what he and other Obama administration officials have done in office.

House committee opens perjury probe of Holder.  The House Judiciary Committee opened an investigation Wednesday into whether Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. lied under oath in testimony about the Justice Department's surveillance of journalists, while the White House declared again that President Obama "absolutely" has confidence in Mr. Holder.

Did Eric Holder Commit Perjury? It Looks That Way.  In his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, Eric Holder was asked whether the Justice Department could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act of 1917.  This was his answer:  ["]In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material — this is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy.["]  Later, the Department of Justice disclosed that Holder had personally approved the application for the search warrant for James Rosen's Gmail account.

House Republicans express "great concern" about possible Holder perjury.  Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday [5/29/2013] expressing "great concern" about the possibility that Holder lied under oath during his testimony earlier this month on the Justice Department's seizing of journalists' records, CBS News has learned.

More commentary about Eric Holder.  President Obama's human firewall sure seems to be crumbling these days, a victim of his own intransigence as well as his deep, heartfelt and longtime radicalism — a radicalism that, by definition, renders him unsuitable for any position that requires him to defend the very institution with which he's been entrusted.

DOJ Tells Employees to Verbally Affirm Homosexuality.  The Department of Justice has been accused of religious intolerance and viewpoint discrimination after workers were sent an email directing them to verbally affirm homosexuality, according to a law firm specializing in religious liberty and now representing a DOJ whistleblower.  Liberty Counsel said DOJ employees were emailed a brochure called "LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers."  The brochure was created as a resource from DOJ Pride, an association of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees of the DOJ.

Pentagon Papers Lawyer James Goodale: It's Time for Eric Holder to Resign.  The attorney general's conduct in trying to pass off the James Rosen subpoena as falling under the Espionage Act proves that he is abusing his office.  Pentagon papers lawyer James Goodale has seen this before — in Richard Nixon.

Deadline set for James Cole to detail Eric Holder's recusal.  Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole has until the end of business Friday [5/31/2013] to tell a House committee how and when his boss, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., recused himself in the Justice Department's subpoena of two months of telephone records of at least 20 reporters and editors at The Associated Press.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Virginia Republican, and Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican who leads the panel's subcommittee on crime, terrorism, homeland security and investigations, want to know whether Mr. Holder committed perjury when he told the committee under oath May 15 he knew AP had secretly been targeted but he was "not familiar with the way the subpoena had been structured."

Ted Cruz To Megyn Kelly: Eric Holder Should Resign For 'Unprecedented' 'Willingness To Disregard The Law'.  Appearing on Fox News' America Live this afternoon [5/30/2013], Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blasted the Department of Justice, the Internal Revenue Service, and leaders from both parties for "not respecting the Bill of Rights" through a variety of recent scandals including the snooping on journalism outlets and the purposeful targeting of conservative groups for additional tax scrutiny.

7 Reasons Why the Media Shouldn't Keep Eric Holder's Secrets.  The basic facts:  The Justice Department seized telephone records at the Associated Press as part of an investigation into the leak of a foiled terrorist plot.  The media spying was unprecedented in its scope and in violation of the department's own guidelines.  In a separate leak investigation, the department monitored the e-mails and whereabouts of a Fox News reporter.  In a warrant application, Holder's team labeled the reporter a criminal coconspirator.

Did Eric Holder Also Lie... to a Judge?  In his warrant application, Holder claimed to be interested in investigating James Rosen as a coconspirator in an espionage case.  In addition, he claimed Rosen was a "flight risk," which would justify even closer monitoring (to make sure he wasn't buying plane tickets on Kayak, I suppose).  Now he says he never had any intention of prosecuting Rosen.  In other words:  He now says he lied when he told the judge these things, in order to secure his license to snoop on Rosen.  Well, which is it?

Stewing in his own juices.  Now House Republicans are talking about perjury, and it would seem that they have, well, probable cause.  As a legal matter, this isn't a worry for Holder.  His Justice Department isn't going to prosecute him for perjury, just as it didn't prosecute him when lawmakers held him in contempt of Congress:  L'etat, c'est lui.

Holder Should Resign, but Obama Is the Problem.  A prediction:  there will be an effort by Team Obama to rally around Eric Holder, but before too long he will resign as attorney general.  He'll do so because he's doing considerable, even durable, damage to the president — and the president, well-versed in the Chicago Way, will jettison Holder if he determines it's in his political interest.  It is.

Eric Holder's Long History Of Lying To Congress.  Before he lied to Congress while under oath about what he knew about targeting reporters, he lied about Fast and Furious.  As early as the New Black Panthers case, Eric Holder had a problem with the truth.

Justice Dept. says Holder didn't lie before congressional committee.  Attorney General Eric Holder's sworn testimony before lawmakers this month was "accurate and consistent with the facts," a Justice Department spokesman stressed late Thursday [5/30/2013].  Holder's statements at the May 15 hearing of the House Judiciary Committee have come under scrutiny from congressional Republicans, who are looking into whether the attorney general lied under oath earlier this month when he said he wasn't involved in the "potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material."

The Editor says...
The Justice Department spokesman works for Eric Holder, and retains his employment only as long as Mr. Holder is happy with him.  He therefore has no choice but to defend Mr. Holder, and his words are to be discounted.

Issa warns Holder not to take 'perjury lightly'.  House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) strongly suggested that Attorney General Eric Holder perjured himself before a congressional panel investigating the Justice Department's treatment of reporters.  In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Issa warned Holder not to "use perjury lightly" when discussing his approval of a search warrant for the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen.  "It's hard to have confidence in what this attorney general says or what his people say," Issa said Sunday [6/2/2013].

Journalist Lemmings Dive Off Cliff While AG Holder Spies, Blusters and Prevaricates.  Of all of the accidentally hilarious aspects of the implosion of Obama's War Against the Bill of Rights, none is more informative than his broadside against journalism and Freedom of the Press.  What does it say about those who take their very sustenance from the 1st Amendment Free Speech clause that many want to extinguish other people's constitutional liberties at every possible opportunity?

Contentious Episodes in Holder's Tenure.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has faced criticism for several polarizing decisions made under the Obama administration.

West Wing Throws Holder Under the Bus.  Liberals and Democrats have been doing their best to stonewall calls for Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation, but apparently some of those serving in the office of his boss aren't as much in love with him as some of his defenders elsewhere.

Eric Holder is not going anywhere.  Attorney General Eric Holder is not going anywhere.  He will not be fired, go to jail, be held accountable, or even have his boss make the "shame, shame" index finger motion.  Eric Holder is above the law.  The administration implied this for four years, and 2012 was the last opportunity to issue any consequences.

The Smoking Gun in Plain Sight.  [Scroll down]  And while demonizing his political enemies, what sort of people did the president appoint to key jobs in his administration?  His attorney general is Eric Holder, a sleazy Democratic operative who not only called the American people "cowards" for their approach to racial issues — this after the majority of us elected a black president — but who played a crucial role as deputy attorney general in the scandalous and still-uninvestigated pardon of Marc Rich in the Clinton administration's dying hours.

Even some West Wing aides want Holder to resign.  Republicans have long been calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to resign.  But citing new controversies at the Justice Department, The New York Times reported Sunday that even some West Wing aides in President Barack Obama's White House now want Holder gone.

Are The Long Knives Coming Out For Eric Holder?  The White House has done its best (and sometimes its worst) to crack down on leaks in order to control the Washington information flow.  So it's all the more interesting that West Wing insiders now seem to be whispering that Attorney General Holder is a liability who needs to go.

Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder Still Blocking the Truth.  This is not the first time that Hillary Clinton, Cheryl Mills, and Eric Holder have been accused of attempting to thwart a congressional investigation.  Not by a long shot.

Loyalty Rewarded: Susan Rice and Samantha Power.  Obama cares little about the public's opinion of his appointees; see how tenaciously he has clung to Eric Holder so far through thick and thin.

Should Congress Impeach Eric Holder?  Eric Holder — Obama's Attorney General — should be impeached by the Republican House of Representatives.  Without a doubt, Holder's obvious perjury in lying to Congress is the most serious offense.  But to understand one of Holder's underlying offenses (in a long string), one must know the difference between "good law" and "bad law."  Under the letter of the law, the search warrant for Fox News reporter James Rosen's emails appears proper.  But the Attorney General defied U.S. Supreme Court precedents.

Did Eric Holder Monitor the Phones of Congress?  Maybe, maybe not. During testimony on Capitol Hill Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder was asked to assure that the phones of Congress had never been monitored by the Department of Justice in light of secret monitoring of reporters and 141 million Verizon Wireless customers.  Holder refused to give an answer.

Valerie Jarrett: Take it from me, Eric Holder will be Attorney General for quite a while.  During an interview with Huffington Post Live, President Obama's senior adviser Valerie Jarrett pushed back against the idea that Eric Holder might step down as attorney general.  "That's definitely not the case.  I think that one of the things you learn in this business is, don't listen to rumors," Jarrett said bluntly.  "You can take it from me — obviously I know the president pretty well, I know the attorney general pretty well, and he will be in his position for quite a while."  Jarrett added that Holder had the "full confidence and respect" of the president.

Eric Holder Clinches the Case For His Resignation or Removal.  Eric Holder's interview with Pete Williams of NBC News is, as John says, a classic.  It seems to me that Holder's statements during the interview nail down the case that he lied to Congress or to a court.

Eric Holder
  •   Was appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia by President Bill Clinton
  •   Vetted the Clinton administration's 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001
  •   Was deeply involved in Clinton's pardons of Marc Rich and the Puerto Rican FALN terrorists
  •   Condemned the Guantanamo Bay detention center as an "international embarrassment"
  •   Was appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Barack Obama
  •   Strong opponent of gun rights
  •   Sought to try islamic terrorists in civilian courts rather than in military tribunals
  •   Filed suit against several states that had passed laws designed to stem the flow of illegal immigration
  •   Opposes efforts to purge voter rolls of ineligible names, or to enact voter-ID laws

Attorney General Eric Holder is not up to the task.  People are looking for the wrong "scandal" about Attorney General Eric Holder.  The problem with Holder is the plain fact that, in the judgment of a wide range of legal colleagues, he has been a mediocre attorney general.

DOJ Hasn't Found One Improper FOIA Exemption Since 2009.  The Department of Justice told top congressional investigators Monday it has not challenged a single instance of a federal agency withholding records from Freedom of Information (FOIA) requestors since 2009.

The Casual Tyrant.  It takes a special brand of chutzpah to use one's own misdeeds as an occasion for "debate" or "updating" the law. [...] Eric Holder experimented with that tactic after he got nabbed for hacking into the emails of journalist James Rosen on a subpoena that defined him as a criminal spy.  Instead of quitting, Holder dug in, casting the scandal as a learning experience for the nation, as if he had nothing to do with it.  Now Obama is trying out that tactic to mollify Americans over the exposed NSA program.  He is open to a "healthy" debate about it.  Holder and Obama are like drunk drivers who cause a pile-up and then stroll back innocently to see if they can "help."

The felonious fibbers.  Thousands of Americans are languishing in federal prisons for lying to federal officials.  Federal officials themselves often get a pass when they tell a whopper to Congress.  It's a double standard that must end.  The problem starts at the top with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.

The felonious fibbers.  The problem starts at the top with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. [...] Two years ago, Mr. Holder told a House hearing that he was unfamiliar with the administration's gunrunning operation.  "I'm not sure of the exact date," Mr. Holder told the House Judiciary Committee, "but I probably heard about Fast and Furious for the first time over the last few weeks."  Documents surfaced showing that he learned about the program nearly a year earlier.

Holder dodges GOP subpoena.  Attorney General Eric Holder has agreed to meet with House Republicans as part of their probe into whether he misled Congress or acted inappropriately in the Justice Department's investigation of two separate leaks to media outlets.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) made the announcement late Friday [6/14/2013] after exchanging several weeks worth of testy letters with the nation's top cop.  In agreeing to meet with the lawmakers, Holder staved off the threat of a subpoena from Goodlatte for a second time in as many weeks.

Impeach Eric Holder.  In a recent talk radio interview, Texas Congressman Lamar Smith the former Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, confirmed a rumor that behind closed doors he has heard a number of his colleagues discussing the impeachment of Holder.  Congress has the authority to impeach any Senate-confirmed cabinet official or federal judge, not just presidents.

Justice, State Departments Hosting Gay Pride Events This Week.  The departments of Justice and State this week are holding back-to-back LGBT events in honor of gay pride month, and as the Supreme Court prepares to deliver two landmark decisions on same-sex marriage.  On Tuesday [6/18/2013], the Justice Department celebrated pride with speeches from Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., the first openly gay member of the Senate, singer-songwriter and gay and lesbian activist Melissa Etheridge, and Attorney General Eric Holder, all on the theme "A Year of Firsts," according to DOJPride.com, the official site for LGBT Employees at the department.

Holder: More to Be Done for LGBTs, No Matter How SCOTUS Rules on DOMA, Prop 8.  Attorney General Eric Holder hosted a "pride" event for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders at the Justice Department on Tuesday, telling attendees that the homosexual agenda will be a "priority" during the remainder of his time as the nation's top cop.  "The fact remains that across the country far too many LBGT Americans suffer discrimination each and every day," Holder said.

Eric Holder: James Rosen probe 'appropriate'.  Attorney General Eric Holder is defending his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in a new letter, reiterating that he did not lie when he told the committee no journalists have been prosecuted by the Justice Department for publishing leaks.  Holder called the investigation that involved Fox News reporter James Rosen "appropriate," saying again that charges were never brought against Rosen and saying the committee might have misinterpreted his remarks.

Justice for Trayvon, Race-Hustler Style.  Right now, hanging on the door of a federal employee's office in the Department of Justice Voting Section is a sign expressing racial solidarity with Trayvon Martin.  What this has to do with the Department of Justice is perhaps a mystery, but not to me.  One might ponder why the Justice Department Civil Rights Division rushed to Florida in the first place and took sides once the racial furnace was sufficiently stoked.  When Eric Holder's old pal from D.C. (and a Philadelphia court case), New Black Panther chieftain Malik Zulu Shabazz, called for a 10,000 strong black-male mob to seize George Zimmerman, we knew what was in store.  It wasn't going to be justice.

Flashback — Holder: Universal Voter Registration Through Federal Benefits.  Election integrity advocates must always remember that even progressive contingency plans have contingency plans.  President Obama's reported statement in Senegal regarding the Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act as outdated and unconstitutional was a dog whistle to election law agitators that deserves interpretation.

DOJ Defunds Youth Programs That Reference God.  The Department of Justice has summarily removed federal funding from two Louisiana youth programs because a local official refused to sign a pledge stating he would require the programs to ban mentions of God.

The Role of the Justice Department in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests.  Judicial Watch announced today [7/10/2013] that it has obtained documents in response to local, state, and federal records requests revealing that a little-known unit of the Department of Justice (DOJ), the Community Relations Service (CRS), was deployed to Sanford, FL, following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman.

Trayvongate: Newest Obama Scandal is 17 Months Old.  Welcome to Trayvongate, where the President of the United States used both the bully pulpit, the Department of Justice and sly media manipulation to gin up charges of racism in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting.

Department of Justice reportedly organized pro-Trayvon Martin protests.  According to documents released earlier today by the anti-corruption, conservative organization Judicial Watch, a little-known division of the Justice Department sent agents to the central Florida port city of Sanford in order to deal with community relations after Trayon Martin's fatal shooting last year.  "Records obtained by Judicial Watch in response to local, state and federal public records requests show that the so-called peacekeepers are part of a large and growing division within DOJ called the Community Relations Service (CRS)," the group reported.

Docs: Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman protests.  A division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) was deployed to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to provide assistance for anti-George Zimmerman protests, including a rally headlined by activist Al Sharpton, according to newly released documents.  The Community Relations Service (CRS), a unit of DOJ, reported expenses related to its deployment in Sanford to help manage protests between March and April 2012, according to documents obtained by the watchdog group Judicial Watch.

Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin protests.  Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.  Zimmerman is on trial for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in February 2012.  Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012.  According to the documents JW received, a little-known DOJ unit called the Community Relations Service deployed to Sanford, FL, to organize and manage rallies against Zimmerman.

Tea party petition to prosecute Eric Holder nears 1 million signers.  A tea party group that launched a petition drive to prosecute U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder reported on its Facebook page that nearly 1 million have signed on — and the movement is only growing by the minute.

Taxpayers Helped Sharpton Stir Anti-Zimmerman Anger.  The Obama administration spent thousands of federal dollars to help the Rev. Al Sharpton pressure the state of Florida to railroad George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting case.  The Justice Department not only met with Martin's parents and the notorious racial arsonist Sharpton, as we reported earlier this week.  It even helped them organize rallies against Zimmerman, who trial evidence shows shot Martin in self-defense.

Obama's Alinskyite Administration.  Judicial Watch, a conservative legal foundation, has used the Freedom of Information Act to uncover documents that show Eric Holder's Justice Department used a "community relations" unit to support and stage-manage public protests in Florida against George Zimmerman after his controversial February 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin.  Justice's Community Relations Service (CRS) even helped organize a meeting between Sanford, Fla., public officials and the local NAACP.  The result was the resignation of police chief Bill Lee over his handling of the Martin case.

Holder Fiscal Year 2011 Travel Cost More Than $1.45 Million.  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder took 62 out-of-town trips in fiscal year 2011 at a cost of at least $1.45 million, according to a set of disclosures sent to Bloomberg News.  Holder's travel during the period included an April 2011 trip to Las Vegas, marked business and personal, that cost $46,358.  Nine other trips, including visits to Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, and Miami, were labeled "personal," and cost a combined $169,502.  He took an $83,002 flight to Krakow, Poland, to attend the G-6 summit.

Appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the special prosecution of George Zimmerman.  This is outrageous.  A lynch mob sanctioned by the President of the United States.  A lynch mob stoked by the Department of Justice.

Impeach Attorney General Holder — for Justice's Sake.  With the news this week that Attorney General Holder's Department of Justice had used tax-paid employees of his department to foment the demonstrations which forced the prosecution of George Zimmerman, it is apparent that something is very seriously wrong.

Blackness Trumps Fairness.  While George Zimmerman has been acquitted, his troubles are hardly behind him.  It's not just that no small number of thugs want his head on a platter, but that the baddest of them all is the highest law-enforcement official in the land.  The question of whether Eric Holder's Department of Justice will file a civil-rights-violation suit against Zimmerman is especially salient now.

Holder Revives Bogus Civil Rights Investigation Against Zimmerman.  The Obama Justice Department is reviving its bogus civil rights investigation of George Zimmerman, despite a Florida jury's acquittal of Zimmerman yesterday [7/13/2013] on all charges.  The trial demonstrated a dearth of evidence that he intended to kill Trayvon Martin, much less that he killed him with an intent to deny his civil rights.

America's Third World System of Criminal Justice.  Start with Obama's tampering with the jury pool, in this case all of America. Trayvon Martin, he said, looked like the son he might have had. [...] Then there was the DoJ subsidy to protesters in the area of the trial.  Just in case, maybe, the jurors hadn't gotten with the program.  The dollars in question were small.  The principle in question wasn't.  Justice is supposed to be blind, and maybe it is in other countries.  Only not in Eric Holder's DoJ.

Now Obama and Holder are stuck.  With racialist political motives, President Obama and Attorney General Holder attempted to railroad George Zimmerman.  When President Obama said that if he had a son, the child would look like Trayvon Martin, the President was really saying that Zimmerman has murdered my son, and African Americans must avenge this evil deed.  (Not to mention that the President was intentionally poisoning the jury pool.)  Attorney General Holder did his part by, among other things, dispatching Justice Department employees to Sanford, Florida to stoke the fires of revenge.

Justice Department faces evidence hurdles in proving Zimmerman bias after verdict.  The Justice Department was running into immediate hurdles Monday [7/15/2013] in its investigation of possible civil rights violations by George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin — namely, that after examining the case for more than a year, the evidence has not changed.

Now Obama and Holder are stuck.  African-American leaders such as Roslyn M. Brock, Chair of the NAACP, have begun to urge the prosecution of Zimmerman under the [federal hate crime] statute.  But Obama and Holder are caught on the horns of a dilemma.  If they prosecute Zimmerman, the trial will make crystal clear that he is a racially tolerant man while Trayvon Martin was a bigot.  This is not a good outcome for their racialist politics.

FBI's Zimmerman Probe Shows Holder's Got No Case.  Mob Justice:  Attorney General Eric Holder confirms he'll do the bidding of racial arsonists and look into bringing criminal civil-rights charges against George Zimmerman.  Good luck with that.  The state of Florida just spent more than $1 million prosecuting Zimmerman for murder in the Trayvon Martin shooting and couldn't find a shred of evidence he was animated by racial hatred.  A jury summarily dismissed the trumped-up charges.

What Federal Law Has Zimmerman Violated?  Why should the federal government intervene in murder, the prosecution of which is the job of the states?  The main civil-rights laws are targeted at defendants who deprive others of their federal rights acting under "color of law" — i.e., acting on behalf of the state.  That is the whole point of the Reconstruction Amendments, which the civil-rights laws implement:  to prevent states from depriving their residents of their constitutional rights.

Justice Department in hot seat after declining to prosecute alleged IRS abuse.  A top Republican senator is pressing Attorney General Eric Holder for answers following allegations by a government watchdog that the IRS may have improperly accessed the tax records of a political donor or candidate — but the Justice Department declined to prosecute the case.  Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, questioned whether that DOJ decision was "politically motivated."

What about the words 'not guilty' does Obama's Department of Justice not understand?  Ever since George Zimmerman was found not guilty of Trayvon Martin's murder, the US Department of Justice has been pursuing other ways of getting him behind bars.  It wants to nail him for breaking federal race-relation laws — for which it would have to prove that Zimmerman was motivated by racism and that it was his civil rights that he was gunning for when he shot him dead.  The DOJ's argument has already hit some logic hurdles.  After examining the case for a year, the evidence hasn't changed and proof of Zimmerman's racial bias remains absent.

Using stereotyping, Eric Holder calls for the end of stereotyping.  As [Eric] Holder desired, much of the day's media coverage focused on his telepromptered assault on so-called "stand-your-ground laws."  More than half the states permit citizens to use deadly force when threatened without fleeing, if they are in a place where they have a right to be, such as their home.  And about 15 of those states, including Florida, extend that right beyond the home.  Never mind that the law was never mentioned during the trial.  No one asked.  But Holder is against it.

The Nifonging of George Zimmerman.  Eric Holder is the same individual who was found in contempt of Congress for refusing to provide evidence related to the more than two thousand gun felonies that his Justice Department orchestrated in Operation Fast and Furious.  Now it is credibly alleged that the Justice Department misappropriated federal money to orchestrate public demonstrations and quasi-lynch mobs against [George] Zimmerman.

DOJ solicits email tips in Zimmerman civil rights probe.  The U.S. Department of Justice on Monday afternoon [7/15/2013] appealed to civil rights groups and community leaders, nationally and in Sanford, for help investigating whether a federal criminal case might be brought against George Zimmerman for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, one advocate said.  The DOJ has also set up a public email address to take in tips on its civil rights investigation.

DOJ Asks Civil Rights Groups, General Public for 'Tips' on Zimmerman.  On Monday afternoon [7/15/2013], the US Department of Justice appealed to civil rights groups and the general public across the country for "tips" on George Zimmerman in their pursuit of potential federal civil rights charges against the just-acquitted defendant in the Trayvon Martin killing.  The DOJ actually went so far as to set up an e-mail address to allow such tips.

DOJ trolling for email tips in Zimmerman probe.  More than a year after an FBI report indicated there was no evidence of racial bias in George Zimmerman's history, the Justice Department is trolling for email tips on the former neighborhood watch volunteer as it weighs a possible federal civil rights case against him.  Amid pressure from the NAACP and several Democratic lawmakers to pursue Zimmerman, the department has set up a public email address asking for any tips or information regarding the case.

While Eric Holder Plays Racial Politics, Innocent Children Perish in Chicago!  Yes, this is the same Eric Holder who was party to the shipment of guns to Mexico in the Fast and Furious scandal, which cost hundreds of Mexicans and Americans their lives.  And this is the same scoundrel who is still in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over documents related to that awful debacle.  That Eric Holder has now audaciously appointed himself the great protector of the young and innocent [...]

4 Reasons to Reject Federal Charges Against George Zimmerman.  Although Obama wants us to respect the jury's verdict, that does not necessarily mean he will.  His Justice Department is mulling the possibility of prosecuting Zimmerman again, most likely based on the federal hate crime statute.  That would be wrong for at least four reasons.

Workers in Washington apparently must be paid a living wage, unless they are paid nothing.
Justice Department looking to employ experienced attorneys — for free.  The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice is looking to hire experienced, full-time, bar-certified lawyers.  The catch:  These attorneys will not be paid.

The Obama Administration's Race-Baiting Campaign.  The first thing to remember is that, with the Obama administration, there are no coincidences.  The attorney general of the United States is engaged in a shocking extrajudicial publicity campaign.  Eric Holder is prosecuting George Zimmerman in the court of public opinion because he knows he wouldn't have a prayer of convicting him in a court of law.

Lying in the Age of Obama.  The attorney general of the United States lied recently to Congress.  He said he knew of no citizen's communications that his department had monitored.  Lie!  In fact, Holder knew that his subordinates were targeting reporters.  He also did not tell the truth about the New Black Panthers case.  He had sworn that there was no political decision to drop the case.  Not true; the decision came from the top.  He again lied about the time frame in which he first learned of the Fast and Furious case.

Eric Holder steals George Zimmerman's gun.  Attorney General Eric Holder has confiscated George Zimmerman's gun.  Even though Mr. Zimmerman was acquitted by a jury in the death of Trayvon Martin, the Justice Department on Thursday [7/18/2013] ordered the Sanford police to put a hold on the evidence from the trial, which includes the Kel Tek 9mm handgun.  It is not clear what federal law or legal procedure allows Mr. Holder to stop a police chief in Florida from returning a firearm to an innocent man.

Former DOJ official: Civil rights unit sent to mediate anti-Zimmerman protests has history of advocacy.  The Department of Justice civil rights unit sent to Sanford, Florida in 2012 to mediate the anti-George Zimmerman protests has a history of putting racial advocacy ahead of its mandated duties, according to a former head of the unit.  "At CRS headquarters, we (meaning I) regularly had to warn or take corrective action against career employees for acting as advocates instead of mediators," Ondray Harris, the former director of the DOJ's Community Relations Service (CRS), told The Daily Caller.  CRS was the unit deployed to Sanford in 2012 to oversee anti-Zimmerman protests.

Let's Shed Some Light on Eric Holder's Blatant Disregard for the Rule of Law.  Yesterday [7/24/2013] during a speech on the House floor, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar took a moment to remind everyone of Attorney General Eric Holder's lawless record in the Department of Justice.  Gosar has been leading a charge of no confidence against Holder for years and re-introduced his Resolution of No Confidence earlier this year.  The Resolution calls for Holder's immediate resignation and has 137 co-sponsors in the House.  Holder is still in criminal and civil contempt of Congress.

Justice Dept. to press Texas on voting rights, despite ruling by Supreme Court.  The Obama administration said Thursday that it will ask a federal court to require that Texas receive federal approval before it makes changes to its voting laws, opening up another battle front in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling last month that struck down a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Race Relations are Much Worse Thanks To Obama And Holder.  Every chance Barack Obama and Eric Holder get, they seem to pick at the nation's healing racial wounds.  Taking sides against a jury's decision, the Great Uniter declared that "Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," and later called for a national "conversation" on race — code for "endless lectures" by the left.  Holder, meanwhile, this week defied a recent Supreme Court ruling by launching an attack on heavily Republican Texas' voter-ID laws.  Yet the undeniable Black Panther voter intimidation in Philadelphia gets shrugged off by his Department of Justice.

Holder Declares War on Texas, Ignores Supreme Court Ruling.  Attorney General Eric Holder has launched a war against Texas, and in doing so is defying the Supreme Court of the United States.  The imminent judicial beat-down of Holder highlights that this case is not about the rule of law and instead abuses the federal courts for political purposes to rile up the far left and demonize Republicans.

DOJ ripped for making transgender restroom use new front in civil rights battle.  The U.S. Department of Justice's latest cause — fighting for a transgendered California ninth-grader's right to use the boy's room at school — has conservative groups wondering just how far Washington will go in the name of civil rights.  The student was born a girl but "has identified as a boy from a young age," according to the Department of Justice, which reached a settlement with the public school district in Arcadia, an affluent LA suburb.  Under the deal, the district must not only change the student's restroom privileges and make similar accommodations on overnight trips.  It also must institute a host of measures to ensure transgender students are treated as whatever gender they consider themselves to be.

More Voting-Rights Challenges from Holder.  The Washington Post reports that Eric Holder plans to file voting-rights challenges not only against Texas, which the DOJ did last week, but against a number of other states, too.  These challenges are part of a crusade to, as Holder says, "use every tool" at the Obama administration's disposal to continue federal oversight of the states in this area, despite the Supreme Court's decision last month in Shelby County v. Holder.

The Three Amigos of Racial Discord.  On Monday [7/29/2013], MSNBC host Rev. Al Sharpton and other "civil rights" leaders met with President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.  They were purportedly discussing voting rights, but, in reality, they were discussing how to perpetuate voter fraud.

House Panel: Yes, Eric Holder Gave Deceptive Testimony While Under Oath.  These "phony" scandals keep rudely refusing to go away.  New findings from the House Judiciary Committee appear to stop short of accusing the Attorney General of bona fide perjury, but make clear that they view his testimony as grossly misleading.

House Judiciary chairman calls Holder's testimony 'deceptive and misleading'.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) slammed Attorney General Eric Holder after an investigation by Goodlatte's committee reported discrepancies between Holder's congressional testimony and decision to approve a search warrant for emails from Fox News Correspondent James Rosen.

Congressman wants Holder resignation.  Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar escalated his criticism of Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday [8/1/2013], first blasting Holder in a speech on the House floor then authoring a "dear colleague" letter asking his congressional brethren to join him in a resolution of no confidence and demanding that the country's highest ranking law enforcement official step down immediately.

Seven More Reasons to Impeach Eric Holder.  Power is never vested in just one man.  Even the powers of the man in the Oval Office depend on internal checks and balances.  A president alone cannot violate the law.  His cabinet has to aid him in that task.  The man who stands at Obama's side, the man who aids and abets his lawbreaking more than any other, is Attorney General Eric Holder.  Holder is the man who is truly accountable for Obama's lawlessness because it is his responsibility to hold Obama accountable.  Instead Holder has descended into entirely new areas of lawnessness.

Documents: Attorney General Eric Holder billed taxpayers for more than $4 MILLION in travel in less than 4 years.  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's travel expenses exceeded $4 million for 213 separate trips during President Obama's first term in office, according to documents obtained through the Freedom Of Information Act.  The expenses, incurred between March 2009 and August 2012, were all borne by taxpayers — including those covering several personal trips.

Holder travel tab: $4.2m total, $697,525 personal, including $95,184 to Martha's Vineyard.  The records from Justice and provided to [the Washington Examiner] show that Holder, who is required to travel on government aircraft because of security, submitted bills of $16,452.50 to speak at Al Sharpton's National Action Network on New York in April 2011, $38,108.18 in expenses to address the pro-immigration reform group LULAC in June 2012, and $38,108.18 to speak to another pro-immigration group, La Raza, in Las Vegas in July 2012.

Holder Does End-Run Around Congress on Federal Drug Laws.  Attorney General Eric Holder has just announced an end-run around Congress and given the far left one of its priority action-items, announcing he will not prosecute drug crimes unconnected to gangs or violence.  Ironically, he invoked the conservative principle of federalism to do it.

Holder's mortgage fraud whopper.  Bloomberg News provides the latest evidence that the Obama Administration cannot be trusted to report on itself honestly.

Crime statistics are sure to improve!
Can Obama write his own laws?  On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder, a liberal in a hurry, ordered all U.S. attorneys to simply stop charging nonviolent, non-gang-related drug defendants with crimes that, while fitting the offense, carry mandatory sentences.  Find some lesser, non-triggering charge.  How might you do that?  Withhold evidence — for example, the amount of dope involved.  In other words, evade the law, by deceiving the court if necessary.

Department of Justice Sues Texas Over Voter ID Law.  The Obama administration will sue Texas to block its voter ID law, the Justice Department said on Thursday [8/22/2013].  The lawsuit will challenge the law under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color or language.

Will Eric Holder ever learn to be careful what he asks for?  Eric Holder, perhaps the worst, most corrupt attorney general in history, famously demanded Americans stop being cowardly and have a conversation about race.  Well, in the aftermath of the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Christopher Lane, and now World War II hero Delbert Belton, I don't think he likes the frankness he is starting to get from whites and other nonblacks.

Justice Dept. tries to stop La. school vouchers.  The U.S. Justice Department is trying to stop the state from distributing school vouchers in any district that remains under a desegregation court order.

MLK's Dream Deferred.  The irony isn't merely rich.  It's tragic.  As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech this week, the Obama Justice Department is suing the state of Louisiana to stop it from distributing school vouchers to kids seeking to escape failing schools.

Meet the Radical Lawyers Suing Bobby Jindal to Block School Choice.  Personnel is policy, and the Obama administration knows it.  That's why they hired swarms of committed leftist lawyers to populate the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.  Bobby Jindal and school choice advocates are finding out the hard way how it works.

Holder vs. Martin Luther King Jr..  Give Eric Holder credit for cognitive racial dissonance.  On nearly the same day the Attorney General spoke in Washington to honor the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech, his Justice Department sued to block the educational dreams of minority children in Louisiana.

Obama, Holder Stand In Louisiana Schoolhouse Door.  The Justice Department has asked a federal court to stop 34 school districts in Louisiana from handing out private-school vouchers so kids can escape failing public schools, just like the president's daughters.

Bobby Jindal: Obama's DOJ using civil rights law against black children.  President Obama spoke about the fulfilling the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who hoped every American child receive a good education, but his Justice Department is using a civil rights law to shut down a school choice program that allows black children to escape failing schools.

Justice Department bids to trap poor, black children in ineffective schools.  Nine of 10 Louisiana children who receive vouchers to attend private schools are black.  All are poor and, if not for the state assistance, would be consigned to low-performing or failing schools with little chance of learning the skills they will need to succeed as adults.  So it's bewildering, if not downright perverse, for the Obama administration to use the banner of civil rights to bring a misguided suit that would block these disadvantaged students from getting the better educational opportunities they are due.

The Holder-Jindal Collision.  Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal found out late on Friday, August 23.  Attorney General Eric Holder was suing to block the state's school voucher program, which aims to give low-income kids in terrible schools the opportunity to attend better public schools and even private schools.  The Justice Department claims the two-year-old program could interfere with federal desegregation orders in several Louisiana parishes, holdovers from the Civil Rights era.

Obama's cruel fight against school choice.  The Justice Department has challenged my state in court for having the temerity to start a scholarship program that frees low-income minority children from failing schools.  In other words, Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder would rip children out of their schools and handcuff them to the failing schools they previously attended.  And, in the ultimate irony, they are using desegregation orders set up to prevent discrimination against minority children to try to do it.

Eric Holder, IRS officials coached tax-exempt black ministers on how to engage in political activity.  Attorney General Eric Holder and IRS officials advised black ministers on how to engage in political activity during the 2012 election without violating their tax-exempt status.  Holder, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, and Peter Lorenzetti, a senior official in the scandal-plagued agency's exempt organizations division, participated in a May 2012 training session for black ministers from the Conference of National Black Churches at the U.S. Capitol hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC).  Holder spoke at the event.

DOJ Asks 'Forgiveness' for Failing to Consult With Agencies Opposed to Pot Legalization.  Deputy Attorney General James Cole told Congress this week that although the Justice Department did consult with federal, state and local agencies on marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington State, "we should have reached out to them one more time before we made the decision" not to challenge those state laws.

Holder, IRS officials spoke at political training session for black ministers that detailed 'right-wing conspiracy'.  The meeting was attended by Attorney General Eric Holder, then-IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman, and IRS official Peter Lorenzetti, all of whom spoke at the event.  The meeting, which was held during the presidential campaign and at a time when the IRS was targeting conservative non-profits for abusive audits, aimed to coach black ministers in how to engage in political activity without violating the law.

DOJ spox to USA Today: 'I will save what I have for another outlet'.  A Department of Justice spokesperson who initially offered to provide sources to USA Today has reversed that decision on the grounds that the reporter was "biased" and would not forego his story even if the sources undercut its premise. [...] The article, which USA Today is expected to publish on Thursday afternoon [9/19/2013], concerns the fact that the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) did not launch an investigation into government lawyers who were believed to have misrepresented the scope of the government's electronic surveillance efforts.

FBI Instructed to Break Rules Banning Interactions With Terrorist Co-Conspirator CAIR.  CAIR was determined to be related to the web of terrorist financing during the Holy Land Foundation trials in Dallas, a trial which resulted in guilty verdicts.  Afterwards, the FBI issued a blanket policy:  no cooperation in the field with CAIR.  But the FBI's Office of Public Affairs issued instructions to ignore the policy.  Why are DOJ press flunkies in Washington, D.C. issuing directives to FBI field offices about how to deal with CAIR?  The answer to this question lies at the heart of the scandal, demonstrating that the politicized lawlessness of the Eric Holder Justice Department now is affecting the FBI.

Justice Department vs. Louisiana Voucher Kids.  School-choice programs have faced no shortage of legal challenges en route to their adoption in 18 states and the District of Columbia.  But none of the challenges is so perverse or perplexing as the Justice Department's motion last month to wield desegregation decrees to halt Louisiana's voucher program.

Fresh DOJ loss in 'Fast and Furious' docs fight.  A federal judge has rejected Attorney General Eric Holder's attempt to keep the courts from wading into the "Fast and Furious" documents dispute that led to him being held in contempt by the House last year.  In a ruling Monday night [9/30/2013], U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson turned down the Justice Department's request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege to prevent some records about the administration's response to the "Operation Fast and Furious" gunrunning scandal from being turned over to Congress.

Federal judge to DOJ: No, you may not dismiss this Fast & Furious case just because you feel like it.  The last time we checked in on Operation Fast and Furious, the bloody and not-"botched" gunrunning scandal in which the ATF pressed American gun dealers into funneling at least 2,000 weapons to cartels across the Mexican border with no serious efforts to trace them, more of the trafficked weapons were still showing up at crime scenes as recently as this past August.

Court Says Holder Can't Stop Fast And Furious Truth Search.  The most transparent administration in history suffered a defeat Monday, when U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson turned down the Justice Department's request to dismiss a lawsuit seeking "Fast and Furious" documents hidden by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department after President Obama invoked executive privilege.  The lawsuit was brought by Rep. Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee after the president asserted executive privilege to prevent records about the administration's response to the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun-running scandal from being turned over to Congress.

Judge delivers blow to Eric Holder's Fast and Furious scandal.  A federal judge delivered a blow to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder' Monday night [9/30/2013] when she denied the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought against it in the Fast and Furious investigation.

Justice Department to sue North Carolina over voter law.  The Justice Department announced Monday [9/30/2013] that it is suing the state of North Carolina for alleged racial discrimination over tough new voter ID rules.  The suit claims that the North Carolina statute violated Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and would seek to have the state subject to federal pre-clearance before making "future voting-related changes."  The suit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nashville, Tenn.  Attorney General Eric Holder said "by restricting access and ease of voter participation, this new law would shrink, rather than expand, access" to voting.

Justice Dept. to sue North Carolina over GOP-backed voting rules.  The Justice Department filed suit Monday to block North Carolina's new voter-ID law, with Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. accusing state Republicans of engaging in a deliberate effort to suppress black voter turnout. [...] "This concern about vote fraud is something that is made up in order to justify these restrictive and I think, at a minimum, partisan actions," Mr. Holder said in a news conference at the Justice Department.

Will Fast And Furious Justice Finally Befall Eric Holder?  Serial abuses of justice by America's top law enforcement official should be enough to make just about any tinhorn banana republic dictator blush.  Yet regarding any embarrassment evidenced by the leader of the free world... not so much.  Despite the fact that our attorney general has been indicted for contempt of Congress on both felony and civil charges, has repeatedly lied under oath, and has routinely turned a blind eye to laws that he is duty-bound to enforce, Mr. Holder continues to serve at the behest of his presidential mentor.  At least he has so far.

Black Skin Privilege.  Under the banner of "leveling the playing field," the rules of the game have been systematically rigged — against whites and in favor of blacks.  Speaking for the dominant culture in our universities, and for the U.S. Supreme Court's majority, Columbia University law professor Patricia Williams, who is black, explains:  "If the modern white man, innocently or not, is the inheritor of another's due, then it must be returned."  (Innocent or not!)  Attorney General Eric Holder is of a similar mind.

Have Barack Obama and Eric Holder Caused an Increase in Mass Murder?  Attorney General Eric Holder said today [10/21/2013], in a speech to a convention of police chiefs, that mass shooting incidents have tripled in the last few years. [...] Normally that might be considered an admission against interest, inasmuch as he is the nation's chief law enforcement officer.  But of course Holder didn't take any responsibility for the trend he described.  As far as I can tell, Democrats are interested in crime only when it serves as an excuse for gun control; never as a reason to consider more effective law enforcement measures, or to step up prosecution and punishment of criminals.

Sen. David Vitter Calls on DOJ to Investigate Armed EPA Raid in Alaska.  Vitter, in a letter sent Tuesday [10/22/2013] to Attorney General Eric Holder, requested the Justice Department investigate the EPA raid, which occurred at a gold mine in Chicken, Alaska earlier this year as part of an investigation into violations of the Clean Water Act.  "The EPA's use of unnecessary armed intimidation tactics against Alaska miners this summer was extreme, especially to investigate potential Clean Water Act violations from what are essentially a handful of small business owners," said Vitter, the ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

The Editor says...
Senator Vitter might as well put his complaints in a letter to Santa Claus.  Eric Holder isn't going to investigate — let alone obstruct — any action by the EPA or any other federal agency.

DOJ Tries to Stop Parents from Defending Louisiana School Voucher Program.  The Justice Department is attempting to block parents from defending the Louisiana school voucher program in court, according to a brief filed Tuesday [10/22/2013].  Four families filed last month to intervene in the DOJ's lawsuit against the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which grants vouchers to students so they can flee failing schools rated C, D, or F.

Mendacity, thy name is Eric Holder.  Mendacity should never be associated with the U.S. Department of Justice, but Attorney General Eric Holder's minions are giving the nation a textbook example of that characteristic.  In a motion filed earlier this year in federal court, Justice Department lawyers asked the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana to enjoin state officials from "awarding any school vouchers to students attending school in schools operating under federal desegregation orders."  Why?  Because enabling such students to flee their typically failing institutions to other schools allegedly "impedes desegregation."

Congressman: We're Going to Try to Impeach Eric Holder over Fast & Furious.  Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) told local supporters at a town hall in his northern Florida district Tuesday night [11/5/2013] that he and other Republicans are currently drafting a resolution seeking impeachment for Attorney General Eric Holder.  "It's to get him out of office — impeachment," Yoho said of the forthcoming resolution, according to the Ocala Star-Banner newspaper, adding, "it will probably be when we get back in (Washington).  It will be before the end of the year.  This will go to the speaker and the speaker will decide if it comes up or not."

The Editor says...
Oh, I see.  The Speaker of the House.  Well, it didn't take long to get to the dead end on that path.

Lawmakers Push to Impeach Disgraced A.G. Eric Holder.  After having already been held in criminal contempt of Congress for an ongoing cover-up of the Obama administration's deadly "Fast and Furious" gun-running program, disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder is facing a fresh challenge:  an effort by some GOP lawmakers to impeach him before the end of the year.  According to media reports, the bid to force Holder out of power, if successful, would represent the second impeachment of a cabinet member in American history.  Meanwhile, the movement to impeach Obama himself is growing stronger by the day as well — both in Congress and among everyday Americans.

Rep. Olson Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against Eric Holder.  Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) has introduced an Articles of Impeachment resolution against Attorney General Eric Holder for his role in Operation Fast and Furious and other scandals of President Barack Obama's administration.  Seven congressman have signed onto the resolution thus far in addition to Olson.  They are Reps. Larry Bucshon (R-IN), Blake Farenthold (R-TX), Phil Roe (R-TN), Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), Roger Williams (R-TX), Ted Yoho (R-FL), and Randy Weber (R-TX).

AG Holder asks for appeal in Fast and Furious case holding him in contempt.  Attorney General Eric Holder wants to appeal a recent judge's ruling that allows the House to continue with its contempt case, related to Holder's refusal to turn over documents concerning the Justice Department's failed Operation Fast and Furious gun-tracking program.  Holder made the request Friday night [11/15/2013] to U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson, asking that the Justice Department be allowed to put the case in front of a federal appeals court before Jackson makes any final decisions.

Holder: I'll stay Attorney General 'well into 2014'.  Attorney General Eric Holder said in an interview published Friday that he plans to stay in his Cabinet post 'well into' next year, despite many Republican lawmakers having called for his resignation.  "I've made the determination — I'm not sure I've ever said this publicly — but I'm going to certainly stay in this job well into 2014," Holder told the Washington Post Thursday [11/14/2013] as he returned to Washington from a trip to Illinois.

The DOJ's Radical Civil Rights Division.  President Obama's last head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division was Thomas Perez, a highly controversial radical.  Perez is now the secretary of the Department of Labor.  (He was confirmed in July this year by a vote of only 54 to 46.)  When looking to replace Perez at the DOJ, President Obama could have chosen to improve the Civil Rights Division — after all, the Justice Department's own inspector general concluded in a report earlier this year that the division was guilty of "deep ideological polarization" and a "disappointing lack of professionalism."

Judge won't allow Holder appeal now in contempt case.  A federal judge [11/18/2013] has refused Attorney General Eric Holder's request that he be allowed to proceed now with an appeal in a case where the House of Representatives is seeking to enforce subpoenas for documents related to the controversial Operation Fast and Furious gun investigation.

Why Obama can't wave away this scandal.  Attorney General Eric Holder has survived three scandals that would have felled a Republican. His department attempted to soft-pedal its responsibility for the so-called "gunwalking" policy called Fast and Furious — which led to the murders of US border agents by Mexican drug-cartel members with guns effectively provided to the killers by the Justice Department.  He approved the secret surveillance of Fox News Channel reporter James Rosen in a leak investigation on the outrageous grounds that Rosen was a possible "co-conspirator" in an act of espionage.  And he approved similar tactics against reporters at the Associated Press in another leak investigation.  Holder's still there.  Obama defends him.  When was the last time you heard Rosen's name mentioned, or the AP story referenced, or Fast and Furious come up?

Supreme Court Orders DOJ to Respond to German Homeschoolers' Petition.  The Supreme Court has ordered Attorney General Eric Holder to respond to the Home School Legal Defense Association's (HSLDA) petition on behalf of the Romeike family, a German family who sought legal asylum in the United States to escape persecution because homeschooling is largely prohibited in their home country.  In a press release, James Mason, HSLDA's director of litigation, said that the order is a hopeful sign that the High Court will hear the case.

Eric Holder's kickbacks for community organizers.  The government has quite the tidy little deal going in terms of getting money out of large banking interests lately.  The latest example was the $13B dollar "settlement" reached with JP Morgan, which certainly must have taught them a thing or two.  But some observers have been digging into the details of the deal and finding that it might be even sweeter for certain progressive interest groups than anyone had previously imagined.

The DOJ's Curious Foray into the 'Knockout Game' Fray.  Twenty-seven-year-old Conrad Barrett of Katy, Texas, has been charged with a hate crime by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) for allegedly targeting a 79-year-old black man as his "knockout game" victim. [...] There is no question that the assault attributed to Barrett was heinous and likely motivated by racial animus, but the Washington Times addresses the other issue that is undoubtedly on the minds of many Americans.  "The 'game' has spawned a fierce debate since many of the reported victims have been white and their assailants have been black, but hate crimes charges have been all but non-existent," the Post [sic] states.

Obama's DOJ civil rights nominee represented cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.  President Barack Obama's nominee to head the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division led the group that represents convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.  Debo Adegbile, who awaits Senate confirmation to become assistant attorney general for civil rights in Eric Holder's DOJ, would bring a radical record on racial issues to his new job, which is responsible for enforcing federal discrimination statutes.

Obama Nominates Racist Supporter of Cop-Killer to Head DOJ Civil Rights.  Obama's nominee process involves finding the worst person on earth for that job or any job.  It's a process that never fails.  In this case, he came up with Debo Adegbilem cop-killer Mumia Abu Jamal's lawyer and a supporter of discriminating against white students for reasons of race.

Judicial Watch's Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians of 2013.  Attorney General Eric Holder is chosen for lying about whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act for publishing classified material.  Holder stated, "In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material — this is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy."  However, NBC news reported Holder approved a search warrant for the email account and phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen.  Holder is also noted for "bludgeoning states over taking steps to prevent voter fraud...

Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington's "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for 2013.  [Scroll down]  In May 2013, [Eric] Holder may well have committed perjury when he was involved in a back-and-forth with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) about whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act for publishing classified material.  In response to Johnson's interrogatories Holder made the following statement:  "In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material — this is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy."  Since Holder made that statement, NBC news reported that the attorney general had approved a search warrant for the email account and phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen.  As Hotair.com said at the time:  "There is no other way to view this except as a lie.  Even if Holder wasn't under oath, that would constitute a felony punishable by up to five years in prison.  It certainly should produce at least a resignation, and almost assuredly would require the appointment of a special prosecutor ...."

Gov't Offers New Approach to Classroom Discipline.  Although black students made up 15 percent of students in the data collection, they made up more than a third of students suspended once, 44 percent of those suspended more than once and more than a third of students expelled.

The Editor says...
That's a meaningless series of statistics.  Schools should practice equal opportunity expulsion:  Troublemakers should be kicked out, regardless of who they are.

Holder: School discipline racially biased, too harsh.  Attorney General Eric Holder called upon the nation's school districts Wednesday to rethink "zero tolerance" disciplinary policies that he said disproportionately punish minorities and push too many students into the justice system.  "Alarming numbers of young people are suspended, expelled or even arrested for relatively minor transgressions like school uniform violations, schoolyard fights or showing 'disrespect' by laughing in class," Holder said during a speech in Baltimore.

Putting the Chill on Discipline.  Holder's guidelines aim at halting "targeting minorities," but, practically, will accomplish defining deviancy downward yet again in urban minority-dominated schools — that's mostly black and Hispanic kids from broken families and single-parent households.  The A.G.'s guidelines are another tacit admission that there are enormous dysfunctions in poorer minority communities that liberal prescriptions can't arrest and change.  In place of reality-based solutions and constructive engagement, Holder — on behalf of the president — desires to excuse liberal urban failures by rationalizing and dismissing near- or outright criminal behavior on the part of minority students.

3 Reasons Why the Radical Anti-Discipline Policies at DOJ Will Outlast the Obama Era.  Today the Drudge Report covers the Justice Department's racialist attack on school discipline policies.  The DOJ policy is based on the idea that school discipline policies are racially discriminatory because black students comprise a greater percentage of students disciplined than their percentage in the general population.  Call it exceeding the bad-behavior quota. [...] We've come to expect this sort of policy from Eric Holder of protecting the lawless and misbehaving.  The New Black Panther voter intimidation case dismissal was mere prologue.

Jindal: DOJ 'More Interested In Skin Color' Than Education.  In November, the Obama Justice Department dropped a lawsuit aimed at stopping a school voucher program in Louisiana.  The Louisiana Scholarship Program is intended to give students in failing public schools a chance to attend better schools, including private ones.  Justice tried to block the program on the basis that it may have violated a 1975 federal desegregation order.

The Holder Effect and the Knockout Game.  Thanks to the internet, the liberal elites who censor the output of the major news organizations can no longer cover up events that fail to depict contemporary life as they wish it to be. [...] For instance, when they are forced to cover this offense, they still will not use the actual name of Polar Bear Hunting because of its all too obvious racial implications.  Unable to ignore it any longer, they play it down — especially the racial aspects of it, because that may put our black president, his black attorney general, and all those black and liberal white lawyers in Holder's civil rights division in a bad light because they aren't investigating what appears to be serial hate crime.

More racial bias from Holder, and a message to white Americans.  So now the US Department of Justice under Eric Holder will use its power to enforce "civil rights protections" in school disciplinary actions.  In fact, the DoJ and DoEd are putting schools on notice that they are prepared to use their authority to investigate the claims of racial disparity in the punishment of students.  And of course the American Civil Liberties union (ACLU) is thrilled with this policy. [...] I taught high school for one year in Deerfield Beach, Fla and in the end, it was such an enjoyable experience breaking up fights daily, that I decided to return to the combat zone of Afghanistan.

Justice Department likely to expand its definition of racial profiling.  The Justice Department is likely to expand the definition of racial profiling to bar federal agents from considering religion, national origin, gender and sexual orientation in their investigations, a person familiar with the issue said Thursday [1/16/2014].

The Editor says...
Homosexuality and gender have no connection to race.

The Obama Administration's Mandated Racism.  The Departments of Education and Justice have teamed up to make the lives of students in tough neighborhoods even tougher.  Framed as a measure to combat discrimination against black and Hispanic children, the guidelines issued by the Obama administration about school discipline will actually encourage racial discrimination, undermine the learning environments of classrooms, and contribute to an unjust race-consciousness in meting out discipline.  Claiming that African-American and Hispanic students are more harshly disciplined than whites for the same infractions, the Obama administration now advises that any disciplinary rule that results in a "disparate impact" on those groups will be challenged by the government.

Holder's terror surrender.  If indeed he follows through on promises made to New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and reported in yesterday's New York Times, Holder should quite simply be impeached.  Now no one supports racial profiling in the conduct of ordinary policing.  Nor do we support the harassment of our Muslim neighbors and friends.  But to ignore the role of radical Islamists as a genuine security threat to this nation is nothing short of insane.

U.S. to adjust rules to let banks handle marijuana money -Holder.  U.S. treasury and law enforcement agencies will soon issue regulations opening banking services to state-sanctioned marijuana businesses even though cannabis remains classified an illegal narcotic under federal law, Attorney General Eric Holder said on Thursday [1/23/2014].

Eric Holder: Voter ID [is] Used to 'Depress the Vote' of People Who Don't Support GOP.  Speaking exclusively to MSNBC host Ari Melber, Attorney General Eric Holder sharply criticized state-level voter identification policies and said that he believes those policies are a "remedy in search of a problem."  He added that, while some may be arguing for voter ID in good faith, he believes that most are advocating for this policy in order to "depress the vote" of those who do not support the "party that is advancing" voter ID measures.  "I think many are using it for partisan advantage," Holder said of voter ID.

Meet Preet — Obama's hatchet man against filmmakers.  Meet Preet Bharara, the U.S. prosecutor who last week indicted anti-Obama filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza on campaign finance charges.  Mr. Bharara is the snapping jaws of Attorney General Eric H. Holder's junkyard attack dog and the velvet fixer of President Obama's thorniest political problems.  Mr. D'Souza very well may be guilty of a few winks and nods that wound up violating limits on campaign contributions he was allowed to make to a friend running a long-shot campaign for the Senate.  But it does seem rather odd to handcuff a guy and set $500,000 bail for a crime that in the past has been pleaded out as a misdemeanor.

Sen. Mike Lee Grills Eric Holder on Executive Orders.  The day after he delivered the official tea party response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) aggressively challenged Attorney General Eric Holder on the constitutional basis for the executive orders Obama announced in his speech.  After questioning Holder about NSA surveillance programs, Lee moved on to discuss the president's renewed efforts to bypass Congress with executive orders.  He asked Holder specifically about the legal basis for the executive order that effectively delayed the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate.

Cruz Grills Holder on IRS Scandal Investigation.  Ted Cruz demonstrated again yesterday [1/29/2014] why he sets conservative hearts aflutter, pointedly questioning Attorney General Eric Holder when he appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday over the IRS's going-nowhere investigation of the IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative nonprofits.

Are Obama's Executive Orders Constitutional? Eric Holder Explains.  Well, he doesn't, actually.  But Senator Mike Lee did a good job of trying to pin down Attorney General Eric Holder as to the constitutional basis of some of President Obama's executive orders, particularly his deferral of the employer mandate under Obamacare.  As he so often does, Holder bobbed and weaved without ever articulating a constitutional rationale.  In my opinion, there is none.

Attorney General Eric Holder can't explain constitutional basis for Obama's executive orders.  Attorney General Eric Holder couldn't explain the constitutional basis for executive orders such as President Obama's delay of the employer mandate because he hasn't read the legal analysis — or at least, hasn't seen it in a long time.  "I'll be honest with you, I have not seen — I don't remember looking at or having seen the analysis in some time, so I'm not sure where along the spectrum that would come," Holder replied when Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, asked him to explain the nature of Obama's constitutional power to delay the mandate.

Hundreds of Career Prosecutors Revolt Against Eric Holder.  Hundreds of career Justice Department lawyers have broken into open revolt against Attorney General Holder over his support of legislation that would drastically cut back on mandatory minimum sentences for drug pushers.  The legislation Holder supports, known as the Durbin-Lee bill, would overturn the current mandatory minimum sentences not only for marijuana violations but for all drug offenses, including major and repeat trafficking in heroin, meth, PCP and other extremely dangerous, and often lethal, drugs.  This was too much for hundreds of federal prosecutors.

Justice Goes After the GOP.  The Justice Department has focused on two prominent Republicans, announcing a corruption indictment of former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell and launching an active and very public criminal investigation into the antics of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration.  In doing so, federal prosecutors have created at least the appearance that they are targeting two men who have been touted as plausible candidates for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016.

Justice bars lawyer from testifying before House panel in IRS probe.  The Justice Department said Thursday it is refusing to let a key lawyer testify to the House oversight committee on the criminal investigation into the IRS, saying that to let her brief Congress could potentially skew its probe.  But oversight committee Republicans said blocking lawyer Barbara Bosserman from testifying only makes the Justice's investigation look more partisan.

FBI Agents revolt against Eric Holder.  First it was the Justice Department's career prosecutors; now it's FBI agents.  The federal employees responsible for fighting crime are simply unable to digest the anti-law enforcement slop being served up by their boss, Attorney General Holder.  The FBI's beef is with the selection of Debo Adegbile as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.  The FBI Agents Association's opposition is based on the way in which Adegbile defended, and led the cheers for, cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Justice Department to give married same-sex couples equal protection.  The Justice Department on Monday [2/10/2014] will instruct all of its employees across the country, for the first time, to give lawful same-sex marriages sweeping equal protection under the law in every program it administers, from courthouse proceedings to prison visits to the compensation of surviving spouses of public safety officers.  In a new policy memo, the department will spell out the rights of same-sex couples, including the right to decline to give testimony that might incriminate their spouses, even if their marriages are not recognized in the state where the couple lives.

Federal government to expand recognition of same-sex marriage.  In a new milestone for gay rights, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. will issue a directive Monday [2/10/2014] expanding government recognition of same-sex marriages to all federal courtrooms and prisons, and some federal benefits programs.  The new policy, which Holder plans to announce Saturday night [2/8/2014] at a gay rights dinner in New York City, means the Justice Department will not object if gay or lesbian partners refuse to testify against their spouses in federal criminal and civil cases, and will push for them to be accorded the same rights in Bankruptcy court as other married couples.

Holder: Repeal laws restricting voting by ex-felons.  Attorney General Eric Holder is calling Tuesday for the repeal of state laws that restrict the voting rights of millions of former prison inmates.  In a speech to the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights at Georgetown University Law Center, Holder said it is "time to fundamentally re-think laws that permanently disenfranchise people who are no longer under federal or state supervision.''

Don't Celebrate Eric Holder's Pending Departure.  Nobody should celebrate the announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder will be leaving the administration this year.  Whoever replaces Holder will be just as radical and ideological. [...] So even after Eric Holder is gone, the Civil Rights Division will be just as racialist and lawless.  The Criminal Division will still refuse to prosecute election gangsters like Melowese Richardson in Ohio who proudly said on camera she voted six times for President Obama in 2012.  It will still refuse to prosecute large banks for criminal conspiracy because they are "too big" to prosecute.

Holder: State Laws That Bar Felons From Voting Are 'Too Unjust to Tolerate'.  Three days after announcing that the U.S. Justice Department will recognize same-sex marriages in all legal matters, even in states that forbid it, Attorney General Eric Holder took a swipe at states that don't allow felons to vote.  "In many states, felony disenfranchisement laws are still on the books.  And the current scope of these policies is not only too significant to ignore — it is also too unjust to tolerate," Holder told a criminal justice forum at Georgetown University Law Center.

DOJ Argues to Court Against Rules to Prevent Foreigners From Voting.  Justice Department lawyer Bradley Heard was in court today trying to stop Kansas from ensuring that only citizens register to vote.  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, relying on a United States Supreme Court opinion of last year, asked the federal Election Assistance Commission to permit him to ensure that only citizens were registering to vote.  The Election Assistance Commission said no, so Kris Kobach went to federal court.  Enter Eric Holder's Justice Department, as usual, opposing election integrity measures.

Holder's Felon Re-Enfranchisement [is] A Ruse To Unlock 2 Mil Dem Votes.  The Obama administration isn't satisfied with locking in votes for Democrats by giving amnesty to illegal immigrants.  Now it's also trying to unlock ex-con's votes through felon re-enfranchisement.

Goodbye, Eric Holder?  Embattled Attorney General Eric Holder told the New Yorker magazine he plans to step down from his post later this year, but a Holder spokesman now denies he made any such commitment.  It's just another confusing day in the increasingly chaotic Obama administration, where, as the president's approval ratings continue to fall, the left hand never quite seems to know what the extreme-left hand is doing.

Washington's Pack of Pretenders.  Certainly Eric Holder's Department of Justice isn't what the attorney general's "about" page says it is, namely "the central agency for enforcement of federal laws."  It is instead the central agency for approving fishing expeditions against news organizations like the AP; harassing states in matters such as the administration of elections which are solely their province; deciding which federal laws it will refuse to defend, i.e., the Defense of Marriage Act; and determining which laws it will ruthlessly reinterpret beyond Congress's and even the Supreme Court's intent.  Holder himself is the only attorney general, and in fact the first sitting cabinet member, ever held in contempt of Congress.  There is documented evidence that he knew of Operation Fast and Furious, [...] in July 2010, five months before Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's murderer used one of those guns to kill him.

Obama Administration Takes Groupthink To Absurd Lengths: School Discipline Rates Must Be "Proportionate".  [I]n January, [the Obama] administration — specifically the Departments of Justice and Education — [sent out] a "guidance" letter that demands a group equality approach to student discipline in America's public schools.  If federal bureaucrats suspect that there's any racial disproportionality in the punishments meted out for misbehavior in school, they will descend on the school's administrators.  Unless those officials can then prove to the government's satisfaction (good luck!) that any differential in rates of punishment by race or ethnic group is "necessary," the school will face the loss of federal funds and costly mandates for diversity training.  Most school officials would just as soon have a root canal as face a plague of lawyers from the Justice and Education Departments.  To avoid that possibility, they will probably take the safe route and adopt a de facto racial quota system for student discipline.

Eric Holder Can't Explain if Constitution Allows Obama's Executive Actions.  Attorney General Eric Holder flubbed a question from Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) that is of vital importance to the rule of law.  While the Constitution allows — and sometimes requires — executive action on many matters, President Barack Obama has asserted executive authority in unprecedented ways.  When Lee asked why one of Obama's orders does not violate the Constitution, Holder — the chief legal officer of the nation — had no answer.

Holder Calls for Scrutiny of Gay Marriage Laws.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday [2/24/2014] injected the Obama administration into the emotional and politicized debate over the future of state same-sex marriage bans, declaring in an interview that state attorneys general are not obligated to defend laws that they believe are discriminatory.  Mr. Holder was careful not to encourage his state counterparts to disavow their own laws, but said that officials who have carefully studied bans on gay marriage could refuse to defend them.

Black Pastors: Impeach Holder.  A coalition of black pastors announced on Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that they are launching a campaign to gather one million signatures on a petition calling for the impeachment of Attorney General Eric Holder for violating his oath of office by trying "to coerce states to fall in line with the same-sex 'marriage' agenda."  "President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have turned their backs on the values the American people hold dear, values particularly cherished in the black community:  values like marriage, which should be strengthened and promoted, rather than weakened and undermined," says a statement by the Coalition of African American Pastors that has been posted online with their impeachment petition.

Eric Holder Asks State Attorneys General To Ignore Law.  We acknowledge the doctrine of prosecutorial discretion, which provides those charged with enforcing our laws in the courts with the authority to decide which particular cases merit pursuing.  However, this power does not extend to deciding which laws passed by the duly elected representatives of the people may be enforced.  Obama and Holder took oaths to see that the laws of the United States are faithfully executed, an oath both have ignored.  Obama, armed with his pen and his phone, has routinely ignored the courts, Congress and the Constitution.  He's governed through regulations and executive orders like some banana republic dictator.  From unconstitutional recess appointments to the unlawful treatment of the statutory requirements of his own signature legislation, Obama operates as if laws are written on an Etch-A-Sketch.  He has adopted the imperial attitude of a despot who believes the ends justify the means.

Eric Holder To State Attorneys General: You Don't Have to Enforce Laws You Disagree With.  Attorney General Eric Holder is taking the lawless attitude of the Obama administration and passing it down to state attorneys general.  Yesterday [2/24/2014] during an interview with The New York Times, Holder said state attorneys general do not have to enforce laws they disagree with, specifically when it comes to the issue of gay marriage.

Lawless Eric Holder advises State A.G.s that they may disregard state laws.  A state attorney general is sworn to uphold and defend the laws of the state the AG serves.  If he/she can't do that, resignation makes sense.  Better yet, stay and uphold the oath of office by defending the law competently in an appeal.

Indefensible.  [Scroll down]  Consider that under longstanding practices an attorney general, the nation's chief law enforcement officer, must carry out even those laws he disagrees with as a matter of policy.  He must also defend laws against constitutional attack so long as there are reasonable, or nonfrivolous, grounds for doing so, a very low bar.  Further, he must see to it that the arguments in behalf of a constitutionally challenged law are advanced vigorously, even if he doesn't agree with those arguments.  In 2009, in litigation over the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage for purposes of federal law as "the legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife," the Justice Department made a workmanlike defense of the statute.  As the litigation proceeded, however, the quality of the department's defense of the statute deteriorated in virtually every respect.

Holder backs reduced sentences for some drug traffickers.  Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday endorsed a proposal that would result in shorter prison sentences for many nonviolent drug traffickers, saying the change would rein in runaway federal prison costs and create a fairer criminal justice system.

The Editor says...
How many non-violent drug traffickers exist?

How 'My Brother's Keeper' Stands to Destroy Already Bad Schools.  Yes, Junior may disrupt the class, terrify his teacher, and otherwise prevent classmates from learning, but everything possible should be done to keep him marching toward graduation.  Diploma in hand, he will — supposedly — join the workforce, eschew criminality, and pay his taxes.  A diploma is now a magic piece of paper.  To this end, the Obama administration (particularly the DOJ) is doing everything possible to lighten the punishment of young men of color.  Obama himself has called for ending the "zero tolerance" policy common in many schools since blacks disproportionately are guilty of infractions.  Similarly, the Justice Department now regularly sues school districts over racial inequalities in suspensions, expulsions, and other disciplinary measures.  It just assumes that all groups commit offenses in equal proportions, so disparities merely reflect racial discrimination.  The attorney general has also called for de-criminalizing low-level nonviolent active drug dealings.

Harry Reid lets Obama, Eric Holder cover up IRS scandal.  Nobody was surprised when Attorney General Eric Holder decided the special prosecutor requested by Sen. Ted Cruz to investigate the IRS scandal isn't needed.  Why?  Because Holder and his boss in the Oval Office refuse to make the same mistake that led to Richard Nixon's undoing in the Watergate scandal. [...] President Obama and Holder have done a masterful job of what Nixon could not — containing an official corruption investigation so that it never gets to the full truth.

DOJ Rejects Ted Cruz's Request for Special Prosecutor in IRS Scandal.  The Holder Department of Justice (DOJ) rejected a request from Texas Senator Ted Cruz to appoint a special prosecutor for the investigation into the IRS scandal in a letter released this week.  The DOJ argued that it saw no apparent conflict of interest with its current investigator Barbara Bosserman — who has contributed thousands of dollars to Obama and other Democrats according to recent Breitbart News reports.

Eric Holder pressed for Lois Lerner interview details by Issa, Jordan.  Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are pressing the Department of Justice for more information about contact government lawyers reportedly made with Lois Lerner, the former IRS employee at the center of the scandal over the IRS's targeting of tea party groups for special scrutiny.  The fresh push from committee chairman Darrell Issa of California and committee member Jim Jordan of Ohio is a signal the GOP will continue to pursue possible contempt charges against Ms. Lerner after she invoked the fifth amendment right against self-incrimination on two occasions when called before the committee.

The Department of Justice Isn't Rushing to Investigate the Administration.  The Department of Justice has been asked by the CIA to investigate Senate staffers, by the Senate to investigate the CIA, and by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to investigate the IRS.  The DOJ has replied "maybe," "maybe," and "no," respectively.  Cruz had asked Justice to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether or not the IRS had illegally targeted conservative groups when it began filtering tax-exempt applicants by key words.  The segregation of Tea Party and other conservative groups has spurred a nearly year-long crusade by conservative politicians and activists searching for a link back to the White House.

DOJ to Supreme Court: Killing Human Embryo in Womb is Not Abortion.  The U.S. Justice Department is telling the Supreme Court that killing a human embryo by preventing the embryo from implanting in his or her mother's uterus is not an "abortion" and, thus, drugs that kill embryos this way are not "abortion-inducing" drugs.  On Tuesday [3/25/2014], the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby.  The crux of the administration's argument in this case is that when Christians form a corporation they give up the right to freely exercise their religion — n.b. live according to their Christian beliefs — in the way they run their business.  It is in the context of this case, that the administration is making its argument that killing an embryo seeking to implant in his or her mother's womb is not an abortion.

No Justice Department Charges Against Ohio Woman Who Voted Six Times for Obama.  Last week Al Sharpton embraced convicted vote fraudster Melowese Richardson at a "voting rights" rally in Cincinnati.  The United States Department of Justice under Eric Holder has done nothing to Melowese Richardson 410 days after she admitted on camera that she committed multiple federal felonies by voting six times for President Obama's reelection.  Federal law makes it a felony to vote more than once for President.  In fact, 42 U.S.C. Section 1973i(e) subjects Richardson to twenty-five years in federal prison for her six votes for Obama.

White Teachers Thought They Were the Solution.  Nobody works harder or spends more money to elect liberals than teachers and their labor unions.  But these same elected officials are now asking the one question that teachers never thought they would hear:  "Why are you so racist?"  The question was posed last week following a Department of Education study about the educational and disciplinary differences between white and black students.  "This critical report shows that racial disparities in school discipline policies are not only well-documented among older students, but actually begin during preschool," said Attorney General Eric Holder.  "This Administration is moving aggressively to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline in order to ensure that all of our young people have equal educational opportunities."

Investigating Justice Department Corruption While Giving Thousands to Obama Campaign.  A key ethics investigator at Eric Holder's Justice Department has contributed $6,100 to Barack Obama's election campaign even though she has participated in high-profile investigations of political misconduct at the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility.  Mary Aubry is an attorney in the Office of Professional Responsibility.  The office has investigated a wide range of politically sensitive matters including the dismissal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, terrorist interrogation techniques, and the "investigation" into the firing of United States attorneys who served at the pleasure of President Bush.

Holder says feds will recognize Michigan gay marriages despite state decision.  Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday [3/28/2014] that the federal government will recognize about 300 same-sex marriages performed in Michigan before a federal appeals court halted them, despite a decision by Michigan's governor not to recognize those unions.  The decision means federal benefits will be extended to those couples — including the ability to file taxes jointly, get Social Security benefits for spouses and request legal immigration status for partners.  "These families will be eligible for all relevant federal benefits on the same terms as other same-sex marriages," Holder said in a statement.

DOJ Rolls Out Transgender Sensitivity Training for Police.  Following several years of "constructive dialog" with the LGBT community, the U.S. Justice Department is now training law enforcement officers on how to better understand and help the "transgender community."  "It's clear that such training is as necessary as it is overdue," Associate Attorney General Tony West told a gathering at the Justice Department on Thursday [3/27/2014], as DOJ's Community Relations Service kicked off its new "transgender law enforcement cultural professionalism training."

Feds support license lawsuit alleging Hawaii discriminates against those with limited English.  The U.S. Department of Justice is supporting a lawsuit alleging Hawaii discriminates against those who struggle with English by making it too difficult to obtain a driver's license.

Melowese Richardson and Eric Holder's selective enforcement of the law.  The incident is just the latest in a long line of decisions made by the AG that strongly suggest he follows a double standard, subscribing to one set of laws for "his people," another for the rest of us.

Convicted Georgia Abortionist Has Interesting Landlord: Wife of the U.S. Attorney General.  Georgia-based abortionist Tyrone Cecil Malloy is headed for prison.  A judge sentenced Malloy to four years in prison and six years probation on two counts of Medicaid fraud.  The judge will hold a restitution hearing at a later date to determine the exact amount of restitution Dr. Malloy will be ordered to pay the Georgia Department of Community Health.  Steven Ertelt of Lifenews.com insists this conviction has a national-media angle:  Malloy's abortion clinic sits in a building owned by Dr. Sharon Malone, the obstetrician and wife of Attorney General Eric Holder, or "The First Lady of Justice," as they call her at Essence magazine.

Congress, watchdogs stonewalled in probes of administration.  The Obama administration has made it increasingly difficult for Congress and inspectors general to uncover government misdeeds and access information in various agencies, according to recent congressional testimony and reports.  On Thursday, Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz testified before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing that Attorney General Eric Holder stonewalled his investigation of the "Operation Fast and Furious" gunwalking scandal.  Mr. Horowitz also said his office has been stymied in other investigations of the Justice Department because of the Obama administration's interpretation of access laws, which essentially requires investigators to ask department heads for permission to investigate them.

Eric Holder defends using Justice Department airplane for 27 personal trips.  Attorney General Eric Holder disputed a Government Accountability Office report on his use of Justice Department airplanes for personal trips, saying it overstated the number of trips he took and failed to recognize that some trips were job-related.  "My staff keeps telling me to take it easy, you know, well, this is one that gets me," Holder told Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing.

'You don't want to go there': Holder tangles with GOP rep at hearing.  The attorney general, one of the longest-serving and most controversial members of the Obama Cabinet, often has tense encounters with Republicans during congressional hearings.  The GOP-led House voted in 2012 to hold him in contempt for failing to provide key information on Operation Fast and Furious.  That case is still being fought in the courts.

Holder: We Want to Explore Gun Tracking Bracelets.  Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday [4/4/2014] that gun tracking bracelets are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to "explore" as part of its gun control efforts.  When discussing gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee that his agency is looking into technological innovations.

Holder claims 'vast amount' of discretion in enforcing federal laws.  Attorney General Eric Holder maintained Tuesday that he has a "vast amount" of discretion in how the Justice Department prosecutes federal law.  Holder's remarks, during testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, came in response to GOP accusations that he is flouting the law with his department's positions on marijuana legalization, criminal sentencing and a contentious provision of the president's signature healthcare law.

Eric Holder: ATF Planning to Use Drones.  Attorney General Eric Holder admitted Tuesday [4/8/2014] that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was in the process of looking at the use of domestic drones.  Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, questioned Holder during a House Judiciary Committee hearing, asking the Attorney General if he believed if the Federal Aviation Administration or Congress should regulate of drone use.

Texas congressman tells Attorney General Eric Holder he belongs 'in jail'.  Republican Rep. Blake Farenthold refused to ask Holder — the hearing's sole witness — any questions, instead slamming him for defying congressional document subpoenas and ignoring a criminal contempt citation the House of Representatives lodged against him nearly two years ago.  "I'm committed to maintaining the constitutional balance of power and the authority that this legislative branch has," Farenthold said, "and I just don't think it's appropriate that Mr. Holder be here."  "If an American citizen had not complied with one of the Justice Department's subpoenas, they would be in jail and not sitting here in front of me testifying."

Eric Holder Proposes Bracelets For Gun Owners, Fingerprint Readers For Guns.  Eric Holder, the Attorney General and unindicted co-conspirator in the death of at least one Border Patrol agent and hundreds of innocent Mexican civilians, appeared before a House Appropriations subcommittee last Friday [4/4/2014] and waxed philosophical on the next step in the administration's war against the Bill of Rights. [...] Other alleged "smart gun" technologies include implanting a GPS transmitter or RFID chip in each firearm.  While this does nothing to enhance the safety of anyone, it does permit law enforcement agencies to know where weapons are located, at least so long as the batteries work, and allows citizens carrying weapons legally to be targeted for harassment by an increasingly arbitrary and brutal law enforcement community.

Boehner blasts Eric Holder for claiming he and Obama are treated differently because they are black.  House Speaker John Boehner blasted Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday for suggesting that Republicans only attack him because he's black.  'There is no issue of race here,' he told a reporter during his weekly press briefing on Capitol Hill.  Holder went off-script Wednesday during a speech to Al Sharpton's National Action Network, slammed Republicans for consistently attacking him and Barack Obama because they are the first African-Americans to hold their jobs.  'What attorney general has ever had to deal with that kind of treatment?' he said, alluding to his status as the only African-American ever to hold that post.

Obama's politicized, lawless executive branch.  Obama's conduct concerning Obamacare alone would be enough to get the impeachment wheels rolling for any other president. His flagrant, deliberate lies regarding almost every aspect of that horrible law and his defiant refusal to accept any accountability for it seem unprecedented to me.  Yes, Bill Clinton looked us in the face and denied his adulterous tryst with Monica Lewinsky, but Obama's lies involve the nation's health care system and affect virtually every American.

Boehner: Race 'no issue' with Holder.  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday said there was "no issue of race" in the way House Republicans have treated President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder. A day after Holder said the two leaders had faced "ugly and divisive adversity" from Congress, Boehner said, "There is no issue of race here" at a Capitol press conference. The attorney general had departed from his prepared remarks before the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network on Wednesday to accuse the House GOP of treating him and Obama differently during the last five years.

Ted Cruz: Congress Should Impeach Eric Holder If He Takes No Action on IRS Targeting Scandal.  On the day the House Oversight Committee held Lois Lerner in contempt, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said Congress should impeach Attorney General Eric Holder if he does not indict those like Lerner for their roles in the IRS's targeting of conservative groups.  In a Thursday appearance on Sean Hannity's radio program, Cruz said Holder should be impeached for "defying Congress and the rule of law."

Man Up, Mr. Holder.  [Scroll down]  As for Holder's Woe Is Me portrayal of his tenure as attorney general, I'd point him (for starters) to Alberto Gonzales and Edwin Meese.  Both were treated viciously by Democrats and (unlike Holder) by many in the press.  While I'm at it, let me add this point:  Mr. Holder is part of an administration notable for its partisanship, divisive rhetoric, ugliness, and polarization.

A Divisive Attorney General.  Attorney General Eric Holder must be suffering from a sort of amnesia.  He is upset at supposed divisiveness and rudeness directed at him when testifying before Congress, and suggests not too subtly that he and President Obama have been accorded inordinately harsh treatment (fill in the blanks why).  Aside from the fact that he seemed to have relished the combat with Representative Gohmert in quite unprofessional tones, he seems to forget what former attorney general Alberto Gonzales once endured both in the liberal media and before Democrats in Congress, not to mention the films, comic routines, novels, and op-eds that focused on the idea of assassinating President George W. Bush, a shameful chapter in our history, which I think Eric Holder was largely mum about at the time.

Rep. Frank Wolf to Withhold Funds from Lawless Eric Holder.  At last, one House Republican is ready to use the Constitutional power of the purse to reign in Attorney General Eric Holder's lawlessness.  Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Virginia), chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee that oversees Eric Holder's Justice Department will utilize the power of the purse to withhold funds from the Justice Department.  Eric Holder has been lobbying the Republican controlled House for a larger budget.  Wolf says he will withhold $1,000,000 for every instance of failure for Eric Holder to respond to Wolf's demands for information.  The Constitution vests the House of Representatives with the power of the purse, an enormously effective tool for reigning in abuses by the executive branch.  If the House does not allocate money to Obama's Justice Department, then Holder cannot function.

Federal judge slams Holder for 'unprecedented instruction' he had 'no authority to establish'.  A federal judge criticized Attorney General Eric Holder for directing prosecutors to pursue shorter prison sentences for drug crimes before new guidelines for sentencing had been approved.  The U.S. Sentencing Commission approved the reduced sentences for federal drug trafficking offenses on Thursday [4/10/2014].  Holder endorsed the move last month, and the Justice Department instructed prosecutors not to object if defendants sought the newly-proposed guidelines during sentencing.  The Justice Department's eagerness to apply more lenient sentencing before it had been approved through the appropriate channels frustrated commission member Judge William H. Pryor Jr., despite his support for the reform.

Cruz: Holder Should Be Impeached For 'Defying Congress And The Rule Of Law' In IRS Scandal.  Sen. Ted Cruz said Attorney General Eric Holder should be impeached if he doesn't indict former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner, who is linked to the agency's targeting of conservative groups.  Speaking on Sean Hannity's radio program Thursday, the Texas Republican labeled Holder the "most partisan attorney general the country has ever had," and added that Holder should be impeached for "defying Congress and the rule of law."  Cruz cited the attorney general's refusal to indict anyone in the months since the inspector general found that conservative and Tea Party groups were singled out for tax purposes.

Holder bypasses U.S. Sentencing Commission in mandatory minimums, angers U.S. Attorneys.  Attorney General Eric Holder has infuriated U.S. Assistant Attorneys by not waiting for the U.S. Sentencing Commission to recommend reductions of sentencing guidelines for drug offenders and pushing them to prosecute based on his new guidelines.  "We do not join with others who regard our federal justice system as 'broken' or in need of major reconstruction," the National Association of U.S. Assistant Attorneys said in a letter to Mr. Holder in January.  "Instead we consider the current federal mandatory minimum sentence framework well constructed and worth preserving."

Actually, Eric Holder, Other AGs Have Faced 'That Kind of Treatment'.  Holder's notion that past attorneys general have escaped widespread criticism, or that criticism directed toward him is solely race-based, overlooks incidents of those before him, including one of his most recent predecessors.  As Mediaite's Noah Rothman points out, Bush-era attorney general Alberto Gonzales faced calls for his impeachment during his time in the office.  In 2007, seven Democratic representatives, including some still in Congress, urged the House Judiciary Committee to investigate fully whether sufficient grounds existed for the House of Representatives to impeach Gonzales for "high crimes and misdemeanors."

Eric Holder strays from planned remarks.  Attorney General Eric Holder strayed from prepared remarks to slam the way he was "treated" by a House committee the day before, calling it evidence of "ugly and divisive" civil rights challenges facing him and President Barack Obama.  Speaking to the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network at its annual convention in New York on Wednesday, Holder talked about the state of civil rights today and brought up a House committee hearing Tuesday that grew contentious, according to video from Mediaite and reports from outlets including Capital New York.

Key Lawyer in DOJ Office Charging Dinesh D'Souza is Obama Campaign Donor.  If you suspect that politics might have played a role in the Justice Department bringing charges against conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza, consider the financial support to Barack Obama from a key DOJ lawyer in the U.S. Attorney's office that filed the charges.  Each U.S. Attorney's office has a lone District Election Officer ("DEO").  The DEO is the singular point person in each U.S. Attorney office for any matter related to an election or campaign finance.  The U.S. Attorney's office in the Southern District of New York is the office which brought the campaign finance charges against D'Souza.

Eric Holder's contempt for the American people.  In what some have referred to as "fireworks" during a House hearing with Attorney General Eric H. Holder, one of the more important revelations was the exposure of exactly how much literal contempt Mr. Holder actually holds for the American people. [...] It's been obvious for quite some time that the Obama administration has no respect for how our system works or for the representatives of the people.  President Obama has himself noted, sadly, that the system the Founders designed restrains him from doing what he would like to.  Yet watching this unfold live on C-SPAN, I was shocked to see how blatant Mr. Holder was in his arrogance and lack of respect.

Democrat Center Folds.  Democrats hope to retain control of the Senate and recapture the House by driving every possible favored bloc to the polls and coffers — union members, single women, blacks, Jews, green energy advocates, and wealthy environmentalists.  What is ignored is that a shred of opposition can take advantage of the far left sweep of the party to exploit serious differences between these voting blocs.  The Black vote is top on their list.  To that end, Attorney General Holder and the president have been playing the race card so much you can tell from the worn back of the card where it is in the deck.

For Attorney General Eric Holder, Justice is for Democrats only.  Now in his sixth year as attorney general, Holder has increasingly tilted the department in an ideological direction.  It's one thing to emphasize President Obama's legal priorities.  It's quite another to decide not to enforce certain federal laws — such as the ban on marijuana — or urge state attorney generals to refuse to defend local laws on same-sex marriage.  Legal changes are achieved through legislation, not through a sudden whim not to enforce them. No other attorney general has acted in this manner.  Holder clearly believes he has the inherent power to politicize his department.

Eric Holder and the Race Card: The issue the media can't resist.  When Eric Holder became attorney general in 2009, he declared that when it comes to discussing race, we have become "a nation of cowards."  Now there's plenty of discussion of race, some of it swirling around Holder himself.  In recent days, conservative critics have accused Holder of playing the race card to deflect criticism — while his liberal allies believe some of that criticism is racially motivated.  It reflects a classic cultural divide in this country and in the media establishment.

Holder: Comments About My Treatment Were About 'Civility,' Not Racism.  Attorney General Eric Holder spoke out last week on his treatment by Congress, with the implication that it may have to do with his race.  However, Holder cleared up to The Huffington Post that his comments were not about race, they were meant to reflect the current level of partisan "incivility" in Washington.  The media buzzed for days about whether Holder played the race card, but the attorney general explained HuffPost last Friday, "I didn't say there was a racial component.  I was very careful not to say that."

Lax Immigration Enforcement Exerts Magnetic Pull.  Ever since 2010, when President Obama first called for "comprehensive immigration reform," meaning amnesty for 11 million illegal immigrants, and then followed up in 2011 with orders to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to use "prosecutorial discretion" in apprehending illegals, a great wave of immigration has built.

The Racist, Discriminating Democratic Party.  Attorney General Eric Holder [...] claimed at a forum on civil rights that the past five years in Washington have been marked by "unprecedented, unwarranted, ugly and divisive adversity."  "If you don't believe that ... you look at the way the attorney general of the United States was treated yesterday by a House committee."  The reality is that Holder was treated appropriately — as he is inept and this administration is constantly lying to the public.  Americans indeed should know no color when inept people govern; they should be challenged and condemned.  It is unfair to assert "racism" when caught lying and cheating as a way to defend yourself.

Sen. Ted Cruz: 'Impeach Eric Holder'.  Congress should impeach Eric Holder, says Senator Ted Cruz. In an interview with Sean Hannity on Thursday, Cruz said that Holder is "defying Congress and "defying the rule of law."  "It is unfortunate that Eric Holder has been the most partisan attorney general this country has ever had," Cruz said, before pointing out that both Obama and Holder previously said they were outraged by the Obama IRS's illegal and unconstitutional targeting of American citizens for their political beliefs, and that Obama himself promised to "get to the bottom of it" and work with Congress "hand-in-hand."  Yet, as Cruz states, no one has been held accountable in the eight months since those statements were made.

GOP writes legislation to deny AG Holder his salary.  A Republican congressman has introduced a bill that would stop government paychecks for officials who have been found in contempt of Congress — a move that seems designed in the short term to go after Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.  Mr. Holder has refused to cooperate with House Republicans' probe into the Fast & Furious gun-walking operation, and the House has voted to find him in contempt.  Mr. Holder is challenging that vote in court.  Rep. Blake Farenthold, a Texas Republican who publicly excoriated Mr. Holder at a hearing last week, introduced the legislation just before Congress went on vacation, and announced it Tuesday [4/15/2014].

The New Liberal Racism.  Last week we witnessed repeated efforts by Democrats to polarize the country along racial lines.  Eric Holder, speaking at Al Sharpton's conference, implied that he and the President are being treated harshly because they are black. [...] This is more than election year politics.  It is worse than a crass attempt to manipulate black voters with fear of Republicans.

Obama's Whistling Lap Dog.  Now, bear in mind the audience.  The National Action Network is Al Sharpton's plaything, often providing the shock troops Sharpton needs for rent-a-mob protests, shakedown operations, and MSNBC photo ops.  Holder didn't say criticism of him and Obama is racially motivated, but the notion the audience (or the media) would take it any other way doesn't pass the laugh test.  Holder's hypocrisy is stunning given that he once famously chastised Americans as being "cowards" for not talking openly about race.  Who's the coward now?

Cornyn Presses Holder on Gun Comments.  Sen. John Cornyn (R., Texas) is demanding answers from Attorney General Eric Holder on the Justice Department's pursuit of "smart gun" technology, warning that the government could require all gun owners to wear biometric bracelets to operate their firearms.  Cornyn sent a letter to the attorney general on Wednesday [4/16/2014] in response to remarks he made in testimony before a House subcommittee earlier this month, which were first reported by the Washington Free Beacon.  Holder said his agency is "exploring" technology to make guns "more safe."  "By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon," he said.

Obama's thug administration.  One of the hallmarks of the Obama administration is that it is among the most corrupt administrations in living memory.  [...] Among the most corrupt functionaries of the Obama regime is Attorney General Eric Holder, who appears to be Obama's alter ego and enforcer.  From day one he let America know that he held most of its citizens in contempt by proclaiming that the American people were afraid of having an honest discussion about race.  Truth is Holder's definition of an "honest discussion" consists of lecturing white Americans about their inherent racism and selectively prosecuting crimes according to the race of the accused.

Eric Holder wants $15M to train against active shooters.  In wake of two mass shootings this month, Attorney General Eric Holder urged Congress Tuesday to authorize $15 million for training state and local law enforcement officers to confront so-called active shooters.

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Mr. Holder doesn't have $15 million to give away.  All he can do is "urge" the Congress to spend money.

Holder's undermining of the law deserving of contempt.  No attorney general of the United States is entitled, for any reason, to escape scrutiny of Congress, period.  Is the attorney general really mounting a defense to his contempt charges on the basis that Congress is racist and that he need not respond to legal prerogatives they lawfully exercise?  Where would that wild notion put us as a country?  How would any attorney general hiding behind this kind of defense ever be held accountable?  Does this mean, for example, whenever this attorney general is questioned for noncompliance with congressional subpoenas — particularly in a case grave enough to earn him criminal and civil contempt citations — an acceptable defense shall be to accuse the questioner of racism?  Is this not a transparent deflection?

Holder: U.S. To Make More Convicts Eligible for Presidential Clemency.  The Obama Administration continued its push to reduce the number of prisoners serving long sentences as a result of the nation's federal drug laws on Monday [4/21/2014] with an announcement by Attorney General Eric Holder describing new rules that would expand the pool of convicts eligible to apply for presidential clemency.  In a video released by the Department of Justice, Holder said they will expand the existing criteria government attorneys use to consider which offenders may be eligible for clemency.  Later this week Deputy Attorney General James Cole will announce the new criteria, which Holder expects will lead thousands to apply to receive reduced sentences.

DOJ announces clemency overhaul, allows release for some after 10 years.  The Justice Department moved Wednesday [4/23/2014] to significantly expand the number of people eligible for clemency, issuing new guidelines allowing certain prisoners who already have served at least 10 years behind bars to apply for release.  The initiative is part of a broader Obama administration effort to ease sentences for nonviolent drug offenders.  Deputy Attorney General James Cole outlined the changes, which include six separate criteria inmates must meet to be eligible, on Wednesday morning.

Holder cancels speech, appearance in OKC amid angry protests.  Attorney General Eric Holder canceled his appearance before the Oklahoma City Police Department's graduating cadet class Thursday [4/24/2014] amid angry protests over his scheduled visit. [...] Mr. Holder's scheduled visit to Oklahoma City drew the criticism of several conservative lawmakers who planned the protest anticipating his arrival, including state Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, Moore Republican, who has stated he believes that Mr. Holder should be impeached.

Attorney General Eric Holder cancels police academy graduation speech.  A Department of Justice official told MailOnline on Thursday [4/24/2014] that looming protests by state lawmakers and a need to protect Attorney General Eric Holder's image among law enforcement officers caused him to pull out of a planned speech in Oklahoma City.  Holder's public schedule shows that he was to 'deliver remarks at the Oklahoma City Police Department's 130th police academy graduation ceremony.'  That address didn't occur, however.  Seven Oklahoma legislators were preparing to lead a crowd of hundreds in protests across the street, most calling for Holder's impeachment.

Protests force Holder, Michelle Obama to cancel speeches; What's going on?  You might wonder why Obama's attorney general, who refuses to provide so many 'Fast and Furious' documents to Congress, can instead find the time to fly halfway across the country to address a graduating class of Oklahoma City police cadets.  You wouldn't be alone in such wonderment.  Turns out, Holder decided those new police officers weren't all that important after all.  When word got out about Holder's Thursday speech, hundreds of opponents set a downtown protest, including Rep. James Lankford.

Holder plans to remain as attorney general through midterm elections.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has decided to stay in his job through the fall midterm elections but he will not commit beyond the end of the year, according to Justice Department officials familiar with his plans.  After Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced her resignation earlier this month, some Washington insiders speculated that Holder would resign before the midterm elections, because it would be more difficult to confirm a new attorney general if the Democrats lost control of the Senate.

U.S. Justice Department to collect, study arrest data for racial bias.  Later this year, a $4.75 million federal grant will be awarded to recipients who compete for the funds to work with their local law enforcement to analyze arrest data and find ways to reduce any biases they find, particularly toward young minority men.

DOJ to spend $4.75M studying race.  The Justice Department will spend $4.75 million to create a center to collect racial data on police stops, searches and arrests in an effort to shine a light on a perceived bias against minorities. [...] In a video statement issued Monday afternoon [4/28/2014], Holder pointed to a recent study finding that roughly half of all black men in the United States are arrested at least once by age 23.  The same study found that black men were six times more likely to be arrested than white men in 2012.

Holder, Justice Department to collect police data to evaluate racial bias.  The Department of Justice will begin collecting law-enforcement data on stops, searches and arrests made in some U.S. cities to evaluate racial discrimination, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a video statement Monday [4/28/2014].  Mr. Holder said this initiative, funded by a $4.75 million federal grant, will help level the playing field for men of color and improve the relationship between African-Americans and the law-enforcement community.  Half of African-American men have been arrested at least once by age 23, and overall, black men were six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men in 2012, Mr. Holder said.

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If blacks are "six times more likely to be imprisoned than white men" it's either the result of a nationwide conspiracy that involves every cop, every District Attorney, every judge and every jury in the country, or it could be because, on a per capita basis, blacks commit six time as much crime as whites.  (Sources:  [1] [2] [3] [4] )  Mystery solved.  Where do I collect the $4.75 million dollars?

Eric Holder Targets Banks: 'No Such Thing as Too Big to Jail'.  On Monday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced he is willing to punish financial institutions for criminal practices in a video posted to the Justice Department website.  "I intend to reaffirm the principle that no individual or entity that does harm to our economy is ever above the law," Holder said.  "There is no such thing as 'too big to jail.'"

AG Holder: "No such thing as too big to jail".  In video remarks released Monday on the Justice Department's website, he said no company is immune from prosecution regardless of its size.  "There is no such thing as too big to jail."  Holder also said the Justice Department is pursuing several "important investigations" into corporate wrongdoing and hinted the agency would take action in the "coming weeks and months."

Attorney general says racial equality threatened in subtle ways.  Attorney General Eric Holder said on Saturday while public utterances of bigotry are roundly condemned in the United States racial discrimination persists in more subtle ways.

Holder: US should worry about discrimination, not racist rants.  Americans should be more worried about policies that discriminate against minorities than racist rants that grab media attention, Attorney General Eric Holder said Saturday.  In a commencement speech at Baltimore's Morgan State University, he warned of subtler forms of racism — including harsher prison sentences for minorities and voter-ID laws that threaten to keep them from the polls.

The Obama Administration's Ethics Problem.  Eric Holder is the first attorney general to have been held in contempt of Congress.  Aside from his divisive language (he called America "a nation of cowards" and referred to African Americans as "my people"), Holder always seems to find himself at the center of scandals.  He permitted the federal monitoring of Associated Press journalists.  He green-lighted the "Fast and Furious" gun-running scam.  He has failed to bring to account rogue IRS officials.  Holder is the most morally compromised attorney general since Nixon appointee John Mitchell.

Eric Holder Tells Graduates to Forget Sterling, Voter ID a Bigger Threat.  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told graduates in Maryland that they should ignore "hateful rants" like that from Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Holder said that voter ID and "zero tolerance" policies in schools are worse on minorities than anything Sterling could have done.  Speaking before 850 graduates at Baltimore's Morgan State University on Saturday, May 17, Holder warned students not to get caught up in the hype of "intolerant public statements," but to be more worried about the racism inherent in the U.S.A.  "...policies that disenfranchise specific groups are more pernicious than hateful rants," Holder told the students.

Jim Crow alive and well in Eric Holder's Justice Department.  Jim Crow is now making a huge comeback, thanks to the identity politics so common among liberals, especially on college campuses.  As PJ Media columnist and former U.S. Department of Justice civil rights attorney J. Christian Adams notes, a federal court recently struck down a law in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands that allowed only people of "Northern Mariana descent" to vote on constitutional referendums. In Guam, the new Jim Crow appears in a law that allows voter registration only by those with ancestors living there prior to 1950, thus effectively limiting the ballot to individuals descended from the Chamorro people.

House votes to defund Justice Dept. program that targeted legitimate gun dealers.  The House of Representatives passed an amendment Thursday to stop all federal funding to be used for the Department of Justice's Operation Choke Point, an anti-fraud operation that was found to be cutting off legitimate businesses from their banking lines.  "This is a major victory for consumers, law-abiding businesses, and anyone who believes in due process and restraint of government encroachment," said the Community Financial Services Association of America, a trade group opposed to the operation, in a statement Friday.  "Additionally, our banking system benefits as it will not be put in the position to police customers or make judgments about the political popularity of businesses and industries."

Arizona rep. calls for Eric Holder's impeachment over immigration concerns.  U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) said Holder is breaking the law. Gosar has joined a growing number of congressmen calling for the impeachment of Holder.  "They're processing a lot of these immigrants in Texas and shipping them here," he said.  "It's mind-defying.  It's a waste of resources and complicit with the smuggling of illegal immigrants across state lines."

5 Obama Officials Who Lied, Then Lied About Lying.  Attorney General Eric Holder.  In 2013, Holder testified before Congress that he would not prosecute any reporter under the Espionage Act of 1917.  "In regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material," he stated, "this is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, or would think would be wise policy."  Except that Holder himself personally approved an application for a warrant on Fox News's James Rosen under the auspices of the Espionage Act.

Review: Holder Is 'Obama's Enforcer' of Racialist, Lawless DOJ Agenda.  [T]he new book Obama's Enforcer by Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund documents the rank lawlessness that has saturated Eric Holder's Justice Department, and thus, the Obama presidency. [...] The authors catalog Holder as an enforcer for a progressive gang spanning across all agencies of the federal government.  Obama's enforcer has successfully turned the power and prestige of the Justice Department into a radicalized agency for fundamental change.  Holder is the enforcer that has used his power to turn America away from post-racial possibilities and toward race-obsessed legal policies.  According to the authors, Holder is the single most important change agent inside the single most important change agency.  The book also covers territory never before touched — namely, why is Holder so radicalized?

Holder: Boy Scouts gay ban preserves worst stereotypes.  Taking aim at the Boy Scouts of America's continuing ban on gay adult leaders, Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday [6/10/2014] that the prohibition perpetuates "the worst kind of stereotypes."  "It's a relic of an age of prejudice and insufficient understanding,  the attorney general said Tuesday evening to Lambda Legal, an advocacy group for LGBT rights.

Attorney General Eric Holder blasts Boy Scouts for anti-gay discrimination.  Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday that the Irving-based Boy Scouts of America perpetuates "the worst stereotypes" by barring gay people from becoming Scout leaders.  "The continuation of a policy that discriminates against gay adult leaders — by an iconic American institution — only preserves and perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes," Holder said in a speech to the gay civil rights group Lambda Legal in Washington.

Obama Justice Department Pushes to Target "Thought Crime".  Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the Justice Department will be utilizing a program originally designed to prevent domestic threats to the United States.  The program will label as threats individuals the government has deemed anti-government or racially prejudiced, paving the way to targeting political dissenters.

House Bill to Impeach Eric Holder Now Has 26 Co-Sponsors.  It might be time for Eric Holder to get his resume ready and start looking for other employment.  Holder might be on the brink of making history, but not in a good way, as a House bill calling for his impeachment is starting to gain massive support in Congress, which could make him the first Attorney General to be removed from office.  Many conservatives are ready to give Holder the boot for breaking the law and attempting to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution by using information from the IRS to prosecute people for their political beliefs.

Holder: If Gay Adults Are Fit for Military Service, They re Fit to Lead Boy Scouts.  The Attorney General of the United States told a homosexual advocacy group on Tuesday night that the Boy Scouts of America "preserves and perpetuates the worst kind of stereotypes" by refusing to allow homosexuals to serve as Boy Scout troop leaders.  "Today, courageous lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals routinely put their lives on the line as members of America's armed services," Holder told Lambda Legal Tuesday night [6/10/2014].  "And if these men and women are fit for military service, then surely they are fit to mentor, to teach, and to serve as role models for the leaders of future generations."

Rep. Paul Gosar's crusade: Impeach Eric Holder.  The man who led the charge to have Eric H. Holder Jr. held in contempt of Congress is on a new crusade:  to impeach the nation's first black attorney general.  "There's a total disregard for the rule of law," Rep. Paul A. Gosar, Arizona Republican, told The Washington Times.  "We can't sit idly by here as we see the Constitution and justice being defamed right and left at the whim of the attorney general."

Eric Holder's DOJ Sets Up 'Terrorism Committee' to Investigate 'Anti-Government' Extremism.  It is not a controversial claim to state that Attorney General Eric Holder has politicized the Department of Justice.  In the past, this politicization has amounted to stonewalling, monitoring journalists, or dropping ideologically inconvenient cases.  But now the Department of Justice is shifting gears into overdrive and is intent on finding the roots of "anti-government" animus (as if it's a condition of citizenship to support the government no matter what).

How Eric Holder Has Destroyed the Justice Department's Reputation.  I don't know who the next U.S. attorney general will be, but I know I pity that person.  Restoring the Justice Department's reputation in the wake of Eric H. Holder Jr.'s tenure will take a lot of work.  You can find out just how big a task it will be in "Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department," a new book by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky.  Even at a relatively slim 217 pages, it's quite a bill of indictment.

Welcome To The Executive Dictatorship.  There is almost nothing the president of the United States cannot do.  This week, we found out President Barack Obama's IRS not only targeted conservative nonprofit applicants with impunity but then destroyed the emails that could have illuminated the process behind such targeting.  Meanwhile, the attorney general — the executive officer charged with fighting government criminality — continues to stonewall an independent prosecutor, maintaining along with his boss that there is not a "smidgen of corruption" in the IRS.

The Justice Department Unleashes A Godzilla On Business.  After she destroyed Arthur Andersen in a flawed and subsequently overturned prosecution, the Senate has confirmed Leslie Caldwell to lead the DOJ's criminal division, giving her a mandate for even more mayhem. [...] It's not just that the woman has a record of doing anything for a conviction — including concealing exculpatory evidence, as her task force did in the Enron case.  She's also a political animal who specializes in high-profile cases and handles political pressure with no sweat.

Smoking Gun Trail To White House.  How can the DOJ conduct an investigation into unlawful aspects of the IRS targeting of specific 501(c)(4) groups, when the DOJ is the initiating body for the illegality they are seeking to investigate?

The 'Most Dangerous Man In The Obama Administration'.  In his new book, Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department (co-written with John Fund), Hans von Spakovsky reveals how our attorney general has turned America's Department of Justice into "a politicized hotbed of left-wing legal activism."  The author revealed to Human Events the magnitude of Holder's offenses highlighted in his book, offenses which should be an alarming wake-up call to every American:

Take Lessons From America's Great Generals in Fighting Obama Lawlessness.  There is little question that President Obama is waging total war against the rule of law in America.  He uses "Executive Authority" to bypass Congress in making unilateral decisions by decree.  He colludes with Democrats in the Senate to create gridlock, providing him more opportunity to justify his unilateral actions.  He makes [now illegal] "recess appointments" to stack key government agencies with high-level bureaucrats to institutionalize his Big Government agenda.  He tampers with congressional investigations into the gross misconduct of his federal employees through political pressure and manipulation.  Those under him destroy evidence.  And, to ensure immunity from legal consequences for his unconstitutional activities, he has compromised the Department of Justice — turning Attorney General Eric Holder into his Enabler-in-Chief.

The Dictatorship Will Begin with Eric Holder.  The easiest way to dissolve our republic will be through prosecutorial discretion.  And this Department of Justice seems to pretty much understand this concept.

Eric Holder's long losing record before the Supreme Court.  If Eric Holder were a baseball player, he'd have been benched long ago — if not kicked off the team.  His batting average before the Supreme Court is abysmal, losing again and again in his efforts to undermine the Constitution.  This term featured four big strike downs.

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I would think it would be more appropriate to blame the Solicitor General, not the Attorney General, if there has been a string of defeats at the Supreme Court.

To Impeach Holder.  Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) and a group of House lawmakers are building a case for impeaching Attorney General Eric Holder. [...] Cruz had made such comments before, but this speech was different.  He spent 40 minutes laying out the case for Holder's impeachment — spending the bulk of that time on the IRS scandal, but also citing the Justice Department's failure to enforce various laws, the department's Operation Fast and Furious, and Holder's role in the administration obtaining journalists' phone records.  Cruz demanded that Holder appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS scandal.  "If [Holder] refuses, Senator Cruz will support measures to move forward with his impeachment," a Cruz aide told NRO.

Why isn't the LEFT freaking out about Eric Holder still having a job?  [Here is] why Eric Holder still has a job:  it's because his job is to protect Barack Obama until the man is safely out of office.  The Attorney General isn't working for the country:  he's working for one specific individual.  So far, yes, so trite — but consider this for a moment:  Eric Holder isn't working for the Left, either.  And they're getting hammered over Holder's misplaced loyalty, too.

Holder Equates 'Vehemence' of Opposition to Obama with 'Racial Animus'.  Attorney General Eric Holder told ABC News that "vehemence" in opposing the president and his policies is indicative of racism. [...] It takes a truly self-absorbed man to think that the level of emotion engendered by opposition to public policies is somehow indicative of race hatred.  But from Holder's point of view, it makes perfect sense.  Obviously, the president's policies are good for the country.  Obviously, the only reason to oppose them is because you don't like the president's race.  Obviously, the madder you are at the president, the bigger the racist you are.

Words are not racist, actions are.  In reality it is Eric Holder who is the coward as he hides behind the racial fires he deliberately stokes. [...] Holder is stoking the racial fires at a time when his pal President Obama is under fire from all sides for his own bad policies and mounting failures.  He can't cite specifics because that's not his goal.  If there were cases worth charging then charge under existing law.

Eric Holder, Media-Spoiled Brat.  Attorney General Eric Holder granted an exclusive interview to ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" from London, where he was portrayed by ABC as deeply concerned about the global terrorist threat.  What stands out from this very rare session — Holder hasn't been on Sunday network television in four years — is that Holder pulled out the oldest, lamest card in the Obama political deck:  President Barack Obama and he are opposed by people who should be suspected of racism.

Department of Justice: We Heard About IRS Missing Emails On The News.  James Cole, deputy attorney general in the Department of Justice, testified Thursday [7/17/2014] that the DOJ heard about the destruction of IRS officials' emails in the news, even though DOJ has formally been investigating the IRS for more than a year.  "I think we learned about it after that, from press accounts," Cole told House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee chairman Rep. Jim Jordan at a hearing Thursday on the DOJ's response to the wave of computer crashes at the IRS that wiped out seven different employees' hard drives.

Government corruption on the rampage.  The Obama administration is arguably the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. Corruption destroys civil society and economic growth by undermining the rule of law and protection of private property.  Corruption takes many forms, from the simple payment to a government official for a favor, to the failure of government employees to do what they are paid to do, to gross abuse of power.  The president and his senior officials swear to uphold the Constitution and the law — which means following the law as written, and not as they wish it were written.  The failure to apply equal justice to all citizens is a major form of corruption and has been blatant in Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s "Justice Department."  Crimes by members or friends of the administration are ignored — just consider the lack of action against employees of the Internal Revenue Service who obviously broke the law in many cases.

The IRS Scandal and the Politicization of Justice.  If you want a good illustration of how Attorney General Eric Holder has politicized the Justice Department and its prosecutorial decision-making, all you have to do is look at what Justice has not done in just one part of the IRS scandal.  Despite its agreement to settle a lawsuit filed by the National Organization for Marriage against the IRS for the illegal disclosure of confidential tax information, it has not prosecuted any of the individuals or organizations who illegally disclosed and published that information.

DOJ Sued for Records of Obama's Effort to Grant Mass Clemency to Criminals.  At first, the administration tried negotiating with Congress.  When that failed, Obama simply nullified the law and implemented "deferred action" (amnesty) for young illegal aliens and virtually anyone else who had made it across the border and hadn't gotten caught for doing something else terribly criminal.  Congress, including a complicit Republican leadership, watched, complained a little bit, but did little under their constitutional powers to uphold the rule of law.  We have seen the results, as tens of thousands of illegals are streaming across the border, bringing crime, chaos, and disease.  As if the situation at the border is not dangerous enough on its own, now the Obama Department of Justice wants to bust through prison walls and release tens of thousands of drug criminals onto the streets.  And what's the explanation? Drug laws are "unjust" and "outdated."

Immigrant groups sue Holder over deportations.  A coalition of immigrant rights groups is suing the government to halt deportation proceedings for children that crossed the Southwest border after fleeing violence in their native El Salvador and Guatemala.  Half a dozen children are listed as plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit naming Attorney General Eric Holder, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell as defendants.  The lawsuit seeks to block deportation of just those children, unless the government can ensure adequate legal representation.

Lois Lerner's Vendetta.  House Republicans have released a Lois Lerner email exchange from November 2012 that "clearly demonstrates why Ms. Lerner not only targeted conservatives, but denied such groups their rights to due process and equal protection under the law," wrote House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. [...] Camp is using this information to make the case that Lerner's bias is self-apparent, and that the DOJ should get more involved in reviewing her, along with the IRS.  He also reiterated his contention that Holder has yet to make a determined effort to do so.  "Despite the serious investigation and evidence this Committee has undertaken into the IRS's targeting of individuals for their beliefs, there is no indication that DOJ is taking this matter seriously," he said in a statement.

The Arrogance of Eric Holder.  Holder is the legal ringleader for today's Democrats and their culture of corruption.  After being held in criminal contempt of Congress in June 2012 — the first such citation against a sitting attorney general in American history — he is just a few steps away from being impeached in the House of Representatives and tried in the Senate for the high crimes and misdemeanors his detractors say he has committed against the American people.  Twenty House members have introduced a formal impeachment resolution, H.Res. 411.  The resolution's four articles of impeachment accuse Holder of wrongdoing in connection with his involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal, refusing to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, refusing to prosecute IRS officials who leaked confidential GOP donor tax information, and providing misleading testimony to Congress about whether he approved invasive investigative tactics against reporters like James Rosen of Fox News.

50 Things Barack Obama Has Done Wrong:  [#35]  The Department of Justice has worked overtime to help increase voter fraud by fighting against voter ID.  This is despite the fact that you need ID to buy alcohol, drive a car, fly on a plane or even to use Obamacare.

Holder's absurd push for equal-outcome policing.  Women are thought to be not big enough and not strong enough to play [professional basketball] with men.  In a game where the scoreboard can't be argued with, that's not discrimination, but a simple recognition of the differences in strength, size and stamina between men and women.  Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. pretends there are no differences.  The Justice Department has sued the Pennsylvania State Police, alleging sex discrimination in the hiring of troopers.  The government lawyers argue that the physical-fitness tests the Pennsylvania State Police have used since 2003 "disproportionately disadvantage" women.

What to do about the politicization of the Attorney General's office.  The chief law enforcement officer of the United States is the Attorney General.  He/she is charged with the investigations and prosecutions of Federal crimes.  When there is corruption in the government, it is the Attorney General who is charged with ferreting out the corrupt and restoring integrity to the Federal government.  But what if the Attorney General selectively seeks out crimes to investigate?  What if the Attorney General turns a blind eye to those crimes and scandals that will discredit his political interests?  What if the Attorney General himself is corrupt?

What Taxpayers Pay When Eric Holder Uses Government Jets For Personal Trips.  On a pleasant Saturday this summer, Eric Holder, his daughters, their boyfriends and two security officers boarded a government-owned Gulfstream and jetted off to New York for the Belmont Stakes Thoroughbred horse race. [...] According to records obtained by The Daily Caller through a Freedom of Information Act request, Holder is getting pretty good deal here — especially when he flies a government-owned Gulfstream V jet.  That one day trip to Elmont, N.Y. on June 7, according to records provided to TheDC by the Department of Justice, ended up costing the government $14,440.

Eric Holder and DOJ/CRS Actively Wanted To Keep Mike Brown Robbery Video Hidden From Public.  Under Eric Holder's tenure the DOJ civil rights division has actively engaged in pushing racial grievances to the forefront of their operational goals.  This type of intentional organizational racism even led to the former head of the Civil Rights Division, Ondray Harris, quitting his federal job after he was instructed not to hire non-blacks.  In the Mike Brown shooting the institutional racism of the DOJ surfaces again with the DOJ demand NOT to release the robbery video which showed the behavior of Mike Brown just prior to the encounter with police officer Darren Wilson.

Why the Obama administration sees racism everywhere.  The Obama administration has done little to calm racial tensions as they spread from Manhattan to St. Louis to Los Angeles.  Quite the opposite, some top officials have fueled African-American fears of racism with false accusations of anti-black discrimination.  Attorney General Eric Holder's race-baiting is no secret.  Justice Department documents show the nation's top cop gave thousands of dollars to help the Rev. Al Sharpton organize marches protesting the death of Trayvon Martin.  Now he's sent the civil-rights unit to St. Louis to do the same thing in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.  Less known, however, is the role of Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, who's made incendiary — and shamefully disingenuous — statements about race relations in America.

How The Obama Administration Made The Situation In Ferguson Worse.  [For example,] DOJ Tried to Quash the Strong-Arm Robbery Tape.  With all of the hubbub surrounding the Brown shooting, public outcry about police failure to release information about the incident was at fever pitch by late last week.  That's when the Ferguson Police Department released tape of "gentle giant" Michael Brown participating in a strong-arm robbery at a local convenience store.  Eric Holder's DOJ had known about that tape for days, and they attempted to stop the police from releasing the information.

Eric Holder: Michael Brown Death Cause for 'Robust Action' to Increase Police Diversity.  Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to use Michael Brown's death and the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, to push for more police diversity and even combat unintentional "disparate treatment under the law" of minorities.

Meet the Radical DOJ Unit Investigating Ferguson Shooting.  Why does it matter that the DOJ unit that will investigate the Ferguson police is stacked with leftists and ideologues?  Because anti-police biases of lawyers in this unit have resulted in gross prosecutorial misconduct against police officers.  United States District Judge Kurt Engelhardt issued [a] blistering 129-page opinion documenting prosecutorial misconduct by DOJ lawyers seeking to convict New Orleans police officers of civil rights violations.  These lawyers are still employed by the Criminal Section at the Civil Rights Division.

AG Holder Meeting With Michael Brown's Parents.  Holder was meeting with them Wednesday evening [8/20/2014] in the U.S. attorney's office in downtown St. Louis.

Eric Holder: 'I Am the Attorney General... but I'm Also a Black Man'.  In remarks made at a meeting of members of the Ferguson community, Holder stirred some racial strife of his own claiming that, even as he is Attorney General, he was once also a victim. [...] Holder also fanned the flames of racial strife across the nation hinting that what happened to teenager Michael Brown was common all across the nation.

The Editor says...
The Attorney General, like far too many other liberals, is quick to inject race into every conversation.

Eric Holder and The Lynch Mob Mentality in Ferguson.  [A]ccording to United States District Judge Kurt Engelhardt, Attorney General Holder and the attorneys of his Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Criminal Section have a different idea of "fairness" than do most Americans.  The unit that will be investigating the shooting in Ferguson and deciding whether to charge police officer Darren Wilson with civil rights crimes has a history of anti-police activities and unethical conduct that caused Judge Kurt Englehardt to issue a blistering 129-page opinion documenting prosecutorial misconduct by DOJ lawyers seeking to convict New Orleans police officers of civil rights violations.  The 129-page opinion makes for frightening reading, [...]

Why Is Holder in Ferguson When 36 Blacks [were] Shot in Chicago Last Weekend?  If Sasha and Malia Obama, the president's young daughters, had another sister, she might look like 16-year-old Shaquise Buckner.  Chicago police say Shaquise, who was the same age as Malia, appeared to have been the unintended target of a gang-related drive-by shooting early Saturday morning [8/16/2014].  Yet Attorney General Eric Holder went to Ferguson, not Chicago.  Thirty-six people are shot in Chicago in a single weekend, seven of them fatally, yet the FBI sends 40 agents to Missouri to investigate the shooting death of one young black male.

Eric Holder shows he isn't interested in real justice.  Eric Holder candidly acknowledged his objective in the Michael Brown case when he stated, "my commitment... is, long after this tragic story no longer receives this level of attention, the Justice Department will continue to stand with Ferguson."  One might have hoped that the Justice Department's commitment in this instance would be to justice, rather than to standing with any particular group or geographic location.

Eric Holder, Racial Profiler.  Why has a federal civil-rights murder investigation arisen out of the tumult in a St. Louis exurb?  There is only one plausible reason:  Eric Holder is guilty of racial profiling. [...] Was the shooting a legitimate exercise in self-defense by an officer under attack?  Was it an overreaction for which Officer Wilson should suffer serious civil and criminal consequences?  Such questions can only be answered by a thorough and fair investigation, the kind of due process owed to both the victim and the subject of the investigation — the kind that, as National Review's editors point out, will be tough to mete out with political thumbs pressing on the scales.  Whatever the outcome, though, murder — including homicide caused by a policeman's application of excessive force — is generally not a federal crime.  It is a concern of state law.

Racism Forever.  On Wednesday [8/20/2014], the nation's top law enforcement officer — who doubles as the leading impediment to law enforcement, whenever he sees a law he doesn't like — flew to St. Louis for another exercise in the selective dispensation of justice. [...] History also simmers beneath the surface of Holder's rhetoric — a history of self-pity and grievance against his own country ("a nation of cowards," as he famously put it in his first speech after taking office).  He is always accusing his critics and political opponents of racism and bigotry.  It's a habit he can't break.

Eric Holder's Soros-Sponsored Police Sensitivity 'Training'.  The vice president's Boeing 757 delivered Eric Holder to St. Louis yesterday [8/20/2014].  In Ferguson, Holder announced that he was "a black man" and therefore had the power to heal Ferguson in ways that no other law enforcement official could.  Yet his comments were sure to throw gasoline on fire burning hot with racial division.  That shouldn't shock anyone.  It's the community organizing model of running the Justice Department.  What is shocking is who is fueling the Justice Department's "training" of police departments around the country:  radicals, communist-affiliated organizations, and George Soros.

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke: Eric Holder Needs to Apologize to Cops.  Attorney general Eric Holder and Missouri Democratic leaders need to apologize to the law-enforcement community for impugning officers' motives in light of the unrest in Ferguson, Mo., according to one prominent county sheriff.  Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke, who gained notoriety last year for encouraging gun ownership within his Wisconsin community, said Holder, Governor Jay Nixon, and Senator Claire McCaskill made the situation in Ferguson worse with their "irresponsible, inflammatory" comments about the city's police force and its supposed problem with race relations.

Eric Holder's 'Fair' Investigation in Ferguson?  Attorney General Eric Holder travelled to Ferguson, Missouri, Wednesday [8/20/2014] to personally intervene in the investigation of the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unprecedented and highly questionable move.  In a column published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Holder claimed that the Justice Department would conduct an investigation that would be "fair" and "independent."  But given Holder's biased views on race and the history of his tenure at DOJ [...] we have serious doubts that his department can conduct an impartial investigation.

Milwaukee Sheriff: Eric Holder "Owes Every Officer In America An Apology".  While visiting Ferguson, Missouri yesterday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters he "personally" understands the "sense of mistrust and mutual suspicion that can take hold in the relationship between law enforcement and certain communities."  It's that kind of "irresponsible" and "inflammatory" rhetoric that lead Milwaukee County sheriff David Clarke to demand an apology from Holder, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon, and Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill.  Clarke contends that Holder and others have made a bad situation in Ferguson worse by "insinuating that our law-enforcement officers across the United States engage in some nefarious or systematic and cultural attempts to violate people's civil rights."

Our Chief Law Enforcement Officer Doesn't Trust Police.  What a great choice for chief law enforcement officer — a race baiter who doesn't trust the police!  Eric Holder, the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government, met with the people of Ferguson while he was in Ferguson, but he appears to have snubbed local police.  His message was clear — he stands with the protesters and rioters.  "Change is coming," Holder announced in a message heard by rioters and protesters alike.  He met with the politically-oriented Chief Ron Johnson and the FBI who are in Ferguson conducting a parallel investigation to the police investigation.

Holder's police-shooting hypocrisy.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is enjoying a tidal wave of laudatory press coverage for his activism on the Ferguson, Mo., shooting and subsequent protests.  In the 1990s, though, Mr. Holder ignored plenty of cases of District of Columbia black cops killing unarmed black civilians — even when policemen lied about the shootings.  Mr. Holder was appointed in 1993 by President Clinton as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.  At that time, D.C. police were killing more civilians than any other large city police force, based on population.  The number of killings by D.C. police quadrupled between 1989 and 1995, when 16 civilians died as a result of police gunfire.

Holder: Leading the Racial Rush to Judgment.  One thing an old Ivy League revolutionary can't stand is people noticing that he represents the Establishment, that he embodies the System to a point where he can make it stop and make it go.  He will go to great lengths to convince himself, if not others, this is not so.  Take Eric H. Holder Jr., Columbia College Class of 1973, Columbia Law School Class of 1976, now into his sixth year as U.S. attorney general of the Obama Imperium.  The man really wants us to think he is not also "the man."

Holder Cuts Left In On $17 Billion Bank Of America Settlement.  The deal requires billions of dollars in debt forgiveness payments to delinquent borrowers.  It also requires Bank of America to make billions in new loans and to build affordable low-income rental housing.  The remaining money will go to a slush fund for leftists. [...] NeighborWorks of America has been a major supporter of ACORN, the left's most favored radicals.  According to Investors' Business Daily, in 2008 and 2009 NeighborWorks awarded a whopping $25 million to Acorn Housing.  Moreover, an Acorn Housing spinoff is directly eligible for BofA slush funds.  It's an outfit called Mutual Housing Association of New York.

DOJ To Give Money From Bank Of America Settlement To Liberal Activist Groups.  The Department of Justice is giving liberal activist groups money from a $16.6 billion settlement with Bank of America, Judicial Watch reports.  The groups benefiting from the lawsuit, according to Investor's Business Daily, are the National Council of La Raza, Operation Hope, National Community Reinvestment Coalition and Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America.  The money also went to "delinquent borrowers" in Chicago, Oakland, Detroit, Philadelphia and other major "Democrat strongholds."  "This is a wealth redistribution scheme disguised as a lawsuit," Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, told The Daily Caller.  "And who benefits from the distribution?  Interest groups the administration relies on, outside interest groups, allies and politicians in communities trying to benefit as well."  Fitton noted that these liberal groups are basically what's left of the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) network, and that President Barack Obama has ties to ACORN.

Holder's Bank of America Heist Funds Left's Community-Organizer Shock Troops.  Government coercion of the financial sector to make irresponsible loans was the primary driver of the 2007-08 financial meltdown.  Yet, as we've previously observed here, "Washington has searched every place but within for a scapegoat" — with the Obama Justice Department pursuing politically motivated investigations, prosecutions, and civil lawsuits against banks and credit rating agencies in order to concoct a history that blames predatory lending rather than statist policy.  Now we learn that Eric Holder, the Tom Hagen of this racketeering enterprise of an administration, is using the vig that DOJ muscle is extorting from the banks to pour tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of the radical Left's top rabble-rousers — in addition to diverting what should be public funds to pay off delinquent debts in cities that Democrats have destroyed.

Holder Cut Left-Wing Groups In On $17 Bil BofA Deal.  Buried in the fine print of the deal, which includes $7 billion in soft-dollar consumer relief, are a raft of political payoffs to Obama constituency groups.  In effect, the government has ordered the nation's largest bank to create a massive slush fund for Democrat special interests.  Besides requiring billions in debt forgiveness payments to delinquent borrowers in Cleveland, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Oakland, Detroit, Chicago and other Democrat strongholds — and up to $500 million to cover personal taxes owed on those checks — the deal requires BofA to make billions in new loans, while also building affordable low-income rental housing in those areas.

Americans believe the Department of Justice is motivated mostly by politics.  A growing number of Americans say they believe the U.S. Department of Justice is motivated primarily by political interests and not by the pursuit of the truth, according to a survey from Rasmussen Reports.  The poll, which was conducted on Aug. 26-27 and contains a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points, found that only 38 percent of U.S. voters hold a favorable opinion of the department headed by Attorney General Eric Holder, while a much larger 53 percent hold an unfavorable opinion.  Further, of these respondents, only nine percent hold a "very favorable" opinion, while 26 percent hold a "very unfavorable" position.

Eric Holder: A More Dangerous Race-Card Hustler Than Al Sharpton.  Holder complains about different prison rates, different school expulsion rates and longer prison sentences for black boys and men compared to white boys and men.  He equates "equal rights" with "equal results."  In Ferguson, Missouri, after announcing federal investigation into the cop-shooting death of an unarmed black teen, Holder said:  "I am the attorney general of the United States.  But I am also a black man.  I can remember being stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike on two occasions and accused of speeding. ... I remember how humiliating that was and how angry I was and the impact it had on me."  The New Jersey Turnpike?  The long-believed claim of "racism" on that highway has been investigated — and debunked.  Twice.

Justice Department Stonewalling Internal Investigators.  The head investigator charged with overseeing the Department of Justice testified Tuesday [9/9/2014] that various government agencies have repeatedly stymied his investigation efforts, and have done so in direct violation of federal law.  Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General of the Department of Justice, was testifying before the House Judiciary Committee hearing on investigative access to government information.

IRS and DOJ Conducted Targeting With Illegally Obtained Conservative Donor Lists.  The IRS scandal is NOT about the IRS.  Yes, the IRS did indeed target conservative groups; however, they were NOT the originating entity in the overall plan to create a list of targets.  The U.S. Department of Justice was the originating governmental agency who constructed the plan to make a target list and then weaponize various government agencies against those on the list.

If you know who Eric Holder is, you probably don't like him.  Attorney General Eric Holder is one of President Obama's best-known and longest-serving cabinet members.  Most recently, he led the administration's response to the racial unrest in Ferguson, Missouri following the Michael Brown killing, launching multiple Justice Department investigations into the police department there.  If the results of a new Wall Street Journal poll are any guide, Holder's service has not brought him much public approval.

Letter: Holder Aide Accidentally Calls Issa Staff for Help Spinning IRS Scandal.  A senior communications aide to Attorney General Eric Holder seemingly called House oversight committee chairman Darrell Issa's staff by accident and asked for their help spinning new revelations about the IRS scandal, Issa said in a September 8 letter to Holder.  The aide, Brian Fallon, is a former senior aide to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and a well-known personality on Capitol Hill.  The letter describes Fallon as "audibly shaken" when he realizes his request to leak documents to help get ahead of news stories about them was mistakenly made to the very office he was seeking to undermine.  Issa believes the call was intended to be made to Democratic Rep. Elijah Cumming's staff, the ranking member on the oversight panel, the letter said.

Holder Aide Accidentally Calls Issa's Office to Spin IRS Scandal, Nets Don't Report.  An aide to Eric Holder, who thought he was calling Democratic congressman Elijah Cummings' office for help on leaking documents to selected reporters, accidentally spilled the beans of the latest IRS spin job because he called House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa's office instead.  This newest twist in the IRS targeting scandal, that broke last night, was not covered on ABC, CBS or NBC's Wednesday morning [9/10/2014] shows.  According to Issa, the documents in question were related to Andrew Strelka — the former Lois Lerner employee that the committee demanded be turned over to them for questioning last week.

Misconduct at Justice Department isn't always prosecuted.  Dozens of Justice Department officials, ranging from FBI special agents and prison wardens to high-level federal prosecutors, have escaped prosecution or firing in recent years despite findings of misconduct by the department's own internal watchdog.  Most of the names of the investigated officials, even the highest-ranking, remain under wraps.  But documents McClatchy obtained under the Freedom of Information Act reveal for the first time a startling array of alleged transgressions uncovered by the department's inspector general.

Obama: Rout ISIL Everywhere (Except In U.S. Mosques).  President Obama has vowed to "hunt down (Islamic State) terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are" in Iraq and Syria.  News flash:  They're also in American mosques.  Yet Obama is not going after terrorists in radical mosques.  And he's making it harder for local governments to stop the construction of recruiting and training centers for the enemy.  In fact, as a grand jury investigates another Minneapolis mosque for radicalizing recruits for ISIL, the Justice Department is suing local officials for blocking a new extremist mosque in the area.

Holder Issues Fatwa.  [Scroll down]  Evidently this is part of the Obama administration's smart diplomacy.  The president intends to make good on his claim that America is a Muslim nation.  The idea is to distract public attention by combating bloody Islamist organizations abroad and smooth the path for stealth jihad on the home front.

The injustice of Eric Holder.  Even we were shocked when we researched our new book, "Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department," at the extent to which Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has politicized the Justice Department and put the interests of left-wing ideology and his political party ahead of the fair and impartial administration of justice.  However, there is no doubt that the American public has also recognized just how politically corrupt Mr. Holder is, given this month's very embarrassing poll conducted by Hart Research for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal.

DOJ Doesn't Punish Crime Among Its Ranks.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) is responsible for enforcing the law, providing federal leadership in preventing crime and punishing those guilty of illegal behavior yet it allows its own officials to get away with all sorts of appalling crimes and transgressions.  As if this weren't bad enough, the DOJ also protects its perpetrators, covering up their name and allowing them to keep their lucrative government jobs.  Even the agency watchdog, which is charged with rooting out corruption, conceals crucial information about unscrupulous DOJ officials, including those in high-ranking positions.  Now a national newspaper chain offers insight into this astounding cover-up scheme with documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a federal law often used by Judicial Watch to expose government corruption.

How attorney general hopes to mend relations between police and communities.  US Attorney General Eric Holder is asking a team of criminal justice researchers to study racial bias in law enforcement in five American cities.  Mr. Holder the program will be funded by a $4.75 million grant that will be used to study racial profiling in police arrests in five US cities over the course of three years.  These cities, which have yet to be identified, will serve as a testing ground for improving relations between police and citizens in communities across the country, he sais. [sic]

Undercover Hero Wins Landmark Case Against Holder's DOJ.  In 2007, a federal judge awarded [Jay] Dobyns $373,000 for the trauma inflicted upon his family due to the negligence of the government.  During the years that followed, Eric Holder's Department of Justice continually attacked Dobyns, tarnishing his reputation and calling into question his credibility.  Dobyns fought back by filing an additional lawsuit against them, claiming that the agency committed a "breach of good faith" by continuing to smear him.  Last week, after six years of pricey legal battles, Judge Francis Allegra ruled in favor of Jay Dobyns, awarding him an additional $173,000 in reparations.

Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's Sister on Timing of Holder Resignation: "Not a Coincidence".  In light of a federal judge denying a request from the Department of Justice to delay the release of a long-sought after Fast and Furious document list, the sister of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, Kelly Terry-Willis, doesn't find the timing of Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation to be a coincidence.  "I do not find it a coincidence that Eric Holder chose now to resign after Judge Bates denied the request from the DOJ to delay the release of the Fast and Furious documents.  I personally think Eric Holder was really hoping that the documents would never be made public to my family and the American people," Terry-Willis tells Townhall.

GOP to Obama: Don't use lame-duck Congress to replace Holder.  Conservatives are warning President Obama against using a lame-duck session of Congress to push through Attorney General Eric Holder's replacement, even as the White House signals its intention to fill the post quickly.  Holder's announcement that he will resign as the nation's top law enforcement officer reverberated Thursday [9/25/2014] around Washington, where speculation has already begun to mount about who might fill the Cabinet position.

Obama pays glowing tribute to tearful departing Attorney General Eric Holder as a liberal civil rights champion.  Obama said in the State Dining Room that he believes Holder's proudest achievement' was his record on civil rights reform, what he calls 'the conscience of the building' that the DOJ occupies just six blocks down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.  'Under his watch,' Obama said, 'the department has brought a record number of prosecutions for human trafficking, and for hate crimes — because no one in America should be afraid to walk down the street because of the color of their skin, the love in their heart, the faith they practice, or the disabilities that they live with.'

The Eric Holder Tragedy.  The resignation — if that's what it is — of Attorney General Eric Holder signals the end of one of the most divisive tenures in the history of the cabinet.  It was no doubt inevitable after Mr. Holder was determined, in a bi-partisan vote, to be in criminal contempt of the 112th United States House.  He became the only sitting cabinet officer in history to be so found.  He reacted to the contempt finding with more contempt.  From that point on his tenure in office was unsustainable.

Gohmert: Lois Lerner Will Miss Eric Holder.  Republican Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert said that Lois Lerner will miss departing-Attorney General Eric Holder's presence in the Department of Justice.  Holder, who announced his resignation as attorney general Thursday, has been overseeing a federal criminal investigation into the IRS scandal that has been accused of protecting the key Obama administration officials involved.  "For many years now, I have been calling for Attorney General Holder's resignation," Gohmert said in a statement.  "Not only has he lied before members of Congress and, ultimately, been held in contempt, he has obfuscated the truth and been the most partisan, partial, prejudiced, and self-pitying attorney general in my lifetime, including [Nixon Attorney General] John Mitchell who went to jail for his crime."

We Won't Have Eric Holder To Kick Around Any More.  Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation this morning.  He will stay on until a successor is nominated and confirmed.  Holder has been a poor Attorney General.  He will be remembered for Fast and Furious, consistently stonewalling Congress, and "civil rights" activism — which, however, had little to do with civil rights.  Holder promoted gay marriage, refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, and did his best to enable voter fraud.  He was a loyal Democratic Party foot soldier — conservatives aptly called him the Obama administration's scandal goalie — but it is hard to think of any positive accomplishment during his nearly six years in office.

Fox's Powers, Watters Erupt over Holder: 'Let Black Panthers off the Hook'.  Fox's Outnumbered feasted on the resignation announcement of Attorney General Eric Holder Thursday [9/25/2014], listing Republican objections to Holder's tenure, which range from Fast & Furious to trying 9/11 perpetrators in Manhattan.  But it was — wait for it — the Black Panthers around which the argument coalesced, with cohost Kirsten Powers and #oneluckyguy Jesse Watters clashing over what, if anything, had even happened that Holder allegedly had or had not ignored.

An Unfortunate Legacy.  Eric Holder has announced his resignation from his position as U.S. attorney general after almost six years of turning the Justice Department into a partisan political vehicle instead of a law enforcement institution.  It's too early to tell as of this writing what prompted his resignation.  One would like to think his legacy of scandals and corruption finally caught up to him, but we have no reasonable expectation that this is the case, given this administration's agility at escaping accountability for any and all wrongdoing.  No, I doubt it's his malfeasance in connection with the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, his obstruction of the congressional investigation into the Internal Revenue Service scandal or any other of a number of legitimate reasons warranting his repentance and resignation.

America to Eric Holder: What Took You so Long?  Seriously, it took him far too long.  After six years of neglected justice, activist ideology, and selective enforcement of laws, Eric Holder is throwing in the towel.  Wall Street, IRS-targeted conservative groups, and gun owners, are breathing a sigh of relief...  In fact, the only demographic that seems to be worried about the resignation of America's Attorney General are those Mexican Drug Cartels who used him as an arms supplier.  (I assume.)  And good riddance.

Goodbye, Eric, and Good Riddance.  What can be said about Eric Holder's six years as attorney general that PJ Media hasn't already said?  The news that Holder is going to resign should be bittersweet to anyone who cares about racial equality and the rule of law.  The damage he has already done to the country leaves a turbulent wake that is ill-matched to the financial reward awaiting him at a shameless and large Washington, D.C., law firm.  Our country is more polarized and more racially divided because of Eric Holder.  He turned the power of the Justice Department into a racially motivated turnout machine for the Democratic Party.  That was his job in this administration, and he did it well.

Chuck Todd: Eric Holder is a 'Very Non-Political Person'.  [Meet the Press host Chuck] Todd says this of the man who openly talked about serving "my people" as attorney general.  He made that comment in connection with the New Black Panther case — a racially-tinged case that Holder's DOJ dropped even after the government had won it.  Eric Holder desperately wants to treat al Qaeda terrorists as criminals rather than non-state illegal combatants.  That's a political choice, and one for which he has been roundly criticized.  When Holder attempted to move trials of al Qaeda terrorists from military tribunals to civilian court — in New York — he lost.  Big.  Being obtuse to the viewpoints of others, and being unable to comprehend that the things that you say and do offend and anger others, is not the same thing as being "non-political."

The End of Eric Holder.  Eric Holder has suddenly announced his retirement, declaring it was time to rebuild trust between police and minorities.  USA Today writes:  "Holder has expressed no specific plans for retirement.  But after visiting Ferguson, Missouri last month, he told friends and colleagues he wants to help rebuild trust between police and minority communities." [...] Eric Holder has suddenly announced his retirement, declaring it was time to rebuild trust between police and minorities.  USA Today writes:  "Holder has expressed no specific plans for retirement.  But after visiting Ferguson, Missouri last month, he told friends and colleagues he wants to help rebuild trust between police and minority communities." [...] Ferguson is more than a small town; it is now a political bomb shelter.  Both Holder and Obama are running for cover in the only place they know to hide, for a storm is now fairly upon them.

GOP on Holder's exit: 'Good riddance'.  The announcement of Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation on Thursday [9/25/2014] brought a fiery reaction from Republican lawmakers who wished him "good riddance."

Eric Holder Runs from a Ticking Time Bomb.  The surprise resignation of Eric Holder, the first Attorney General ever to be held in contempt of Congress, exploded in the news today.  Holder has been under unrelenting assault for the most egregious politicization and abuse of power in the Department of Justice in history — exceeding that of John Mitchell and Alberto Gonzalez.  He has made the Department of Obstructing Justice notorious.  Federal judges are stepping in to end his stone walling of Congressional and other investigations on several fronts, and now he's on the run.  Why now?  What is about to blow up?

Eric Holder's Legacy: Duplicity, Incompetence, and Obliviousness.  [H]e was a thoroughly typical attorney general, a cabinet position that has long been held by individuals whose first loyalty is to the president that appointed them rather than to the Constitution they swear to defend.

Eric Holder's reign ends with a whimper.  The resignation of Eric Holder as attorney general is an unavoidably symbolic moment for an administration that itself appears to be stumbling through the final years of a troubled second term.  Holder truly personifies an administration of unrivaled ambitions colliding with inescapable realities.  He proved a fierce friend to President Obama, and that loyalty might have worked to the disadvantage of both men.  After a series of major court defeats and public controversies, Obama (like President Bush before him) might have been served better by an attorney general who was more detached from him and more attached to the constitutional principles that shape both their offices.

Judicial Watch: Holder Went Down as We Forced DOJ's Hand on Fast and Furious in Court.  Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton said in a statement on Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder is resigning as his group is close to nailing the Department of Justice on Operation Fast and Furious.  Judicial Watch just won a key battle in federal court against the administration on the Fast and Furious documents President Barack Obama asserted executive privilege over to hide them from the American people and Congress.

Chuck Todd begins 'rehabilitation' by calling Eric Holder 'non-political'.  [Scroll down]  But should anyone think I'm being too hard on Todd for that exchange (after all, he did seem so earnest and full of good intentions to be an unbiased journalist), he lost no time proving he is just another lefty shill as he covered the story of Holder stepping down.

How Eric Holder Facilitated the Most Unjust Presidential Pardon in American History.  Marc Rich [...] became internationally notorious in 2001, when, as a fugitive from justice, he was pardoned by Bill Clinton in the last hours of his administration.  What many don't recall is that Attorney General Eric Holder, who was then a deputy attorney general, was instrumental in securing Rich's pardon.

Holder heading out, but contempt lives on.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Thursday he is resigning as soon as a replacement is found, though he and the Justice Department still face contempt of Congress charges that will linger well after he officially gives up the office.  Analysts said Mr. Holder — the first sitting Cabinet official ever to face a contempt citation from Congress — will likely duck any legal punishment, though his department will soon be forced to begin turning over the documents he withheld, which sparked the initial fight.  It's just the latest in a series of stormy disputes that have defined his turbulent six-year tenure.

Why Eric Holder Will Regret His Recklessness.  The nation can wave goodbye to Attorney General Holder with relief, as to a bad houseguest who almost burned down the house during his unwelcome stay.  His political missteps were legion, and his choices on law enforcement policy revealed a stunning combination of ideology and incompetence.  He called for the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other al-Qaeda leaders in downtown New York City, for example, which showed a failure to understand our war on terrorism.  He accused Americans of being a nation of cowards on race while dropping prosecutions of voter intimidation in Philadelphia.  He made a terrible error of judgment on sending guns that ended up in Mexico and then made the mistake of stonewalling Congress's effort to investigate — leading to the unprecedented citation for contempt of a sitting attorney general.

Obama's enforcer resigns: Attorney General Holder one of worst officials ever to lead Justice Department.  [E]very time President Obama has broken, bent, ignored or changed the law, the person at his side advising him how to do it has been Eric Holder.  Mr. Holder is also responsible for spearheading an unprecedented politicization of the Justice Department, which should be of great concern to anyone who cares about the rule of law and the impartial administration of justice.

Holder: My Work Helped To Create A More Perfect Union.  Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder stepped down saying his work at the Department of Justice over the last six years has significantly improved civil rights in America and, "help to craft a more perfect union."

Holder denies timing his resignation for election.  Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday [9/26/2014] that the timing of his resignation had nothing to do with the midterm elections.  "That decision was made irrespective of the midterms," Holder said in an interview with MSNBC.  The timing of his departure allows President Obama to try to get a replacement confirmed before the new Congress arrives next year, where the Senate could be controlled by Republicans.  The White House hinted on Friday that it would indeed try to get the new attorney general through in the lame-duck session.

Eric Holder's Rap Sheet.  In an administration characterized by outsized misadventures — from the use of the nation's tax bureau to suppress political opponents to the use of secret waiting lists at government hospitals that killed American servicemen — Eric Holder managed to make his Justice Department a source of special, nay, historic attention:  In June 2012, Holder became the first U.S. attorney general to be held in contempt by the House of Representatives.  He earned every vote.  Achieving "justice" via the Justice Department may be an intrinsically unlikely prospect, but none of Holder's recent predecessors — Janet Reno, John Ashcroft, Michael Mukasey, even the much-maligned Alberto Gonzales — exhibited his sheer contempt for the rule of law.  Much to his preference was employing the law for political purposes; or, when necessary, dispensing with the law completely.

When you think of Eric Holder, please remember Elian Gonzalez.  As we count down Eric Holder's greatest hits, the first image that comes to the mind of many Americans isn't that of Brian Terry, or of Black Panthers outside polling places, but of a screaming child staring down the barrel of a rifle.  On April 22, 2000, just before dawn, U.S federal agents executed a full-blown raid on the home of five year old Elian Gonzalez, seizing the child and setting in motion procedures to send Elian and his father back to Cuba.

Attorney General Eric Holder orders no death penalty for three members of Brooklyn drug crew.  Outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered federal prosecutors not to seek the death penalty against three members of a Brooklyn drug crew charged with a killing in which the victim was tortured, the [New York] Daily News has learned  The decision was disclosed Thursday [9/25/2014] in a one-sentence letter to Brooklyn Federal Judge Frederic Block several hours after Holder announced he was resigning after nearly six years as the nation's top law enforcement official.

Brian Terry's Sister: Holder Quitting No Accident.  The attorney general who oversaw the administration's Fast and Furious gun-walking operation into Mexico resigns right after a federal court denies a DOJ request to delay releasing Fast And Furious documents.

DOJ Tells Ferguson Police Department — 'Stop Supporting Darren Wilson'.  In order to facilitate direct terror attacks against Police Officers and their families in Ferguson Missouri, the Federal Department of Justice is demanding the names of the police officers be made evident on their uniforms.  It is apparently too difficult to coordinate attacks against the individual officers and their families if the names are not readily available.  In addition the DOJ is requesting the Ferguson Police department make it a easier to isolate Officer Wilson.

Feds tell Ferguson chief to ban 'I am Darren Wilson' bracelets.  Federal civil rights investigators want the Ferguson police chief to ban his officers from wearing bracelets supporting a white colleague who shot and killed an unarmed, black 18-year-old.

Good riddance to polarizing Eric Holder.  Those in this country who still care about right and wrong, the rule of law and "justice" not filtered through the political shop of the Obama White House just received some very good news with the announcement that the incredibly uncivil "civil rights champion" Eric Holder is resigning as attorney general.  This is great news unless Barack Obama, a president with no discernible domestic or foreign policy, attempts to appoint Holder to the Supreme Court.  Should that happen, hopefully some of the Democrats in the Senate now separating themselves from the foundering presidency of Obama will join with the Republicans to block the nomination.

Eric Holder Out, Special Prosecutor to Follow?  Holder is the legal ringleader for today's Democrats and their noxious culture of corruption.  After being held in criminal contempt of Congress in June 2012 — the first such citation against a sitting attorney general in American history — for a while he has been just a few steps away from being impeached in the House of Representatives.  Now it appears he will never be tried in the Senate for the high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed against the American people.  If there is any justice, after the Obama era mercifully draws to a close, Holder will be prosecuted for a litany of abuses that have been ably documented by J. Christian Adams in Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department and by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky in Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department.  But don't hold your breath waiting for justice to be done.

Eric Holder's Original Sin.  In his very first public act as attorney general, he showed his cronies that Obama was more anxious about keeping them happy than he was about faithfully executing the laws of the land.  When the media let them get away with this, they knew they could get away with anything, and they were right.  The details of the case are evil enough to outrage just about every American outside of a major media newsroom.

Will Obama Try to Put Holder on the Supreme Court?  [Scroll down]  Also arguing against the nomination of Eric Holder is the fact that he has already been censured by the House of Representatives.  In and of itself, such a censure has no legal standing to block Holder's nomination, but it does indicate that at least 218 members of the House were seriously upset with Mr. Holder's evident refusal to cooperate in a legal matter before them.  His constant delaying tactics, editing and failure to turn over documents (or if you prefer the term — evidence) was hardly consistent with the responsibilities of the "Chief Law Enforcement officer" in the nation.  Why mention the vote to censure Holder?  Because the same 218 members of the House would be sufficient to deliver a Bill of Impeachment to the Senate regarding a new Justice Eric Holder.

Eric Holder's 7 Worst Actions as Attorney General.  Attorney General Eric Holder, the first attorney general in history to be held in contempt by the House of Representatives, surprised the political world today when he announced he would be resigning, effective on the confirmation of his successor.  Holder will leave a troubled legacy and many unanswered questions as John Fund and I discovered when we were researching our new book, "Obama's Enforcer: Eric Holder's Justice Department."  The Justice Department veterans we talked to said that Holder has politicized the Department to an unprecedented degree, which should concern everyone who cares about the rule of law.

Reminder: The Republicans Who Voted to Confirm Eric Holder.  Given the disastrous reign of Eric Holder at the Department of Obstructing Justice — "the most partisan Attorney General in history" according to Sen. Ted Cruz — it's worth remembering the Republican nitwits, sycophants and dupes who voted to confirm him.

Eric Holder, A Legacy of Race-Based Radicalism.  Attorney General Eric Holder is at long last relinquishing his cabinet post after nearly six unprecedented, catastrophic years of racial demagoguery and gangsterism. [...] Holder was the official assigned to vet President Bill Clinton's 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001.  Among those pardoned were former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans.  He was deeply involved in Clinton's pardons of fugitive financier Marc Rich and Puerto Rican terrorists.  Holder is an archetype, a living, breathing embodiment of American political corruption.

Holder will regret his refusal to obey the Constitution.  The nation can wave goodbye to Attorney General Holder with relief, as to a bad house-guest who almost burned down the house during his unwelcome stay.  His political missteps were legion, and his choices on law enforcement policy revealed a stunning combination of ideology and incompetence.

Goodbye Eric Holder.  In a nation where there is a scarcity of good news, hearing Eric Holder give a farewell speech upon his announcement that he will be leaving as the Attorney General was surely welcome in some circles.  I was never a fan of his because he was in my opinion always more of a politician than someone with the responsibility to enforce the laws of the nation.  I first took notice of Holder when, in the pre-dawn hours of April 22, 2000, as the deputy attorney general serving under Janet Reno, he oversaw the seizure of Elian Gonzalez, a seven-year-old whose mother had died in an effort to escape Cuba and find sanctuary in the United States.  Holder was doing what he had to do after a court ruled that Gonzalez be returned to his father in Cuba, but I thought then and still do that Gonzalez should have been allowed to remain with his U.S. relatives.

Who Forced Eric Holder Out?  On Thursday, September 25, Eric Holder announced that he would step down as Attorney General of the United States.  If you are a regular reader of the Weekly Update, you know that since the day he was appointed to office, Judicial Watch has battled day in and day out to prevent Holder from continuing to corrupt the Department of Justice (DOJ).  And, in fact, in January of this year, we named him to the Judicial Watch list of the "Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians" for the sixth year in a row.  Many quickly credited Judicial Watch's work with helping to force Holder out.

Justice Department expected to ban profiling by federal law enforcement.  The Justice Department is expected to ban profiling by federal law enforcement.  Counter-terror investigators would be barred from undercover operations in mosques or other religious institutions unless there is reason to believe criminal activity is going on there, under a new policy expected within weeks.  The new rules would ban profiling based on religion, ethnicity or sexual orientation and includes no exemption for national security investigations, the Los Angeles Times reports.  The announcement of the new policy to crack down on law enforcement profiling was delayed for several months because of White House concerns over national security implications.

Ana Marie Cox: Holder Worst AG for Journalists in Decades.  The Daily Beast's Ana Marie Cox criticized Attorney General Eric Holder [9/27/2014] for his record on civil liberties and dubbed him "the worst Attorney General for journalists, probably in decades" on Saturday's "Up with Steve Kornacki" on MSNBC.

Motto of the Obama Administration: A Nation of Cowards.  The Obama administration entrusted the most important cases of our nation to an attorney general who held the people he was hired to represent in contempt.  Presidential administrations have mottos.  Theodore Roosevelt spoke softly but carried a big stick; John Kennedy pointed to new frontiers and self-sacrifice; Lyndon Johnson spoke of a great society.  As Eric Holder departs, in order to recover from his verbal abuse of the American people, his insult needs to be viewed as the motto of the Obama administration.

CAIR: Holder Did 'Very Little' to Address 'Harassment of Muslim Communities' by Law Enforcement.  The Council on American-Islamic Relations reacted to Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation announcement by calling on him to do more before he leaves office.

The Moral Failures of Eric Holder.  Eric Holder's left many baleful legacies:  being censured by the House of Representatives; withholding subpoenaed documents, proving untruthful about a failed gun-walking caper in Mexico; failing to enforce laws on the books, from immigration to the elements of the Affordable Care Act; illegally billing the government for his own private use of a government Gulfstream jet; snooping on Associated Press reporters; giving de facto exemptions to renegade IRS politicos; and trying to create civilian trials for terrorist killers like KSM, one of the architects of the 9/11 attacks.  But he will be known mostly for re-teaching Americans to think of race as essential, not incidental, to our characters.

Eric Holder's political justice.  Upon Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation last week, NBC's Chuck Todd made an odd comment:  "[W]hat's interesting about him, he is a very non-political person."  There may be merit to saying Holder has been more ideological than political, but it still seems like a strange thing to say about him.  After all, his most famous act before his tenure as Attorney General had been to help arrange President Bill Clinton's highly unusual and controversial last minute pardon of a wanted fugitive — mega-donor and billionaire Marc Rich.  Holder not only recommended the pardon (calling himself "neutral leaning favorable") but was also careful not to inform his colleagues at the Clinton Justice Department until it was too late to stop it.

Ugly Senate fight could await Obama's attorney general nominee.  President Obama has a pretty obvious deadline for nominating a successor to departing Attorney General Eric Holder.  If Democrats lose control of the Senate in November, they'll still run things until newly-elected members arrive in January.  So just to be safe, if the president wants guaranteed confirmation of a new attorney general, he'll need to pick one soon.  That way, even if Republicans win the Senate, and even if Obama's choice is unpopular with the GOP, lame-duck Democrats will still be able to steamroll the opposition and confirm a new Attorney General.  But it could be very, very ugly.  The White House claims there is ample precedent for a lame-duck nomination.  In fact, it's more complicated than that.

I thought he resigned last week.
Holder urges tech companies to leave device backdoors open for police.  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that new forms of encryption capable of locking law enforcement officials out of popular electronic devices imperil investigations of kidnappers and sexual predators, putting children at increased risk.

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This appears to be Holder's half-baked logic:  If you don't leave your company's products wide open to police snooping, warrantless or otherwise, then you are abetting criminals.

Holder Demonized State Attempts to Ensure Honest Elections.  Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious:  the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.  As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious:  Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.

To Better Protect Muslims, AG Holder Set To Ban 'Religious Profiling'.  If one is looking for reasons why Washington has become so caustic, divisive and bitter, look no further than retiring Attorney General Eric Holder.  If reports first published by the Los Angeles Times are correct, the always controversial Holder, aged 63, will soon announce a new and permanent ban on so-called 'religious profiling' designed to better protect those suspected of jihadist or Islamist activities from federal surveillance.

Wanted: An attorney general committed to the Constitution.  It is no secret that the Obama administration has demonstrated questionable commitment to the rule of law.  It has undermined the separation of powers by disregarding congressional enactments while pushing executive power far beyond its constitutional boundaries.  It has further undermined limited government by disregarding federalism and pushing Washington-knows-best legislation that far exceeds anything the Founding Fathers could have conceived.

Eric Holder's Top 10 Rule-of-Law Violations.  In light of my two lists of President Obama's top 10 constitutional violations — for 2011 and 2013 — a few readers have asked me to follow up on my short statement about Attorney General Eric Holder's tenure by putting together a list for him.  I had started thinking about that, but then came across this item by Hans von Spakovsky (who co-authored with John Fund a book on Holder's missteps), which details Holder's "7 Worst Actions as Attorney General."

House Oversight Committee Pursues New Contempt Charges, Fines, And Possibly Jail Time For Holder.  The House Oversight Committee is pursuing another contempt of court charge, and possibly a daily monetary fine, and jail time for outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder unless he complies with a court order to release certain Fast and Furious documents.

Obama's Master Plan With Eric Holder.  Last week, I discussed how I believe Rush Limbaugh was right in saying that Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation is not in any way a simple bon voyage.  Rather, it is a deliberate ploy to maneuver him into an even greater place of influence, possibly even the Supreme Court.  The most obvious replacement on the Supreme Court is liberal-leaning Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  She was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1993 by President Bill Clinton with a 96-3 Senate vote, something she admits today would never happen because of her liberal voting record and her connection with the American Civil Liberties Union.  Indeed, she is hailed as the Supreme Court's liberal leader, even hugging President Barack Obama before the nation as if he were her own son.

'Commish' Eric Holder to make D.C. the 51st state?  President Obama is being urged to make outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder the head of a commission to make Washington, D.C., the 51st state.  "No one would be better suited to promote fresh thinking on how to give his fellow Washingtonians the rights to which they are entitled," cheered the Washington Post in a Tuesday [10/7/2014] editorial.

What's all this about a 51st state?

Department of Injustice.  [Scroll down]  As 97 percent of the 99.5 percent found guilty are intimidated by the manipulation of the plea-bargain system into pleading guilty to spare the state the irritation of a trial, the defendants accept the abandonment of 147 of the 153 counts against them, plead guilty, and are rehearsed in a catechetical process by the prosecutors to accuse themselves of cowardice, hypocrisy, sociopathic turpitude, and often outright evil, and profess their gratitude for the sentence they are about to receive.  It smacks of nothing so much as the Stalin system of torturing the innocent until, to spare their families, they proclaimed their guilt, fulminated an allocution of coruscating self-loathing and self-righteously bellowed their demand to be executed immediately, and were led away by Stalin's obliging jurists, and often dispatched, mercifully in the circumstances, in the basement of the courthouse.

Judicial Watch President: Holder Resigned Over Judge's Fast & Furious Ruling.  Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton says he has "no doubt" that a Sept. 23 federal court order requiring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to turn over an index of documents relating to the Fast and Furious scandal by October 22 prompted the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder two days later.  "There's no doubt the writing was on the wall between Fast and Furious and the IRS scandal circling around the Justice Department.  He did not want to be a person of interest in Washington discussions when more information about Fast and Furious came out," Fitton told CNSNews.com.  "And the Washington way is that [when] bad things happen, get out of Dodge and hope everyone forgets."

Weeks after he supposedly resigned...
AG Eric Holder Says Feds to Recognize Gay Marriages in Seven More States.  Attorney General Eric Holder announced Friday [10/17/2014] that the federal government will recognize same-sex marriages in seven more states — Colorado, Indiana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.  "With their long-awaited unions, we are slowly drawing closer to full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans nationwide," Holder said.

Government Case Implodes as Its Former Lawyers Allege Fraud Against Holder's DOJ.  The New York Observer reports that two former Assistant United States Attorneys say the Holder Justice Department engaged in deceit and corruption of justice in connection with the DOJ's litigation against Sierra Pacific Industries, a California lumber company.  As a result of the allegations, a federal district judge has ordered the recusal from the case of every judge in the Eastern District of California.  He reasons that the court may have been defrauded by the government, thus requiring the appointment of an outside judge to handle the matter going forward.

Holder: Failure To Pass Gun Control Is My Biggest Failure.  Attorney General Eric Holder said that his biggest failure during his time as head of the Justice Department was failing to pass expanded gun control laws and criticized former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta for his negative characterizations of the president during an interview aired on Monday's [10/20/2014] broadcast of "The Lead" on CNN.  "I think the inability to pass reasonable gun safety laws after the Newtown massacre is, for me, something that I take personally as a failure, and something that I think we as a society should take as a failure" he stated when asked what he considered his greatest failure.

Eric Holder Is Really Sad He Was Unable To Disarm You Before Fleeing Office.  Eric Holder, the first sitting U.S. Attorney General ever found in criminal contempt of Congress, regrets that he was unable to strip Americans of the firearms that the citizens would find most useful in defending themselves from tyrannical government officials such as himself.

Holder "exasperated" about Ferguson investigation leaks.  Attorney General Eric Holder told Justice Department lawyers that he was "exasperated" about leaks from the federal investigation into last summer's police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in a St. Louis suburb, a Justice official told CBS News Thursday [10/23/2014].

New Evidence in Fast and Furious Scandal Reveals Why Eric Holder and Valerie Jarrett Should Both be in Jail.  New evidence obtained by government watchdog group, Judicial Watch, reveal that Obama's most trusted and loyal adviser, Valerie Jarrett, was managing Eric Holder's lies told to Congress in the Obama-Holder illegal Fast and Furious gun-running scandal, in which the regime was funneling American-made weapons into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

Valerie Jarrett Helped Manage Fallout Over Eric Holder's Changing Fast and Furious Testimony to Congress.  For years the White House has argued it had nothing to do with Operation Fast and Furious while it was active and certainly wasn't involved the fallout and cover-up that followed after Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in 2010 by Mexican bandits carrying guns from the lethal program.  Now years later, a Vaughn Index describing Fast and Furious documents being held from the American people and Congress under President Obama's assertion of executive privilege shows White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett played a key role in Attorney General Eric Holder's changing testimony to Congress.

Obama Caught Covering Up Emails In Fast And Furious Scandal For Eric Holder And His Family.  A government watchdog group announced Thursday [10/23/2014], after receiving information about the Fast and Furious operation, that President Obama asserted executive privilege to block emails sent between Attorney General Eric Holder and family members.  Early during President Obama's tenure, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) launched "Operation Fast and Furious," allowing thousands of firearms to be illegally sold in the hopes of tracking Mexican drug cartels.  United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed with one of those firearms in December of 2010.

An FBI October surprise dirty trick in South Dakota Senate race?  Why on earth would the FBI announce an "active" investigation potentially involving a GOP candidate for Senate just before the election?  If you answered, "Because Eric Holder's Justice Department supervises the FBI," you might be on to something.

Evidence of Why President Obama and Eric Holder Wanted Ferguson Missouri To Burn?  Democrats are using racial ads intended to stoke racial strife with images of Ferguson and Trayvon Martin[.]  But not all Democrats are happy with the transparent tactic.

AP demands Holder explain FBI's fake newspaper sting.  The FBI's use of a fake Associated Press news story to locate a suspect raises "constitutional concerns," the news organization wrote in a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday [10/30/2014].  A lawyer for the AP called on the Justice Department to vow never to impersonate the news outlet again and to specify what authority it used to justify the action.

Eric Holder is the First Attorney General in History Who Actively Supports Vote Fraud.  As "calibration errors" switch votes in Illinois and Maryland, an election watchdog group sues the latter over massive voting by noncitizens in one county after discovering voters registered in multiple states.  The fact that many people will do anything to get out of jury duty has exposed massive fraudulent voting in Frederick County, Md., that may have been going on for years.  Illegal aliens who stated they were noncitizens on jury duty forms were found to have cast votes in elections.

Eric Holder's final days: A bang, or a whimper?  Attorney General Eric Holder announced in late September that he would step down from office, leading to speculation as to whether America's top law enforcement officer will go quietly or if he will rush through last-minute, longstanding projects.  The most likely scenario, according to a few analysts, is that Holder's final days will be quiet, even dull.

Eric Holder Deploys Poll-Watchers to Look for 'Discrimination'.  Eric Holder's Department of Justice is sending teams of federal monitors to 18 states to "watch for discrimination against voters." The list of states appears completely random: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin.  DOJ can't possibly have the manpower to cover more than a relative handful of precincts in those 18 states, so one wonders what the point is.

Holder Sends 'Election Monitors' to Polls.  Attorney General Eric Holder is dispatching "federal election monitors" to polls tomorrow [11/4/2014] for Election Day.  "As Americans across the country prepare to vote in tomorrow's midterm elections, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice has dispatched federal monitors to polling places around the country," reads the press release from the Department of Justice.

The integrity of the ballot is in the very best of hands.  Attorney General Eric Holder is sending "poll watchers" to 16 states to make sure there's no "discrimination" against voters.  Meanwhile, the George Soros-funded group Common Cause is also sending poll watchers across the country to insure that there's plenty of work for Democratic lawyers who see GOP perfidy under every bed and behind every corner.  The integrity of the vote is in the very best of hands.

Holder & EPA Ding Carmaker $350 Million for Climate Change.  In sensational language, Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the biggest enforcement action ever against a greenhouse gas violator, as the federal government penalized automaker Hyundai Group up to $350 million. [...] What did they do to deserve the biggest spanking since the Supreme Court, in 2007, gave the EPA power to regulate greenhouse gases?  Hyundai Group overestimated the miles-per-gallon rating in about a quarter of their Kia and Hyundai models.

'Election Eve Dump:' Eric Holder Releases Fast and Furious Documents That Got Him Cited for Contempt.  Justice Department officials provided House investigators with thousands of documents related to Operation Fast and Furious that President Obama had previously claimed were exempt from congressional review.  In an "election eve dump," as House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) put it, DOJ handed over 64,280 pages of documents, a release that is still only a partial fulfillment of the committee's request.  "This production is nonetheless a victory for the legislative branch, a victory for transparency, and a victory for efforts to check Executive Branch power," Issa said of the release.

Holder [profane and vulgar] in Newly Released Emails.  The Wall Street Journal today [11/7/2014] reported on more emails the Justice Department handed over to the House Oversight Committee, and one of them shows Eric Holder getting a bit profane and testy with critics over the Fast and Furious scandal.  In a previous email released this week, the attorney general trashed House Oversight Committee chair Darrell Issa and his "idiot cronies" making this investigation all about politics.

New attorney general must shun Holder's naked partisanship.  Ms. Lynch has been the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York since President Clinton put her there in 1999.  Sen. Charles E. Schumer has been her champion, and he recommended that Mr. Obama keep her a decade later.  She was tipped for bigger things.

Ex-FBI Official: Holder's Ferguson Comments Created 'Rift' With Law Enforcement.  Attorney General Eric Holder's comments following the fatal shooting of a black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri created a "significant rift" between law enforcement and the Department of Justice (DOJ) that Holder's successor will have to repair, says a former assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  "We look forward to Loretta Lynch's confirmation hearings to become the [next] attorney general, but there's no time to rejoice.  Significant damage has been done and there is much work ahead to undo it," said Ron Hosko, who is now president of the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF), a group that provides financial assistance to "wrongfully accused/charged law enforcement officers."

Former FBI Assistant Director Slams Holder as "Chief Among Antagonists" in Ferguson.  As the Senate prepares to hold confirmation hearings for new Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch and as outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder continues to allocate Department of Justice resources to the situation in Ferguson, former FBI Assistant Director and Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund President Ron Hosko has sent a scathing letter to President Obama detailing the damage done to the relationship between law enforcement and DOJ over the past six years.

Holder Takes Death Penalty off Table for Gang Members Charged with Killing Cop.  On November 14, federal prosecutors made it clear that Attorney General Eric Holder has "taken the death penalty off the table" for four men charged in the gang-related murder of Waynesboro, Virginia, police officer, Captain Kevin Quick. [...] Prosecutor Timothy J. Heaphy says Holder is responsible for making the call on death penalty cases.

Eric Holder Sides With Alleged Cop Killers, Again.  Last week former Assistant FBI Director Ron Hosko, who now leads the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund, sent a scathing letter to President Obama about the broken relationship between DOJ and law enforcement across the country under Holder's leadership and used the situation in Ferguson, Missouri as an example.

Holder Tells Law Enforcement to Behave.  Ahead of the grand jury in Ferguson announcing whether it will indict a police officer for killing a man in Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General Eric Holder has released a video announcement telling law enforcement to behave.  "The Justice Department encourages law enforcement officials, in every jurisdiction, to work with the communities they serve to minimize needless confrontation," Holder says.

The Justice Department Becomes a Schoolyard Bully in Wisconsin.  It is as remarkable as it is repulsive, the ingenuity with which the Obama administration uses the regulatory state's intricacies to advance progressivism's project of breaking nongovernmental institutions to government's saddle.  Eager to sacrifice low-income children to please teachers unions, the Justice Department wants to destroy Wisconsin's school choice program.  Feigning concern about access for disabled children, the department aims to handicap all disadvantaged children by denying their parents access to school choices of the sort affluent government lawyers enjoy.

Confirmed: Eric Holder's Rogue DOJ Targeted CBS News Reporter Sharyl Attkisson.  Fast and Furious, along with Benghazi, is one of the two "phony" administration scandals that produced body bags, and former CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson is responsible for much of the truth-telling about both.  That fact is enough to put her high atop the administration's enemies list.  Attkisson, a casualty of liberal media bias, resigned from CBS in March after a series of clashes between her and her bosses over her exposes of administration wrongdoing and its subsequent cover-ups.  An email thread obtained by government watchdog Judicial Watch show just how upset Eric Holder's Justice Department and the White House were over Attkisson's reporting and how hard they tried to undermine her. [...] For the White House and DOJ, control of the press was a must.  They couldn't have a "mainstream" reporter spilling the beans.

Holder: We're Not Done Investigating Ferguson Police Officer Yet.  Attorney General Eric Holder emphasized Monday night [11/24/2014] that while a St. Louis grand jury chose not to indict Officer Darren Wilson, the Justice Department's investigation isn't over yet.  "While the grand jury proceeding in St. Louis County has concluded, the Justice Department's investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown remains ongoing," Holder said in a statement Monday night.  "Though we have shared information with local prosecutors during the course of our investigation, the federal inquiry has been independent of the local one from the start, and remains so now."

The Editor says...
Sounds like double jeopardy to me.  Mr. Holder pretends to know something that the grand jury did not.

Eric Holder: We Must 'Seize' the 'Unique Opportunity' Ferguson Presents.  On Monday evening, Attorney General Eric Holder told activists and law enforcement officials in Atlanta that Ferguson presents an opportunity to deal with issues like racial injustice and the perception that police treat minorities unfairly before announcing that new federal standards against racial profiling are on the way.  "This presents this nation with, I think, a unique opportunity," Holder said, according to CNN.  "And I think it's incumbent on all of us to seize this opportunity to deal with issues that for too long have been ignored."

Holder's Bank of America Heist Funds Left's Community-Organizer Shock Troops.  Government coercion of the financial sector to make irresponsible loans was the primary driver of the 2007-08 financial meltdown.  Yet, as we've previously observed here, "Washington has searched every place but within for a scapegoat" — with the Obama Justice Department pursuing politically motivated investigations, prosecutions, and civil lawsuits against banks and credit rating agencies in order to concoct a history that blames predatory lending rather than statist policy.

Watch Sheriff David Clarke Destroy Eric Holder, Al Sharpton For Fanning Ferguson Flames.  Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke gained notoriety last year after releasing a series of radio advertisements encouraging people to arm themselves for self defense purposes.  He just won a tough re-election battle in Wisconsin.  Now, Clarke is calling out Attorney General Eric Holder in a big way for his meddling in Ferguson in the case of Officer Darren Wilson and Michael Brown.

Black Racist Group Plotted Bombing, Assassination but Charged with Gun Crime.  The communist and racist New Black Panther Party plotted to bomb St. Louis' Gateway Arch and assassinate local law enforcement officials, but the Justice Department so far has limited its prosecution of the group to an indictment of two members on minor gun charges.  The soft treatment for activities that normally would have brought federal terrorism charges appears to be part of efforts by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Justice Department to "go soft" on the racist group, according to former Justice official J. Christian Adams.

Eric Holder And His Little Racially-Tinged Federal Civil Rights Investigations.  The shooting incident in Mobile, is eerily similar to the Ferguson case, in that a police officer shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old white man, who just so happened to be high on drugs.  In this case, a grand jury was also called to look into the shooting, but against pressure by the public to indict the black officer, the jury did not levy charges against the police officer.  Is this racial hypocrisy by Obama and Holder?

What's Really Going on with Holder's Civil-Rights Crusade against Police Departments.  Civil-rights investigations in Ferguson and Staten Island?  No, what denizens of St. Louis and New York City ought to be worried about right now is ... the crime wave overtaking Seattle.  If you don't understand why, then you probably thought Obamacare was about covering the uninsured.  Like its health-care "reform" campaign, the Obama Left's civil-rights crusade is about control — central control of state law enforcement by Washington.

James O'Keefe Files Bar Complaints Against DOJ Lawyers.  James O'Keefe has filed an ethics complaint with various bar associations against Department of Justice Civil Rights attorney Karla Dobinski and three others arising out of a prosecution of police officers in New Orleans. [...] Dobinski was in charge of the taint team in the prosecution of New Orleans polices officers on civil rights charges in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.  The taint team was responsible for protecting the constitutional rights of the accused police officers.  It was responsible for ensuring that evidence obtained in the local internal affairs investigation did not make its way into the criminal prosecution.

Eric Holder believes all cops are racists, targets 'unconscious bias'.  Following the Eric Garner verdict, New York cops can look forward to having their heads examined for "unconscious bias" by federal thought police unleashed by Attorney General Eric Holder.  The NYPD can expect to undergo the same kind of "de-biasing" training that Holder put departments in Seattle, New Orleans, St. Louis and several other cities through while investigating them for alleged civil rights violations.

What's Really Going on with Holder's Civil-Rights Crusade against Police Departments.  [Scroll down]  Seattle is another of the big cities that has been snagged by the DOJ.  It has been under a consent decree since the Justice Department targeted it in 2012 for a "pattern or practice" of violations, allegedly including "subjecting individuals to excessive force" — in particular, "using excessive force against persons of color," and "escalating situations and using excessive force when arresting individuals for minor offenses."

Former DOJ Lawyer: Obama and Holder Endanger Criminal Justice System.  Hans von Spakovsky, writing in The National Interest, makes a powerful case that Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have endangered the criminal justice system in their response to the Ferguson grand jury's verdict.  Spakovsky writes, "Perhaps the biggest problem with the reaction of President Obama and his attorney general, Eric Holder, to the grand jury verdict in Ferguson is their non-support for the difficult work of the grand jury.  That and their support for the mistaken proposition that the administration of justice is unfair, biased, and prejudiced towards 'communities of color' undermine our criminal justice system."

How Eric Holder spun the 'Fast and Furious' scandal to a lapdog media.  The general news media met the recent release of 42,000 pages of government documents, withheld for more than two years under President Obama's one and only invocation of executive privilege, with a predictable-yet-inexcusable yawn.  The documents relate to the Justice Department case "Fast and Furious" in which federal agents secretly facilitated delivery of thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels.  The story was so significant that independent judges awarded it top investigative reporting honors two years straight.  Yet many in the popular news media had declared it a political scandal of little consequence.

Eric Holder: It's a 'Good Thing' Athletes Wear 'I Can't Breathe' Shirts.  During a quick interview with the Chicago Sun-Times, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder approved of the pro athletes supporting the Eric Garner protestors by wearing "I Can't Breathe" shirts, singling out LeBron James and Derrick Rose in particular for lending their star power to the protests.  The shirts, which made their way into the hands of the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers during a high-profile game last week (attended by the Royal Couple and also Will and Kate), had to be smuggled into the Barclays Center after the NBA requested that players not wear the t-shirts during warmups.

Holder Decrees Crossdressing Protected Under Federal Law.  Attorney General Eric Holder has issued an edict, through a memorandum, that cross dressing and transsexualism is now protected under federal civil rights laws which were designed to protect women from sex discrimination.  Existing federal law provides no statutory support for treating cross-dressers and transsexuals as the law treats female victims of discrimination.  This means that the Justice Department could now, for example, consider the decision by a school or church to not hire a transvestite as a violation of federal law.

Eric Holder's Transgendered Mutilation of Title VII.  [Eric] Holder's reference to "a different sex" is badly confused and odd.  A man who identifies as a woman — yes, even a man who butchers and drugs himself to appear more like a woman — is still a man.  Indeed, when anyone points out this elementary biological reality, transgender activists insist that gender is fundamentally different from sex.  Holder states that the federal government's "approach to this issue has ... evolved over time."  That's his way of acknowledging that his position is directly contrary to the position that DOJ had previously taken.  As Christian Adams points out, Holder is instead following the dubious lead of the reckless adventurists at the EEOC.  And while Holder states that "courts have reached varying conclusions" on the issue, his citations reveal that he's adopting the position taken by a federal district judge over that taken by a federal court of appeals.

Critics say 'anti-cop rhetoric' of Eric Holder, Bill de Blasio may have led to NY police deaths.  The shocking, cold-blooded murder of two New York City police officers Saturday has raised fresh questions about whether prominent Democrats — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. in particular — have gone too far in their criticism of law enforcement and, at least in part, caused this weekend's brutal slayings.  Former New York Gov. George Pataki, for example, tweeted that Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Holder have used "divisive anti-cop rhetoric" and, in turn, helped inspire Saturday's shooter.

Gangbangers Unbound.  [Scroll down]  This contention has set the agenda for the past twenty years of the racial debate.  Measures taken to control crime are presented as ipso facto evidence of "systemic" or "institutional" racism.  Both Obama and Holder, along with the vast majority of their contemporaries in both government and media, are true believers in this ideological construct.  This can be clearly seen in both serious racial incidents exploited by the administration, the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown shootings.

Taxpayers Fund Legal Group With Role in Rap Video About Killing Police Officers.  The Obama administration's Justice Department funneled at least $1.5 million in grants to a New York legal-aid group featured in a new rap video that depicts two young black men aiming handguns at a white police officer.  Some may find the lyrics eerily similar to the social media postings of the man accused of shooting and killing two New York City police officers execution-style in Brooklyn on Saturday.

Holder and Obama are making race relations worse, inflaming hatred.  A Pew Research Center poll found that only 40% of Americans approve of the way Obama is handling race relations.  Black approval is down to 57%, while approval among whites is down to 33%.  More young people under age 30, the age group who were most enthusiastic about electing the nation's first African-American president, now disapprove of his performance on racial issues than approve.  And Eric Holder has one of the lowest approval ratings of any public official.

Sick Political Theater.  The events in Ferguson, Missouri are the latest example of sick political theater, carefully orchestrated to shape public policy. [...] Eric Holder knows every detail of the eyewitness testimony and he knows the physical evidence.  He knows, but he doesn't care.  He has a role to play in this sick, political drama and the facts will not change his role in any way.  He and the ever-present, ever-despicable, race-baiters like Sharpton and Jackson throw Molotov cocktails of racial division into the crowds.

Even the Thoroughly Politicized DOJ Reluctantly Admits it Can't Find Reason to Charge Darren Wilson.  It would seem that even the most corrupt Attorney General in modern American history (surpassing John Mitchell, in my view) couldn't find a reason to charge Officer Darren Wilson of the beleaguered Ferguson P.D.  Say, maybe it was the videotape of the "Gentle Giant" ripping off a convenience store and roughing up the owner.  And all of the physical evidence at the scene.  And the witnesses of every race that backed up Wilson's story.  Et cetera.

Holder on the hot seat: Senators demand answers on U.S. fugitives in Cuba.  A group of Senate Republicans pressed Attorney General Eric H. Holder on Friday [1/23/2015] to explain the administration's policy for U.S. fugitives in Cuba, including a convicted cop killer, following President Obama's announced normalization of relations with the communist island nation.  "As the nation's chief law enforcement officer, do you support the normalization of relations with Cuba without the return of fugitives from justice for prosecution who have the blood of Americans, including law enforcement officers on their hands?" said the three senators in a letter to Mr. Holder.

The Questions Loretta Lynch Needs to Answer.  Some of the actions and statements of Eric Holder during his years in office have made a mockery of principled law enforcement, yet there has been little to stop him.  Congressional oversight, embarrassing unpopularity, and repeated 9-0 Supreme Court decisions against the DOJ's extreme legal positions have done little to alter the leftward course of this most powerful of federal agencies.  Holder has held nobody at the Justice Department accountable for scandal after scandal, from the unjustified dismissal of the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case to the reckless Operation Fast and Furious program and the criminal targeting of reporters for alleged leaks.  Even finding Holder in criminal contempt of Congress for his refusal to provide documentation to which Congress is entitled has failed to constrain him.

Criminal Conspiracy Allegations Strike Highest Levels of DOJ.  David Codrea helped break the "Fast and Furious" gun-running plot, and so it should be not surprise that he's breaking the news of what appears to be an even bigger scandal alleging a criminal conspiracy at the top levels of Obama's Justice Department.

The Scandals at Justice.  [Scroll down]  Another federal prosecutor, Eric Overby, left the Midnight Fire probe in 2011 because he was shocked at the conduct of his colleagues.  In Sierra Pacific's brief he is quoted as saying:  "In my entire career, yes, my entire career, I have never seen anything like this.  Never."  He says that as he left he told his colleagues:  "It's called the Department of Justice.  It's not called the Department of Revenue." [...] What's inexcusable is that Justice has ignored the message of a 1935 Supreme Court opinion that ruled that Justice's interest is not "that it shall win a case, but that Justice shall be done."

Dangerous Words From Democrats on Jobs.  Today [1/29/2015], a video clip from Loretta Lynch's confirmation hearing in the Senate has been making the rounds.  The video, taken while she is being examined by Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to determine her fitness to serve on Obama's Cabinet as Attorney General, replacing Eric Holder who still holds the job despite being held in Contempt of Congress and having resigned months ago.

Liberal GW Professor: Obama Guilty of 'Violations of His Oath of Office'.  At the Attorney General Nomination Hearing for Loretta Lynch, George Washington University Law School professor and nationally recognized legal scholar Jonathan Turley, scathingly rebuked actions taken by President Obama and current Attorney General Eric Holder, saying that the "Justice Department is at the epicenter of a constitutional crisis."

Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder Takes Parting Shot at Republicans.  In what was likely one of his last news conferences as head of the Justice Department, outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder today accused Republican critics of being "a little irresponsible" last week during Senate hearings to vet his likely replacement.  He said many of the questions posed to nominee Loretta Lynch and other witnesses over two days were "not particularly relevant" to Lynch's qualifications, and a "notion that somehow or another this Justice Department has been politicized" seemed to "permeate that hearing both the first day and the second day."

Eric Holder: I fixed George W. Bush's partisan Justice Department.  Attorney General Eric Holder pushed back against Republicans who said the Justice Department, under his leadership, had become little more than a political machine to push liberal causes — and said that he's actually cleaned up all the politicking that had taken place under the former Bush administration.

Eric Holder's Justice Department rocked by nepotism charges.  The head of a Justice Department law enforcement office used his position to secure a job for his son and other relatives, the agency's internal watchdog said Wednesday [2/4/2015], the latest in a string of reports that have repeatedly found examples of nepotism at the department.

Guantanamo adviser: DOJ allowed Pentagon to bypass Congress in Taliban-Bergdahl swap.  Eric Holder's Justice Department green-lighted the decision not to notify Congress — as required by law — before the Pentagon traded five Taliban fighters for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl last year, the Obama administration's point person on Guantanamo Bay policy testified Thursday [2/5/2015].  Speaking to the Senate Armed Services Committee, defense official Brian McKeon was questioned on what is still a sore spot for many members of Congress:  that the administration went forward with the Taliban-Bergdahl swap without giving Congress the typically required 30-day notification.

House Investigators: DOJ Forced Banks to Donate to Left-Wing Groups.  Justice Department officials forced Bank of America and Citigroup to donate to left-wing activist groups as part of a deal to end an investigation into the banks' policies leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, according to congressional investigators. [...] The settlements were hailed as landmark deals that would help people who lost money in the 2008 financial crisis.

Justice Department watchdog report charges nepotism at Interpol office.  A new report by the Justice Department inspector general's office has claimed that the executive officer at Interpol's Washington D.C. office used his position to secure work for his son and other relatives and acquaintances.  In a report released Wednesday [2/4/2015], the Justice Department watchdog found that other high-ranking agency officials had also used their position to help get internships for people they know, contributing to what it called "a pervasive culture of nepotism and favoritism."

Eric Holder: Politicize the Department of Justice, moi?  Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder seems determined to leave 'em laughing.  How else can we interpret his claim earlier this week that there has "been no politicization" of the Justice Department under his watch? [...] The Department of Justice's own Inspector General found that one office in that division "passed over candidates who had stellar academic credentials with some of the best law firms in the country" in order to hire others they preferred, a majority of whom came from just five advocacy organizations that are political allies of the Obama administration.

Eric Holder: Inability to Pass Gun Control My 'Single Failure'.  On Sunday [2/8/2015], MSNBC aired Melissa Harris-Perry's interview of Attorney General Eric Holder and he said the "single failure" of his tenure as AG was the failure to secure gun control. [...] He did not address the resounding defeat Americans dealt to gun control and gun control candidates during the 2014 midterm elections.

The Disgraceful Exit of Eric Holder.  Disgraced Obama Administration Attorney General Eric Holder is leaving office under the cloud of scandal... but you wouldn't know it from the way reporters are mentioning his exit.  Holder is the first Attorney General in U.S. history to be held in criminal contempt by the House of Representatives.  Holder earned his contempt charge for refusing to turn over documents related to the investigation of the Fast and Furious gun running plot that saw the ATF and DOJ run thousands of guns to the Sinaloa drug cartel.  The continuing investigation into Fast and Furious suggests the possibility of criminal conspiracy within the Department of Justice to withhold evidence of who authorized the gun-running plot, and who ondoned the order to supply the cartel with firearms.

Small Justice.  Eric Holder's divisive tenure at the Justice Department is coming to a close, in at least one area, on a somewhat positive note.  Last month, the outgoing attorney general announced that he would scale back the Justice Department's "equitable sharing" program, under which state and local police forces could use federal law to seize property and assets from citizens without charging them with crimes.  When operating on federal mandates, the police departments kept up to 80 percent of the seized assets, while federal agencies "adopted" the rest.  "With this new policy, effective immediately, the Justice Department is taking an important step to prohibit federal agency adoptions of state and local seizures, except for public safety reasons," Holder said.

It's the Virgins, Stupid.  Eric Holder is planning conferences on the root causes of terrorism.  That was his excuse for sitting out the "I am Charlie" demonstrations, even though he was in Paris at the time.  That was a non sequitur, of course.  No reason why you can't do both.  But there was a bigger story here.  Why was the Attorney General representing us?  I can see why the President wasn't there.  He didn't want to run into Bibi Netanyahu.  Plus he has a major problem condemning terrorism.  But the Attorney General?

Eric Holder Blames Fox News For Concern About 'Radical Islam'.  Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder mocked Fox News at the National Press Club Tuesday for talking so much about the Obama administration's refusal to use the term "radical Islam."  HOLDER:  Whenever you're getting criticized by both sides, it probably means you're probably getting right.  We spend more time, more time talking about what you call it, as opposed to what do you do about it, you know?  I mean really.  If Fox didn't talk about this, they would have nothing else to talk about, it seems to me.
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Attorney General Eric Holder calls for states to stop death penalty until Supreme Court decides.  Attorney General Eric Holder called on states to temporarily pause death penalty executions on Tuesday [2/17/2015], until the Supreme Court decides a case about the controversial drug cocktails used for lethal injects in some states.

NYT Journalist James Risen Rips Holder: He's Sent a Message to Dictators That It's Okay To Jail Journalists.  New York Times investigative reporter James Risen has been embroiled in an ugly court battle with the Department of Justice for years (including prior to the Obama administration).  DOJ and Attorney General Eric Holder have been fighting with the power of the federal government to get him thrown in jail and have gone to extensive lengths to find out who his sources are.  Yesterday [2/17/2015], Holder attended a free press event at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. where he claimed to know the importance of a free press in a properly functioning democracy and that the administration has gone easy on whistleblowers and leakers.  The opposite is true.

Eric Holder: 'We're Not at a Time of War'.  The Attorney General tells reporters that the U.S. isn't at war against ISIS — never mind all those airstrikes, and all those troops deployed in Iraq.

The Liberal Circus.  Attorney General Eric Holder came into office alleging racism and calling the American people cowards, and six years later is exiting, still blaming racism for his own self-inflicted failures.  In between, Holder became the first attorney general to be cited for contempt by Congress.  He stonewalled the Fast and Furious investigations.  His plans to try terrorists in federal civilian courts were tabled almost immediately.  He ordered electronic taps and surveillance on the communications of Associated Press and Fox reporters for supposed leaks.  He ignored wrongdoing in the IRS mess, a scandal that continues to grow.  He got caught using his government jet to take his daughters and their boyfriends to the Belmont Stakes.  But Holder will be remembered largely for his racialist tenure.  He dropped a strong case of voting intimidation by armed Black Panthers at the polls.  In congressional testimony, he referred to blacks as "my people"; anyone else — except Joe Biden — who had said the same would have been asked to resign.

Holder snubs Fox, refuses exit interview.  Outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder has denied Fox News the chance to interview him as he leaves his position, even as he grants interviews to many of its competitors, the network said Thursday [2/26/2015].  "We learned today that Attorney General Eric Holder has conducted interviews with ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Politico, while excluding FOX News," said Fox's executive vice president for news, Michael Clemente, in a statement.  "The Attorney General's decision does a deep disservice to America's largest cable news audience and the interests of a free press."

Eric Holder's parting shot: It's too hard to bring civil rights cases.  Attorney General Eric Holder plans to push, during his final weeks in office, a new standard of proof for civil-rights offenses, saying in an exit interview with POLITICO that such a change would make the federal government "a better backstop" against discrimination in cases like Ferguson and Trayvon Martin.  In a lengthy discussion ranging from his own exposure to the civil rights movement of the '60s to today's controversies surrounding the shootings of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, Holder also acknowledged that he felt some of his own struggles with Republicans in Congress during his six years in office were driven partly by race.

Eric Holder hits American conservatives for using race against him in exit interview.  Attorney General Eric Holder suggested Friday [2/27/2015] that the Obama administration's opponents have in part staked out their positions because he and the president are black.  'There have been times when I thought that's at least a piece of it,' he said.  But it's 'hard to look into people's minds, you know, their hearts.'  The graceless exit interview will become grist for conservatives who remain convinced that Holder has used race issues to deflect attention from legitimate criticisms.

Tearful Obama bids Holder farewell.  A tearful President Obama on Friday [2/27/2015] bid goodbye to outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, one of his closest friends in the administration.  "I'll just come out and say it — he has been one of our finest," Obama said at the Justice Department, where Holder's official portrait was unveiled.

Eric Holder's Parting Advice to America: 'Read Malcolm X'.  President Obama's outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder made an eyebrow-raising book recommendation in his exit interview with Politico on Friday [2/27/2015].  Asked by Politico's Mike Allen to name the one book Holder would recommend for a young man coming to Washington to read, Holder recommended the work of controversial civil rights figure Malcolm X.

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I guess that's a question that should have come up during Mr. Holder's confirmation hearings years ago.  Malcolm X, a/k/a El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was a Muslim and a troublemaker.*  That's Eric Holder's standard.

Lawyer: Department of Justice Shut Down Search For Lois Lerner's Emails.  The Department of Justice blocked an attempt to force the Internal Revenue Service to search for Lois Lerner's missing emails at off-site storage facilities, according to a lawyer pushing to obtain the emails.  The IRS never looked for Lerner's backup email tapes at the West Virginia storage facility where they were being housed.  Treasury deputy inspector general Timothy Camus told Congress that the IRS never asked IT professionals at the New Martinsville, W.V. storage site for the backup tapes.  Camus only found the backup tape for Lerner's missing 2011 emails about two weeks ago.

Holder's Damaging 'Disparate Impact' Gambit.  Eric Holder's Justice Department is about to charge the Ferguson Police Department with racial bias, reports the New York Times.  The Ferguson police will then face a choice: Agree to costly and cumbersome oversight by Justice Department lawyers, none of whom have any experience with policing, or fight the federal government in court, also at enormous expense.  The consequences for Ferguson will be bad enough, but the Justice Department could be creating a new legal standard for policing that will hurt public safety nationwide.

Petraeus Is Protected by a Politicized Justice Department.  [Scroll down]  Had he not negotiated a plea, Petraeus should have been charged in a multi-count indictment.  If he wanted to dispose of the case without a trial that would have further disgraced him, he should have been required to plead guilty to at least one felony count and to have admitted his lies to government officials — misrepresentations that, under the sentencing guidelines that apply to people who don't get special treatment, instruct judges to impose a term of incarceration.  Petraeus, instead, will get a slap on the wrist.

Holder Frames Ferguson PD For Racism Using Bogus 'Disparate Impact' Stats.  Unable to pin racism charges on Ferguson policeman Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown, Attorney General Eric Holder is using half-baked data to manufacture a case of racism against his entire police force.

Holder: I'm Prepared to Dismantle the Ferguson Police Force.  Despite a Justice Department report clearing police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, Attorney General Eric Holder says he will do everything he can to change the law enforcement culture in Ferguson, Mo.  If he feels the need to, Holder says he will seek to dismantle the Ferguson Police Department.

Holder: I'm Prepared To Dismantle Ferguson PD, If Necessary.  Attorney General Eric Holder is convinced that there's major problems within the Ferguson Police Department, and he's willing to dismantle the entire force if necessary.  In an interview with Friday's White House pool reporter on the Department of Justice's critical Ferguson report, Holder said, "We are prepared to use all the powers that we have... to ensure that the situation changes there.  That means everything from working with them to coming up with an entirely new structure."

Threats to Voting Rights Remain, Selma Gathering Is Told.  [Eric] Holder spoke at ceremonies before veterans of the civil rights era and ordinary citizens who gathered here [3/8/2015] for a commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 50th anniversary of a violent confrontation between the police and protesters that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.  "It has been clear in recent years that fair and free access to the franchise is still, in some areas, under siege," said Mr. Holder, speaking at Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church.

Ferguson fake out: Justice Department's bogus report.  The Justice report doesn't prove disparate treatment, let alone discrimination.  In fact, it looks more like something ginned up to distract from the embarrassing fact that Justice (in another report released the same day) wound up fully validating the findings of the Ferguson grand jury.  Racism is serious, and those engaging in it should be shamed — but we should have real evidence before accusing others of it.  And every one of the Justice report's main claims of evidence of discrimination falls short.

Holder Used Secret Email Address, Too.  Attorney General Eric Holder used secretive email accounts under aliases during his tenure at the Justice Department, raising fresh questions about the Obama administration's compliance with federal records laws as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reels from her own email scandal.  Holder has emailed under the nom de plume "Henry Yearwood" in the past, former Justice Department officials say.  The Huffington Post reported Tuesday that Holder had used three aliases.

Justice Department Protected Convicted Child Rapists.  The Department of Justice (DOJ) protected 58 sex offenders, including convicted child rapists, in its witness protection program, according to an audit by the agency's Office of Inspector General (OIG).  Until 2012, the U.S. Marshals Service, which administers the Federal Witness Security (WITSEC) Program, had no idea how many sex offenders it had admitted into the program.  By July 2014, the DOJ identified 58 individuals, who "at some point in time, had been admitted into the WITSEC Program."  Participants in the program are given a new identity, place to live, and a government stipend for 18 months.

Surprise: Eric Holder Also Used Secret Email Aliases.  The DOJ states that the secret email account in no way interfere with Congressional oversight nor FOIA requests.  As long as the requester knows what those email addresses are that no one knows.  And, "the official told The Huffington Post[,] Holder has used the aliases to prevent spam and to keep his inbox from being overwhelmed by the public, not to avoid transparency."  Apparently, the federal government cannot afford a decent spam filter with their teeny tiny $3.8 trillion budget.  And, how dare you pesky Citizens dare email the top cop!  But, wait, it gets better!

Holder Gets His Wish: An Open War On Police Officers.  The latest casualties in Eric Holder's anti-cop race war are two Ferguson, Mo., officers shot at a protest rally.  The ambush follows the attorney general smearing the entire Ferguson police force as racist.

Ex-FBI Official: Holder Deliberately 'Eclipsed' Darren Wilson's Exoneration.  Attorney General Eric Holder deliberately "eclipsed" a report exonerating former Ferguson, Missouri Police Officer Darren Wilson in the Aug. 9, 2014 shooting death of Michael Brown by releasing another report the same day accusing the Ferguson Police Department of racism, a former FBI official told CNSNews.com.  "Eric Holder knew in the fall that there was zero evidence to continue pursuing a case against Darren Wilson.  He had seven months to make an announcement," former FBI assistant director Ronald Hosko pointed out.

Holder goes out swinging.  Attorney General Eric Holder is speaking his mind in his final days in office, swiping at GOP antagonists and leaving the Department of Justice on his own terms.  Holder has ridiculed Senate Republicans for delaying the nomination of his successor, Loretta Lynch, arguing it is only keeping a man that the House in 2012 held in contempt of Congress in office longer.  "You would actually think that her process would be sped up given their desire to see me out of office," he said at the National Press Club last month.

An Activist to the End.  Eric Holder approached his time in the attorney general's office not as a sober upholder of the law but as a straightforward liberal activist.  He was appointed by President Obama not to enforce the law but to change and twist it according to liberal preferences.  As he ends his tenure, he is taking a victory lap for his contributions to the cause.  That this work meant thwarting the will of the America people doesn't bother him in the least. Referring to gay marriage, he wrote recently, "I am proud to have had the opportunity not only to watch this great national pivot, but to take part in it."  By "national pivot," he means the legal elite's disregard for existing law in favor of their ideology.

Eric Holder: Attorney General for life?  There was a time when Republicans were eager to have Eric Holder gone from the Justice Department.  That time isn't now.  GOP lawmakers began calling for the attorney general's resignation as early as 2011, and they even held him in contempt of Congress a year later.  Nowadays the issue keeping Holder in office has nothing to do with him, or Loretta Lynch, the Brooklyn U.S. attorney President Barack Obama picked to succeed him.

DOJ Lawyers Argue Government Has No Duty to Search Hillary Emails.  Justice Department lawyers argued Thursday [3/19/2015] the federal government has no responsibility produce Hillary Clinton's private emails in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Politico reported:  "FOIA creates no obligation for an agency to search for and produce records that it does not possess and control," Justice lawyer Matthew Collette and Catherine Dorsey wrote in the government's first written court submission on the Hillary Clinton email issue.  The filing (posted here) came in response to a motion by conservative gadfly Larry Klayman asking for contempt proceedings against Clinton and one of her former top aides.

IRS's Lois Lerner won't be charged with contempt.  The Obama administration informed House Speaker John A. Boehner this week it will not prosecute former IRS executive Lois G. Lerner for contempt of Congress, concluding that she did not waive her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions when she was called to testify nearly two years ago.  Ms. Lerner, the figure at the center of the IRS's tea party targeting scandal, is still facing investigation over the intrusive scrutiny of conservative groups, but the decision by U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen does away with at least some of her legal jeopardy.

Obama "Justice" Department Charges Menendez... But Not Reid.  The Obama Justice Department has filed its much anticipated corruption indictment against Senator Robert Menendez.  He is the New Jersey Democrat who, from his powerful senior seat on the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, has vehemently opposed President Obama's negotiations with the jihadist regime in Iran, as well as his outreach to Castro's Cuba.

Missouri lieutenant governor: 'There is more racism in the Justice Department' than in the St. Louis area.  Missouri's lieutenant governor lashed out at the Justice Department on Monday [4/6/2015], accusing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama administration of racism in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in Ferguson last year.  "There is more racism in the Justice Department than there is in anywhere I see in the St. Louis area," Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder said in an interview with NewsMaxTV Monday [3/16/2015].

The deception of the Obama Department of Justice.  Throughout Barack Obama's tenure in the White House he's been accused of leading a lawless presidency and cheapening the rule of law through his Department of Justice.  Many say these accusations are simply based in politics, but a closer look at the way the Department of Justice has handled multiple cases in federal court suggest misleading or lying to judges is a habit, not a mistake.  Most recently, we've seen this happen in the case surrounding President Obama's executive action on illegal immigration.

Justice Department officials may have shared taxpayer info with White House.  Attorneys from the Department of Justice's tax division may have improperly shared confidential taxpayer information with President Obama's White House staff for political reasons, a watchdog group said.  Cause of Action, a nonprofit government watchdog group, filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests Wednesday [4/15/2015] for records demonstrating whether Justice attorneys — some of whom worked directly on elements of the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal — leaked protected information to Obama administration officials while detailed to the Office of White House Counsel.

The Chicago Treason Network.  As Attorney General, Eric Holder has served the role of Obama's pit bull.  Holder's Department of Justice has elevated racial agitation to a high art, political correctness to an Orwellian contact sport, and gun control into a religion.  His fingerprints are all over the administration's various scandals, from Fast and Furious to Ferguson.  Like other administration officials, Holder's history and actions portray a man dedicated to overthrowing Constitutional government.

Eric Holder's legacy.  Prior attorneys general of both political parties, such as Benjamin Civiletti, Griffin Bell, Ed Meese and Michael Mukasey, have fulfilled that duty to the highest ethical and professional standards.  But not Eric Holder.  He put the interests of his political boss first, and the interests of the administration of justice a very distant second.  When President Obama bent, broke, changed or rewrote the law, the person at his side advising him how to do it was Eric Holder.  All the while, he maintained a facade of respect for the rule of law, something for which he and the president have, at times, shown utter contempt.  Mr. Holder's failure to enforce federal laws such as our immigration statutes on a wholesale basis is a particularly acute betrayal of the most basic standard that applies to the attorney general.

A calculated corruptor of justice.  The first attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress has demonstrated shocking contempt for the law, and the ability to abuse and corrupt it for the political and social agenda of this president.  He has assaulted freedom of speech and press at every turn, stonewalled all investigations into widespread corruption within the administration, undermined and obstructed the work of the agencies' own inspectors general, and targeted individuals who dared challenge any of it.  He has tirelessly protected and promoted corrupt prosecutors and scattered ticking time bombs.

Holder: Historians Will View My Tenure As 'Golden Age' Of Justice Dept.  During his farewell address to the Justice Department Friday [4/24/2015], Attorney General Eric Holder referred to his tenure at the Department of Justice as its "golden age" and in the same mold as Robert Kennedy's storied tenure.  Loretta Lynch will take over the department following the Senate's 56-43 confirmation vote Thursday [4/23/2015].

Holder's Legacy Of Politicization.  If there's a government agency that ought to stay above the political fray, it's the Justice Department.  But outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder used his department to pursue a racially polarizing political agenda.

Eric Holder's legacy: The good, the bad and the very ugly.  Eric Holder is now the former attorney general of the United States.  Which invites the question: what will his legacy be as America's top law enforcement officer?  I suspect history will find our eighty-second attorney general more reviled than revered.  When he looked in the mirror, Holder seemed to see the visage of Bobby Kennedy — a champion of civil rights.  His detractors, and there were many, saw someone who more closely resembled John Mitchell, Nixon's political hatchet man who, as attorney general, did his boss's bidding, covered it up and went to prison.

Interracial Crime: Media-driven versus Statistical Realities.  The FBI does not record murders by victim's race.  But no one could argue that whites murder blacks at a higher rate than blacks murder whites, given that blacks are 6.8 times as likely to murder overall.  Yet neither President Obama nor his longtime consigliere, former Attorney General Eric Holder who famously said that we are "a nation of cowards" when it comes to "race related issues" that "continue to divide us," will speak of these statistics.  Instead, the Race Industry cherry-picks violent incidents that they can exploit and then falsify as a narrative, to make it appear that blacks nationwide are under constant assault by racist whites.  Especially white cops.  They isolate a given anecdote and then speak as if it were the rule not the exception, for their political and financial gain.

This Taxpayer-Funded Video Tribute to Eric Holder Brought to You by the DOJ.  When Attorney General Eric Holder's reign at the Justice Department ended earlier this month, readers of National Review probably hoped it would mean the end of stories about Holder's seemingly inexhaustible misbehavior and legal shenanigans.  But apparently he could not leave without one last abuse of taxpayer funds.

Hymn to Holder.  Candidate Obama's presidential campaign cultivated a cult of personality that conforms rather glaringly to Obama's conception of himself.  But Eric Holder?  The guy is a sort of Mini-Me version of Obama with a thick overlay of outright stupidity.  But he too is a legend in his own mind.  As a parting shot at the American people, the Department of Justice now abuses us with a video saluting Holder's greatness.  [Video clip]

'Broken Windows' policing is not broken.  Tragically, a surge in violent victimizations has swept across several American cities in the past two weeks.  This may well be a reflection of what happens in the public square when the forces of order are weakened or demoralized. [...] Data from every major report show profound declines in crime in the U.S. over the past two decades, accompanied with sharp increases in incarceration.  In this sense, our court system has worked.  But the Obama Administration's Department of Justice has shown troubling signs it hopes to use racial politics to prevail over the courts and public safety.

Eric Holder claims US could strike deal with Edward Snowden to bring him back from exile.  Eric Holder believes America could strike a deal with former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to see him return from exile in Russia to the United States.  The former Attorney General, who charged Snowden with three felony counts of espionage for leaking thousands of government papers to the press, told Yahoo News it is a 'possibility' as he acknowledged the case prompted a 'necessary debate' about secrecy.

Eric Holder: The 'Possibility Exists' That Edward Snowden Could Come Home.  In a subtle yet remarkable shift in tone, former Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that the "possibility exists" that the Justice Department could forge a deal with fugitive leaker Edward Snowden that could bring him home.  Speaking to Yahoo News, Holder said "we are in a different place as a result of the Snowden disclosures," adding that Snowden's revelations about the size and scope of the National Security Agency's sweeping surveillance programs "spurred a necessary debate.["]

Eric Holder: Supreme Court justice?  Former Attorney General Eric Holder says he has no interest in returning to public life, even if offered a seat on the Supreme Court.  "I greatly enjoyed my career in public service, and I'll stay involved in political life in some form or fashion, but in terms of my own career, I think this is my last stop," Holder told The National Law Journal, fresh off his decision to rejoin the Covington & Burling law firm.

Family: DOJ Used Perjured Testimony to Secure Guilty Verdict on War Vets Working as Blackwater Guards.  Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors used perjured testimony to secure guilty verdicts for four decorated veterans accused of indiscriminately shooting into a crowd of Iraqi civilians in September 2007 while working as private contractors for Blackwater, argue some of the defendants' family members.

Is a Criminal Probe of Clinton Near?  The U.S. Department of Justice has been asked to open a criminal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's mishandling of classified information in emails she sent through her unauthorized, insecure private email server.  Whether such a probe, if it happens, will actually accomplish anything is a separate question.  That's because the DoJ is headed by Obama appointee Loretta Lynch who is essentially a carbon copy of her predecessor, the corrupt Eric Holder, a man who was held in contempt by the U.S. House of Representatives and who came close to getting impeached for misconduct in office.

Holder's Hatchet Job.  One lesson should have been driven home from the shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014:  racial interpretations of complex events are dangerous.  The media and Eric Holder's Justice Department initially cast Wilson as a racist who shot an innocent black youth.  They were, as we now know, flat wrong.  Not only did a state grand jury decline to prosecute Wilson last fall, but the Justice Department itself backtracked and recommended against federal prosecution.  The evidence confirmed that Wilson acted in self-defense and didn't provide a whiff of support for allegations of anti-black bias.

Ted Cruz [is the] Best Choice to End Lawlessness at [the] Justice Department.  No matter what issue you care about most, all policy roads lead through the Justice Department bureaucracy.  If you care about energy, national security, religious liberty, immigration or the power of government, it is the Justice Department lawyers that develop the intricate legal policies that support the agency decisions.  They are the lawyers that make the litigation decisions.  That's precisely why Obama installed a radical ideological crony like Eric Holder to lead the place.  When Obama radicalized the Justice Department, he radicalized the government.

Voter Fraud: We See Dead People.  Remember the Black Panther Party thugs who stood outside the polls armed with clubs?  Though they were charged with voter intimidation, Obama's DOJ arrogantly and without apology outrageously dropped the charges because the perpetrators were black.

Former Attorney General Eric Holder Sees 'Younger Eric' in Black Lives Matter.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder had advice and praise for the Black Lives Matter movement, comparing the radical leftist anti-police activist group to both Dr. Martin Luther King and "the younger Eric."  In an interview with South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Jaime Harrison, Holder lauded the group for being disruptive, saying, "I think that they've disrupted things, but that's what social change in this country is really all about."

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Operation Fast & Furious.  Operation Fast and Furious was a BATF led operation that sold guns to the drug lords in Mexico through intermediaries in a supposed attempt to track the guns and the channels feeding the drug lords.  Trouble is, the program actually put over 2000 high powered rifles, including 50 caliber sniper rifles, into the hands of the Drug Lords never intended to track them.  The GPS tracking devices were intentionally left off.  Over 1500 of these weapons are still "missing."  Ultimately, the Gun Stores involved and the agents themselves became whistleblowers because of their concerns that our own government was, in effect, recklessly and illegally arming the Mexican Drug Cartels.  As a result, several Americans have been killed by these weapons, including US Law Enforcement officers, and over 200 Mexican citizens have been killed.  It is patently illegal to do what the BATF did, and the operation was supported and directed by the Department of Justice, over which Eric Holder, President Obama's Attorney General presides.

Holder used Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's name for emails while in office.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder used the birth name of basketball icon Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as an alias for his official Justice Department email account, according to new documents revealed Thursday [2/25/2016].  The Justice Department said in response to a Vice News request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that Holder used the name "Lew Alcindor" in email conversations with his staffers.  His own name does not appear in the emails.  The disclosure raises new questions about Obama administration officials' email practices, following controversy over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's unconventional email setup.

Judge Orders White House To Stop Hiding Its Bogus Global Warming 'Proof'.  [Scroll down]  The released material is not highly sensitive.  So one wonders why the government bothered to redact it in the first place — and fought its release in court for over a year.  Upon assuming office, Holdren's boss, President Obama, and his attorney general, Eric Holder, issued guidance telling agencies not to withhold information just because they can, or based on technicalities, and to err on the side of disclosure, rather than secrecy.  As Holder once noted, "On his first full day in office, January 21, 2009, President Obama issued a memorandum to the heads of all departments and agencies on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  The President directed that FOIA 'should be administered with a clear presumption:  In the face of doubt, openness prevails.'"  But that commitment to transparency has been flouted throughout the government, especially in Holder's own Justice Department.

Obama relents on Fast & Furious executive privilege, turns records over to Congress.  The Obama administration caved to a judge's order Friday [4/8/2016] and sent documents from the botched Fast & Furious gun-running operation to Congress, complying with a subpoena the House Oversight Committee issued years ago.  President Obama had claimed executive privilege in trying to shield the documents from Congress, but a federal judge rejected that, insisting lawmakers had a right to see the information in order to complete their investigation into an operation that saw thousands of guns trafficked into Mexico, with the administration's knowledge.  With just hours to go before the judge's 60-day deadline, the administration complied Friday [4/8/2016].

Don't Be Fooled: The White House Is Still Stonewalling Fast & Furious.  There has long been speculation that Operation Fast and Furious, one of up to ten gun-walking operations in states along the southern border, was an attempt to add material support to the Obama Administration's so called "90-percent lie."  Soon after taking office, President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed the blatant falsehood that 90-percent of the guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico came from gun dealers in the United States.  The reality was that only 8-percent were traced to American gun dealers.

Holder tried to stonewall, spin 'Fast and Furious' probe, panel says.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder, President Barack Obama's pick to run the Justice Department, played a crucial role in an effort to cover up the government's "Fast and Furious" Mexican gun trafficking scandal, a congressional investigative panel said Thursday [4/14/2016].  "Senior Justice Department official — including Attorney General Eric Holder — intensely followed and managed an effort to carefully limit and obstruct the information produced to Congress," the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said in a report about a trove of thousands of documents finally turned over by the administration after about five years of delays.

Documents confirm Eric Holder's role in Fast and Furious cover-up.  "Fast and Furious" is back in the news.  The reason?  In January, Judge Amy Berman, an Obama appointee, ordered the Department of Justice to produce documents relating to the "gun walking" scandal that Congress had been seeking for four years.  DOJ finally produced them, some 20,000 pages worth, this month. [...] Having reviewed these documents, Jason Chaffetz, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has released a memo summarizing what they show. [...] Holder and his subordinates:
  1.  Presumed that allegations about gunwalking in Arizona were false and refused to adjust when documents and evidence showed otherwise.
  2.  Politicized decisions about how and whether to comply with the congressional investigation.
  3.  Devised strategies to redact or otherwise withhold relevant information from Congress and the public.
  4.  Isolated the fallout from the Fast and Furious scandal to ATF leadership and the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona.
  5.  Created a culture of animosity towards congressional oversight.

Holder Hosts 'Lawyers for Hillary' as FBI Investigation Goes On.  The FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton continues, but that isn't stopping the former head of the Department of Justice from holding a fundraiser for the Democratic presidential candidate.  Julianna Margulies, who played a political spouse betrayed by her husband, will also be at the event.  An invitation for the event posted on Hillaryclinton.com reads, "Please join Lawyers for Hillary and Eric H. Holder, Jr., 82nd Attorney General of the United States and Julianna Margulies for an evening with Hillary."

Lynch's Transparent Abuse of the Law.  When Loretta Lynch succeeded Eric Holder as U.S. Attorney General a year ago, some harbored the tiniest hope that she wouldn't be quite as radical.  After all, Holder had done his best to gin up racial resentment, dismiss a clear case of voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party, attack voter photo ID laws, refuse to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, threaten a congressman trying to get to the truth of the Fast and Furious Mexican gun-running scandal, and ignore the Internal Revenue Service's mob-like persecution of conservative groups.

13 Incompetent Failures in the Obama Administration.  [#6] Attorney General Eric Holder's list of dishonors is long and impressive:  being censured by the House of Representatives, withholding subpoenaed documents, lying about a failed gun-walking caper in Mexico (also known as "Fast and Furious"), and most importantly failing to enforce the law (his constitutional duty) on everything from immigration to Obamacare.  Oh, and Holder illegally billed the government for his private use of a federal Gulfstream jet, snooped on Associated Press reporters, gave exemptions to "unbiased" IRS officials, and made extensive use of the race card.  He also used not one, not two, but three email aliases to avoid public scrutiny.

We Are a Fish, Rotting From the Head.  Worst of all, perhaps, is the way Barack Obama and his Attorneys General, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, have corrupted the Department of Justice.  Time after time, federal judges have found that DOJ lawyers have lied to the courts on behalf to the Obama administration's political agenda. [...] Then there is the fact that Barack Obama is a scofflaw.  Repeatedly, he has ignored the Constitution and violated federal law, refusing to enforce the nation's immigration laws, imperiously changing his own Obamacare statute with no legal authority, and so on.  Years later, the courts sometimes catch up with him; the administration has lost a number of 9-0 Supreme Court decisions where its lawbreaking was indisputable.  But more broadly, the Obama administration's campaign of lawbreaking and stonewalling has succeeded.

Holder's Ugly Legacy.  Eric Holder has announced his resignation from his position as U.S. attorney general after almost six years of turning the Justice Department into a partisan political vehicle instead of a law enforcement institution.  It's too early to tell as of this writing what prompted his resignation.  One would like to think his legacy of scandals and corruption finally caught up to him, but we have no reasonable expectation that this is the case, given this administration's agility at escaping accountability for any and all wrongdoing.  No, I doubt it's his malfeasance in connection with the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, his obstruction of the congressional investigation into the Internal Revenue Service scandal or any other of a number of legitimate reasons warranting his repentance and resignation.

Eric Holder:  Fingerprinting Is Racist.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder has come out against proposals in Chicago and New Jersey to require fingerprint background checks of drivers for ride-hailing platforms such as Uber and Lyft.  Why would President Obama's onetime top lawman come out against regulation that is supposed to protect the riding public?  Credit the intersection of two forces.  First, Holder's tony corporate law firm, Covington & Burling, represents Uber.  Also, as Holder sees it, requiring drivers to submit fingerprints may "have a discriminatory impact on communities of color."

Black against White.  When the New Black Panther Party intimidated voters in Philadelphia, Eric Holder's justice department dropped the case.  When a white police officer in Ferguson, MO shot a black man, he was exonerated by all investigations.  And yet, the meme pesists:  the officer was guilty of murder.  And the death of Freddy Gray was declared a homicide, even if the courts have clearly said otherwise.  Anything to make blacks feel victimized.  Anything to make them feel justified in rioting and burning down their neighborhoods.

Alphabet Soup Corruption.  [Scroll down]  [Loretta] Lynch, remember, replaced Attorney General Eric Holder, the first and only AG to be held in contempt by Congress.  Holder was at the center of scandals, both personal and professional, ranging from the failed Fast and Furious gun-running sting operation to the unlawful use of a private government jet to junket family and friends to the Belmont Stakes horse race.  He also dropped a voter intimidation case by the New Black Panther Party and made inflammatory statements such as referring to African-Americans as "my people" and deriding America as a "nation of cowards" for not framing racial issues in the manner Holder would have wished.  To top it all off, toward the end of his time in DOJ, he was accused of improper and stealthy surveillance of Associated Press journalists.

Alphabet Soup Corruption.  [Scroll down]  [Loretta] Lynch, remember, replaced Attorney General Eric Holder, the first and only AG to be held in contempt by Congress.  Holder was at the center of scandals, both personal and professional, ranging from the failed Fast and Furious gun-running sting operation to the unlawful use of a private government jet to junket family and friends to the Belmont Stakes horse race.  He also dropped a voter intimidation case by the New Black Panther Party and made inflammatory statements such as referring to African-Americans as "my people" and deriding America as a "nation of cowards" for not framing racial issues in the manner Holder would have wished.  To top it all off, toward the end of his time in DOJ, he was accused of improper and stealthy surveillance of Associated Press journalists.

Americans Affirm Voter ID Laws.  Contrary to claims of opponents, minority voter participation has increased in states with photo ID laws.  Nonetheless, President Obama's Department of Justice, the ACLU, and a host of leftist organizations continue their crusade against photo ID laws, which they liken to images of KKK thugs with billy clubs menacing a polling place in Dixie, circa 1960.  But when it came to billy-club-armed New Black Panthers menacing a Philadelphia precinct in 2008, not to worry.  Obama's DOJ dismissed the voter-intimidation case against the Panthers in 2009, as recounted by J. Christian Adams, one of the DOJ attorneys who prosecuted the case and resigned in protest when it was dismissed.  As an aside, catch the irony when the Panther with a billy club asks a reporter for his ID.

Leftist Latino Group Crowns USDA "Federal Agency of the Year" for Cultural Transformation.  [Scroll down]  To get a clearer idea of LULAC's radical agenda[,] back in the 1990s one its officials accused a Mexican fast-food eatery of a hate crime for using a Chihuahua in a commercial.  LULAC claimed that "Mexican Americans are treated like dogs, they have to work like dogs, and now they're being portrayed as dogs."  Nevertheless, Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, professed solidarity with LULAC and publicly chanted the group's socialist mission statement — in both English and Spanish — at a LULAC powwow in which he bragged about the DOJ filing more civil rights cases than in any previous period in the nation's history.

Eric Holder named to lead effort to destroy GOP after Hillary wins the presidency.  This election is for keeps:  plans are being implemented, with President Obama already signed on, staff hired, and money being raised.  Perhaps lulled into complacency by the MSM polls, the Democrats have already constructed and staffed their strategy to permanently disable the Republican Party.  Eric Holder is the perfect henchman, a man above nothing in his quest for political dominance, unbound by old-fashioned concepts of justice.  The GOP will remain in existence as the token opposition, useful for legitimizing the actual one-party regime, the essential element of the election rituals reminding us of the Republic we once enjoyed.

With Obama's Help Eric Holder Seeks to 'Break GOP Supremacy' by Redistricting the Country.  Because he didn't do enough damage with his Fast & Furious gun-running scheme, disgraced former Attorney General Eric Holder — with the help of President Obama — is back on the prowl, looking to redistrict the country to ensure no one can flee from Democrats' iron grip.  He says he's doing it to "break the GOP's supremacy."  Really?  Yes, really.  Politico reports that Holder "will chair a new umbrella group focused on redistricting reform — with the aim of taking on the gerrymandering that's left the party behind in statehouses and made winning a House majority far more difficult": [...]

To 'Drain the Swamp,' Start With the Department of Justice.  As we approach the inauguration of the 45th president of the United States, we can only hope that the Department of Justice under a Trump Administration is one that believes and, more importantly engages, in pursuing justice ethically, legally and with lots of common sense; and one that will institute department-wide accountability from both the top-down and bottom-up.  As someone that has worked in the criminal justice field for close to 35 years and strongly believed that I knew and understood our criminal justice system more than most, I am saddened to admit that I was wrong, but I am optimistic that with the right leadership and management accountability, for positive change in the Justice Department is in fact possible.

7 things Sessions can do immediately to restore the rule of law at Justice.  There is no part of the federal government that is more vital to our system of government, yet more damaged by the Obama years, than the Department of Justice.  Whether it's immigration law, domestic crime, jailbreak, crushing the states with lawsuits, or religious liberty concerns, the Justice Department stands at the nexus of the most important issues of our time.  If there was ever an agency that must be cleaned out from top to bottom, it's the DOJ. And no man is better suited for that job than Senator Jeff Sessions.  He will promote equal justice under the statutes passed by Congress.  Moreover, he can serve as a watchdog to ensure that other areas of the federal government are following the letter of the laws passed by Congress.  While some systemic reforms will have to come from Congress, there are some immediate steps that Sessions can take on day one to implement triage on the rule of law.

Senator Jeff Sessions Will Be the Restorative Attorney General We Need.  The Obama Justice Department has been the most politicized in the nation's history.  It has weaponized the law against the president's political adversaries and scapegoats, while insulating the president's allies against investigation and prosecution.  It has made progressive political activism the touchstone of Justice Department hiring, stacking various departmental sections with social-justice warriors who see the law as their arsenal to achieve fundamental societal transformation.  It has exploited the legal process as an extortionate tool to shakedown deep-pocketed institutions for the purpose of funding progressive rabble-rousers.  It has used law-enforcement to craft political narratives that, for example, propped up Obama's "blame the video" fraud after the Benghazi massacre; framed the nation's financial institutions for the mortgage meltdown, to the exclusion of reckless government policies; and undermined Second Amendment rights while getting federal agents killed (see the "Fast and Furious" debacle, over which Holder was held in contempt of Congress).  It has injected racial discrimination into the enforcement of civil-rights laws in blatant violation of the equal-protection principles those laws are supposed to assure.  It has exhibited a contempt for Congress and a propensity to obstruct legislative oversight that would have made the Nixon administration blush.  It has repeatedly engaged in appalling prosecutorial misconduct and then lied to federal judges to cover it up.  It has not only refused to enforce the immigration laws and sued to prevent sovereign states from enforcing them, but has also endorsed the president's claimed power to ignore congressional statutes.  It is abetting a war on the nation's police departments, seeking to nationalize them under the guise of baseless and ruinously divisive smears that cops are hunting down African-American men, and that the justice system is rigged against black people.

Judicial Watch Wants Sessions to Root Evil Out of DOJ.  "When it comes to public policy, the Justice Department is a locus of evil," said Tom Fitton, who heads Judicial Watch.  He said he hopes the agency will follow his group's advice and put it through a cultural overhaul.  "It's just an aggressively ideological and 'what is it we can get away with' Justice Department," Fitton said.  "Sessions has a big fight ahead of him."  Fitton hopes the senator will "stop the war on police" — meaning, roll back the agency's intervention when police departments face steep public criticism, like in Chicago and Baltimore.  And if the department doesn't root out what Fitton believes is intractable internal corruption, his group will keep pushing.

5 Facts You May Not Know About Former Attorney General Eric Holder.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder was recently hired by the California legislators to represent them in future legal battles with Trump's White House.  Here are five facts you may not know about him.

Judicial Watch Goes After 'Another Corrupt Politician — Eric Holder'.  Judicial Watch filed a records request with the California State Legislature on Monday [1/9/2017] regarding the recent hiring of former United States Attorney General Eric Holder to help the state resist President-elect Donald Trump.  Holder's firm, Covington & Burlingt, was hired last week to serve as "outside counsel" to the legislature.

Trump and Obama's Legacy of Racism.  [Scroll down]  Let's look at a few examples, starting with the easiest, the Department of Justice.  For eight years, the two attorneys general have crusaded to let the world know there are too many black people in prison for no reason what so ever — other than white racism.  Too many arrested.  Too many prosecuted.  Too many convicted.  Too many sent away for too long.  And once let out, too many return too soon.  They call it Criminal Justice Reform — and it is all about white racism and racist police.  From the president on down, they say the only reason more black people are arrested than white people is that racist white police pick on black people in black neighborhoods.  And if they pulled the cops out of black neighborhoods and put them in white hoods, the crime numbers would flip and white people would be arrested wildly out of proportion.

Muslim Brotherhood Front Organizations, U.S. and Canada.  The 2008 Holy Land Relief terrorism funding criminal trial resulted in multiple convictions and was touted as the one of the largest terrorism financing trials in American history.  Expectations were high that the 2008 trial would be followed by further trials involving the listed unindicted co-conspirators such as CAIR USA and the Islamic Society of North America.  However, with the appointment of Eric Holder as the U.S. Attorney General in 2009, all further actions on this file appear to have been frozen.  Holder would later speak at a conference supporting one of the unindicted co-conspirators.

Eric Holder Is Getting Paid a Boat Load of Money by California Taxpayers to Oppose President Trump.  According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, former Attorney General Eric Holder is being paid a boat load of taxpayer money to fight and oppose President Donald Trump's agenda in California.  "We will render our statements to you monthly.  For the initial three-month phase of our engagement, we have agreed to charge the Legislature a fixed fee of $25,000 per month," the agreement between Covington & Burling Law Firm, where Holder now works, and the California Legislature states.  "This fee will include a maximum of 40 attorney or advisor hours per month."

GOP wants to eliminate shadowy DOJ slush fund bankrolling leftist groups.  The Obama administration funneled billions of dollars to activist organizations through a Department of Justice slush fund scheme, according to congressional investigators.  "It's clear partisan politics played a role in the illicit actions that were made," Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, told Fox News.  "The DOJ is the last place this should have occurred."  Findings spearheaded by the House Judiciary Committee point to a process shrouded in secrecy whereby monies were distributed to a labyrinth of nonprofit organizations involved with grass-roots activism.

The Obama Regime's Criminal Syndicate.  [Scroll down]  Among the radical leftist groups pre-approved by the settlement agreements to directly receive funds from the banks is none other than The National Council of La Raza, which bills itself as "the nation's largest Hispanic activist organization."  Yet, a brief history lesson on the reality of La Raza, which literally translates to "the race," shows us that the group has been connected to the Chicano Student Movement of Aztlan (MEChA), an extremist Mexican race hate group which firmly believes in exploiting illegal immigration to bring about 'La Reconquista', a violent overthrow of the southern U.S. states that would be absorbed into Greater Mexico. [...] According to a February 2016 independent monitor report, there are 147 "HUD-approved counseling agencies" that make up these third party groups like La Raza that are currently receiving hundreds of millions of dollars directly from the banks under the DOJ settlement agreements.

Holder: Obama preparing to get back into political spotlight.  Former President Obama is getting ready to jump back into the political pool, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday [2/28/2017].  Holder said he has been talking with Obama about different ways to help the new National Democratic Redistricting Committee, according to Politico.  Obama asked Holder to be chairman of the group last year.  "He's ready to roll," Holder told reporters at a briefing.

Did the Attorney General Commit Perjury?  No, not Jeff Sessions.  Sessions was asked whether representatives of the Trump campaign had been in contact with Russian officials on behalf of the campaign, and Sessions said he didn't know anything about that.  He hadn't had such contact on behalf of the campaign.  His answer was completely and fully accurate.  No one asked Sessions whether he had ever met a Russian.  I am talking about Eric Holder, who almost certainly did commit perjury when testifying under oath before the House Judiciary Committee.  We wrote about it [elsew]here.  The story is worth remembering.  Holder was asked whether DOJ could prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act: [...]

Where has she been for the last eight years?
Sen. Feinstein Worries 'The Justice Department Could Become Politicized'.  President Trump's nominees for Deputy Attorney general and Associate Attorney general appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday [3/7/2017] for their confirmation hearing, which took on added importance, given Attorney General Sessions' decision to recuse himself from any investigation dealing with the Trump campaign and Russian meddling in the U.S. election.  Even before Rod Rosenstein and Rachel Brand testified, the committee's ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called for a special prosecutor to investigate the alleged Russia-Trump collusion — for which there is still no evidence.

Sessions asks 46 Obama-era US Attorneys to resign.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked dozens of U.S. attorneys appointed by former President Obama to submit their resignations, the Department of Justice announced Friday [3/10/2017].  U.S. attorneys are normally replaced at the beginning of new administrations.  Of the 93 U.S. attorneys, 46 remain from the past administration, according to the Department of Justice.

AG Sessions Open to Appointing Special Counselor to Review Obama DOJ's Scandals.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Thursday [3/9/2017] that he would consider appointing an outside counsel to look into actions taken by the Department of Justice during the Obama years.  Hewitt asked Sessions if he would be open to appointing an outside counsel to review the DOJ's actions regarding the IRS case, the Fast and Furious case, and Secretary Clinton's server.  The Department just "had a bad eight years," Hewitt said.  "How about an outside counsel, not connected to politics, to review the DOJ's actions in those matters with authority to bring charges if underlying crimes are uncovered in the course of the investigation, and just generally to look at how the Department of Justice operated in the highly-politicized Holder-Lynch years?"

The Rotten Obama Record — and Legacy.  [Scroll down]  When [Obama] nominated Eric Holder to be Attorney General, we should have known.  Rather than delve into Holder's corrupt reputation, the GOP allowed this man through without a fight, allowing him to politicize the Justice Department in ways not thought possible.  This was the man who helped Bill Clinton pardon Marc Rich for the quid pro quo of money donations.  Holder then:
  •   Dismissed Black Panther felonies
  •   Sent guns to drug gangs in Mexico to make a case for gun control
  •   Refused to give information to Congress about "Fast and Furious"
  •   Sued states for cleaning up voter rolls
  •   Roiled the black community for votes by hyping Trayvon Martin.
The list of ugly things by Holder is long and beyond the pale.  When he left, Loretta Lynch followed in his same corrupt footsteps.

The 7 Most Heinous Crimes of the Obama DOJ.  Writing at National Review, former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy outlines the machinations of the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) against alleged insider trading.  Led by the controversial Preet Bharara — since fired by President Trump — the office has been pilloried in the media for its tactics.  As McCarthy notes, there is general concern that "improper and abusive behavior by prosecutors has reached 'epidemic proportions'."  However, that's not the worst of it.  McCarthy lists seven high crimes and misdeameanors of the Obama DOJ that are worth remembering.

Republicans Go to Jail, Democrats Run Free.  Loretta Lynch's predecessor, Attorney General Eric Holder, lied repeatedly about the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal in which southwestern gun stores sold some 2,000 weapons to dodgy buyers, supposedly so they could be tracked back to Mexican drug lords and other hoodlums.  Alas, only about 700 were recovered.  Some of the 1,300 firearms that went astray subsequently were used to murder hundreds of Mexican citizens and two American Border Patrol agents.  No one at Obama's ATF ever paid for this fatal mayhem.  Holder was held in contempt of Congress for refusing to deliver relevant documents to Congressional investigators.  So what?  Holder finished his service in peace and now thrives afresh as a private attorney.

DOJ ends Holder-era 'slush fund' payouts to outside groups.  The Justice Department announced Wednesday [6/7/2017] it will no longer allow prosecutors to strike settlement agreements with big companies directing them to make payouts to outside groups, ending an Obama-era practice that Republicans decried as a "slush fund" that padded the accounts of liberal interest groups.  In a memo sent to 94 U.S. attorneys' offices early Wednesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would end the practice that allowed companies to meet settlement burdens by giving money to groups that were neither victims nor parties to the case.  Sessions said the money should, instead, go to the Treasury Department or victims.

Fast and Furious report slams Holder, DOJ for deception in gun-running scandal.  Members of a congressional committee at a public hearing Wednesday blasted former President Barack Obama and his attorney general for allegedly covering up an investigation into the death of a Border Patrol agent killed as a result of a botched government gun-running project known as Operation Fast and Furious.  The House Oversight Committee also Wednesday released a scathing, nearly 300-page report that found Holder's Justice Department tried to hide the facts from the loved ones of slain Border Patrol Brian Terry — seeing his family as more of a "nuisance" than one deserving straight answers — and slamming Obama's assertion of executive privilege to deny Congress access to records pertaining to Fast and Furious.

Holder Blasted For Fast And Furious Obstruction.  Wednesday [6/7/2017], House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-IA) released a 250-plus page report detailing Obama's Department of Justice's (DOJ) obstruction under Attorney General Eric Holder of the congressional investigation into Operation Fast and Furious and the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.  The report highlights key documents and communications concerning the Obama/Holder DOJ's stonewalling of Congress and makes it crystal clear why Eric Holder became the only U.S. Attorney General held in both criminal and civil contempt.

Obama, Holder, and tyrannical judges put liberty in the crosshairs.  A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the possible 2020 presidential run by Barack Obama's gun-running buddy and fellow race-baiter, former US Attorney General Eric Holder.  Not surprisingly, some of my readers dismissed the possibility that Holder could be a serious threat if he were to be the Democrat nominee, even though I warned against taking such a position based on the "behind-the-scenes" work he is doing with Obama.  Well, the wheels of their agenda will be put in motion later this week.  One of the ways Holder and Obama are hoping to shape the political landscape is through the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC).  This group is working at the grass-roots level to elect enough Democrats in state and local government over the next few years, giving them the power to control Congressional Redistricting after the 2020 census.

Eric Holder Rallies Liberal Lawyers Against Trump in San Fran.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder told a group of liberal lawyers to keep fighting at a San Francisco fundraiser Wednesday, continuing his message about using state power to oppose the Trump administration.  Holder, who served during the Obama administration, told his audience not to be afraid of what President Donald Trump is doing, but he still affirmed that news from the White House is "disturbing," the San Francisco Chronicle reports.  He also said that he worries about the "moral arc of the universe" bending away from justice, not toward it as Martin Luther King Jr. said.  "It's the responsibility of all of us to keep our hands on that arc," he said.  "There is fighting to be done, there are lawsuits to be brought ... You can never underestimate the power of the American people."

Obama Sets Sights on Post-2020 Redistricting Efforts at D.C. Fundraiser.  On Thursday [7/13/2017], former President Barack Obama made his first political appearance since leaving office in January at a private fundraiser for the National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC).  The event was put on to help bankroll the effort of Democrats to take back power after a devastating loss last November.  It was held in a private home and was attended by Obama's former Attorney General Eric Holder and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.  Holder is currently leading the NDRC.  Prior to his appearance at Thursday's [7/13/2017] fundraiser, he held a pep talk for a group of liberal lawyers and activists in San Francisco and encouraged them to keep fighting President Donald Trump and his administration.

Eric Holder hit with Fort Hood 'workplace violence' mockery after Charlottesville remarks.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder's foray into a debate on Saturday's [8/12/2017] violence in Charlottesville, Va., quickly elicited reminders of his early stance on convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan.  It wasn't long after a white supremacist gathering Saturday turned deadly with the killing of Heather Heyer, 32, that former President Obama's top cop pronounced the ordeal "domestic terrorism." Mr. Holder's assessment of 20-year-old suspect James Alex Fields — who careened his vehicle into a crowd of protesters — prompted backlash by those familiar with the Justice Department's handling of the Nov. 5, 2009, Fort Hood massacre, which killed 13.

The Uranium One Scandal Is Exploding.  The Russia/Obama/Clinton scandal that goes generally under the name of Uranium One is getting harder for the liberal press to cover up. [...] The original story goes back to Peter Schweizer's Clinton Cash.  The scandal is a blockbuster, perhaps the worst involving Barack Obama, Eric Holder's corrupt Department of Justice, and Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Holder: 'Our Democracy Is Under Attack' — I Don't Know If I'll Run for Office.  On Monday's [10/23/2017] broadcast of MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show," former Attorney General Eric Holder stated he didn't know if he will ever run for office and argued that between gerrymandering and voter suppression laws, "our democracy is under attack."

Emails Appear To Confirm That President Obama's DOJ Funneled 'Slush Fund' Money To Leftist Orgs.  On Tuesday [10/24/2017], House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) revealed that documents obtained in a separate, ongoing investigation show that former President Barack Obama's administration directed money intended for victims of Wall Street mortgage meddling to progressive activist organizations who now form much of the "resistance" to President Donald Trump.  Members of the House Judiciary Committee mentioned several weeks ago that they suspected Obama's Department of Justice had iced out conservative organizations looking for their share of the more than $1 billion legal settlement the DOJ collected from "big banks" who'd played a part in the housing crisis of the late 2000s.  The DOJ required banks included in the settlement agreement to make "mandatory donations" to non-profits working on housing and property rights policies.

Obama Justice Department's liberal slush fund exposed.  New internal documents from the Obama Department of Justice (DoJ) reveal the existence of a DoJ "slush fund" used to fund left-wing groups while intentionally excluding conservative organizations.  Despite sworn assertions before Congress by DoJ representatives that the "Department did not want to be in the business of picking and choosing which organization may or may not receive any funding under the agreement," a series of emails exposes the real intent of DoJ leadership and staff to funnel "money toward an organization of our choosing" using funds obtained via settlement with banks involved in the housing bubble of 2008-2009.

Obama Justice Department's $1 Billion 'Slush Fund' Boosted Liberal Groups.  President Barack Obama's Justice Department created a "slush fund" of nearly $1 billion using legal settlements with banks and steered those funds to political allies on the left while excluding conservative groups, internal documents show.  The financial institutions, which made legal settlements with the Obama administration regarding mortgage securities that imploded during the 2008 financial crisis, include Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and JPMorgan Chase.  Public records of the settlement agreements with the Justice Department show that when cash donations to liberal groups are combined with other donations in the form of loans and a separate settlement with Volkswagen of America Inc., the slush fund may have topped $3 billion.

How Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch handed Jeff Sessions a huge present.  If the law were properly enforced, there would be fewer incidents of what the gun grabbers call "gun violence."  Fewer incidents to use as propaganda for demanding even more draconian laws limiting the access of law-abiding citizens to firearms through new laws.  Here is the opportunity this enforcement fiasco has created for Sessions, and his boss, President Trump.  Start with a high-profile denunciation of the DOJ's failure over the last 8 years to protect the public.  This could be done by either President Trump or his AG.  There surely are instances of people who were not prosecuted and went on to commit crimes.  The victims of those crimes can be highlighted and a finger of responsibility pointed at the DOJ.  President Trump then directs, via an executive order, his DOJ to prioritize prosecution of violations of the background check documentation.  A signing ceremony, accompanied by remarks criticizing the failures of AGs Holder and Lynch, and promising to reverse the harm they have caused by their negligence, would be good.

FBI Plot Against Trump.  This shouldn't be all that surprising given that Barack Obama gleefully weaponized the FBI, Department of Justice, and various intelligence agencies, and criminalized political differences in the process. A radical zealot with a desire to fundamentally transform the United States, the 44th president had a limited sense of boundaries.  Obama was more Third World caudillo than president and he was never troubled by hijacking governmental powers to hurt his opposition, as the conservative groups targeted by his IRS can attest.  His race-obsessed first attorney general, Eric Holder, turned the Justice Department into a virtual arm of the Democratic Party, using the agency to punish the Left's enemies and let allies run wild.  His second attorney general, Loretta Lynch, surreptitiously met with Bill Clinton in an airport hangar, presumably to cut a shady deal to let Hillary Clinton escape punishment for the many crimes she committed in office.

What Is Obama's Former Attorney General Hiding?  One can only imagine what Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder has to hide.  Despite Obama's claims of "scandal-free" administration and the most transparent, Eric Holder knows he has serious problems ahead.  Holder and the AG who followed him, namely Loretta Lynch were the worst attorneys general in American history.  Corrupt to their rotten cores, the duo.  And they used the office to brutalize the American public, specifically Conservatives.

Law-Abiding Citizens.  In the past few weeks the leftists have all sounded more like the Tea Party than anything else, arguing that the Mueller investigation into collusion is some sort of Constitutionally guaranteed process that Donald Trump had better not interfere with, or he will be hounded out of office by raging mobs of Antifa, BLM and Hollywood stars.  Eric Holder, mastermind of such great examples of Constitutionality like Waco and Fast and Furious, who is the only American Attorney General to be held in contempt of Congress, threatened to unleash the power of Antifa on America's streets should Donald Trump fire Mueller.  This is seditious, it is the ultimate threat of domestic insurrection.  No laws have been violated by Trump, the Constitution has not been violated and since a Special Counsel is highly suspect as a Constitutional act itself, there are no grounds for unleashing such insurrection other than to take control of the government.

Sr. Congressional Oversight Member:  Everything From Fast & Furious, Benghazi, IRS, & Other Obama Scandals Connected To Corrupt DOJ & FBI.  Congressman Paul Gosar didn't hold back in a recent interview and he's now begging the American people to pay more attention and demand answers from their political leaders.  According to Gosar, the Obama White House micromanaged everything from drone attacks to illegal surveillance on political opponents and was able to do so via very carefully placed DOJ and FBI firewalls that to this day continue to insulate Barack Obama and other Obama-related officials, from justice.

Exclusive — Rep. Paul Gosar:  Obama's Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS Scandals All Connected to DOJ, FBI Corruption in Trump Probe.  Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), a leading conservative member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, told Breitbart News Daily on Wednesday that he believes that there is an interconnectivity between various high-profile Barack Obama-era scandals and the latest revelations about corruption at the Department of Justice and FBI.

Eric Holder eyes 2020 presidential bid.  Former President Obama's long-serving attorney general, Eric Holder, is considering a political run in 2020, possibly for president.  "We'll see," he said when asked about a bid for the Democratic nomination.  Holder, addressing reporters at a media breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, said that he will make a decision this year.  "I think I'll make a decision by the end of the year about whether or not there is another chapter in my government service," he said.

Are You Ready for Eric Holder, Presidential Candidate?  Holder running for office — any office — would be a target-rich environment for Republicans.

Holder: DoJ wrong to apologize to tea party groups for IRS targeting.  [Eric] Holder said yesterday [2/7/2018] that apologizing to tea party groups for being targeted by the IRS for their political beliefs was "unnecessary, unfounded and inconsistent" with the responsibilities of someone who wants to lead the Justice Department. [...] Two federal judges specifically accused the IRS of targeting conservative groups based on their ideology.  If that doesn't warrant an apology from government, what does?

Obama-backed, Holder-led group raised more than $11 million in 2017; will target Republicans in 12 states.  A redistricting group that is backed by former President Barack Obama and led by former attorney general Eric Holder raised more than $11 million last year and has set a new fundraising goal of $30 million to help their upcoming efforts to target Republicans in 12 states.  The National Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a D.C.-based organization founded in 2016 that is chaired by Holder, is dedicated to "enacting a comprehensive, multi-cycle Democratic Party redistricting strategy."

Eric Holder for president?  Bring it on!  The ads write themselves.  Former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder raised eyebrows last week when he said that he may run for office, as in the Oval Office, and he'd make his final decision by the end of the year.  Given the trail of abuse and misconduct he left in his wake at the Justice Department, the opposing ads pretty much write themselves.  His time in the Obama administration was plagued with corruption that left a stain on the Justice Department, and he resigned with a dark cloud of scandal hovering over him.

DOJ to Release 'Fast & Furious' Documents Withheld by Eric Holder.  Last week, Obama had the audacity to claim, again, that his administration was scandal-free.  Yeah.  No.  And maybe now we can finally get the details of the Obama Administration's obscene 'Fast and Furious' scheme.

DOJ to give Oversight panel more 'Fast and Furious' documents.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Wednesday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will provide documents to Congress on the Obama-era program dubbed "Fast and Furious" that allowed criminals to purchase guns in Phoenix-based gun shops in order to track them into Mexico.  The Justice Department, then run by Eric Holder, declined to provide documents on the program to Congress in 2012 and was held in contempt of Congress.  Today's decision ends six years of litigation with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Everybody Knows.  [Scroll down]  Everybody knows that Barack Obama is doubly unaccountable.  He is unaccountable by physiognomy and by exquisite hypocrisy.  Holder and Lynch, both also double-unaccountables, subverted the justice system as Obama's attorneys general, criminally conspired in multiple ways for political ends.  Everybody knows that Obama knew about the illegally obtained FISA warrant to spy on Donald Trump.  National security adviser Susan Rice is a numbskull who was valued for race and for lying straight faced.  [...] Power corrupts.  Power plus unaccountability turns sophisticated people into incompetent criminals and the uneducated into destructive, foul-mouthed brats.  The Obama administration produced multitudes of both.

Exposing Eric Holder's Obstruction of Justice.  Have they no shame?  Just days before it was announced that documents regarding the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal were to be released after being hidden for six years under executive privilege, there was former Obama attorney general Eric Holder responding to a question on Bill Maher's show: [...]

Eric Holder In Hiding as DOJ to Release "Fast and Furious" Documents.  Holder's obstruction of justice and lying to Congress were crimes that went unpunished.  As Rep. Darrell Issa, who headed the House Oversight Committee during the Fast and Furious investigation, has noted.  But as with the current scandals involving Hillary Clinton and Uranium One, pay-for-play at the Clinton Foundation, and the corruption of the FISA court process by the FBI and DOJ to aid one party's attempt to collude with the Russians to overturn a sitting president, Holder was not counting on a Trump election to expose his corruption.

Eric Holder Comes Unglued After GOP House Intel Committee Rules No Trump-Russia Collusion.  House Intelligence Committee Republicans announced Monday [3/12/2018] that they found "no evidence of collusion," between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in the panel's 'Russia probe.'  The Deep State and Democrats aren't taking the news well.  Leaker Adam Schiff immediately blew a gasket and released a ridiculous statement claiming the Republicans don't care about the fact that the Russians may have leverage over Trump.  Former Attorney General Eric 'Fast and Furious' Holder was livid after the GOP House Intel panel shut down the Trump-Russia probe.

Holder group will fight citizenship question on census.  A Democratic group headed by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will go to court over a decision by the Commerce Department to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census.  Holder said Tuesday [3/27/2018] that the group, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, would fight the Trump administration's decision, arguing that including a citizenship question would drastically lower the response rate on the 2020 census and lead to an inaccurate count.  "We will litigate to stop the Administration from moving forward with this irresponsible decision," Holder said.  "The addition of a citizenship question to the census questionnaire is a direct attack on our representative democracy."

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Exactly the opposite is true.  Allowing non-citizens to live in this country illegally, and absorb all the handouts they can find, and vote, and affect the allocation of congressional districts, is a threat to our republic.

Eric Holder Would Run For President To Unify The Country.  Former Obama administration attorney general Eric Holder speculated this week on what would incentivize him to run for president.  Holder was asked in an interview with the New York Times about running for the highest office in the land.  The reporter asked, "If you were gonna do it, why would you do it.  If you didn't do it, why would you not do it?"  Holder said "If I were gonna do it, I'd do it because I would have concluded that maybe I could unify the country... help unify the country."  Holder said he could also "advance" and "repair" the country as president.  Holder said, "I had something to contribute, that would be the thing that would push me toward considering a run."

Eric Holder:  Crook.  Liar, Attorney General.  I watched as much as I could tolerate of the confirmation hearing for Eric Holder to be Attorney General in the Obama Administration.  He claimed that his participation in the last minute pardon of Marc Rich was "a mistake" and that he had "learned from it, and would be a better Attorney General because of it."  The nature of his mistake was that he "did not know" the details of Marc Rich's crimes and situation.  Let's examine those claims.

Eric Holder to Help Starbucks Train Employees For 'Racial Bias Education Day'.  On Tuesday [4/17/2018], Starbucks announced it will be closing 8,000 stores on May 29 so 175,000 employees can attend a training program that will address implicit bias, promote inclusion and help prevent discrimination, NBC reports.  Eric Holder was tapped as one of the 'experts' to assist with training the employees.  That's all you need to know.

Another sign Eric Holder might run for president.  Ex-Attorney General Eric Holder will speak at the annual New Hampshire "Politics & Eggs" breakfast hosted by Saint Anselm College and the New England Council, according to a report Wednesday [4/18/2018].  Holder said again this week that he was still considering a run for the presidency in 2020, and past speakers at the breakfast include President Trump, Hillary Clinton and presidential aspirants Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, The Hill reported.  Holder said on MSNBC's "All In with Chris Hayes" this week that he was "thinking about" a run but that he had not made a final decision.  Holder said in March he would only run if he believed he could unify the country against the Trump administration — a daunting task for former President Barack Obama's AG, a polarizing figure frequently demonized by Republicans.

Eric Holder for Prison, Not President.  If President Trump could hand-select his 2020 Democratic opponent, he could do no better than former Obama attorney general Eric Holder, the only Cabinet official held in contempt of Congress for withholding documents in the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal.  He is the poster child for the Deep State corruption that festered under Obama and the politicization of both the DOJ and FBI.  The former A.G., who is arguably responsible for the homicide of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, murdered by guns Holder and Obama funneled to Mexican drug lords, is in fact considering such a bid.

Here are 1,366 well sourced examples of Barack Obama's lies, lawbreaking, corruption, cronyism, hypocrisy, waste, etc..  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder lied under oath.  He said that he had nothing to do with monitoring the emails of Fox News reporter James Rosen.  But it turns out that it was Holder's own signature on the search warrant.  Even the liberal Huffington Post said that Holder should be fired over this.  Holder could get five years in prison.  So, did President Obama fire Holder?  Of course not!  Instead, Obama asked that Holder be investigated — not by an independent investigating committee — but by Holder himself!

It's Happening:  The Obama-Holder Progressive Left Counter-Offensive.  Former President Barack Obama and former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder have planned — and are leading — a massive counter-offensive to give the progressive left faction of the Democratic Party control of key state legislative bodies and state supreme courts in time for congressional redistricting after the 2020 census.  If they are successful, Democrats could well control the U.S. House of Representatives for the decade of the 20s and have in place a progressive left farm team from which to draw leftist national leaders for many years beyond.

Impeach Rod Rosenstein.  Lois Lerner, the former official at the heart of the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and Eric Holder, Barack Obama's attorney general, were each held in contempt by Congress.  But in both cases, Congress blinked when it came to imposing effective consequences.  In June 2012, Mr. Holder was held in contempt for withholding documents Congress wanted from the botched Fast and Furious operation that put firearms in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.  It was the first time Congress had taken such a move against a sitting cabinet member.  The first contempt resolution referred the attorney general for criminal charges, while a second launched a civil suit seeking a court to order Justice to turn over the documents.  The Obama Justice Department declined to act on the criminal referral — as everyone knew it would.  Though a judge would ultimately reject the administration's claims of executive privilege, the ruling didn't come until 2016. By that time Mr. Obama was wrapping up his second term, Mr. Holder had retired, and Fast and Furious had long since faded from the headlines.

Eric Holder's Gross Hypocrisy on Police Shootings.  Attorney General Eric Holder arrives today in Ferguson, Missouri, in response to the unrest after a local policeman shot 18-year-old Mike Brown.  Holder assured the people of Missouri:  "Our investigation into this matter will be full, it will be fair, and it will be independent."  But Holder's own record belies his lofty promise.  As the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 1993 to 1997, Holder was in charge of policing the local police.  When police violence spiraled out of control, he did little to protect Washington residents from rampaging lawmen.

Private Citizen Eric Holder Rants the Probe 'Must Stop'.  Private citizen Eric Holder ranted on Twitter that the probe by House Republicans of his former corrupt administration 'must stop'. His reasons are a sad commentary on the state of the Democratic Party.  No amount of evidence matters to them.  They are perfectly fine with a burgeoning police state.  The probe by the House investigators is 'unprecedented' he says.  That's true.  We never before had a fishing expedition by a tainted Special Counsel and unmasking and spying by a former leftist administration. [...] The DoJ probe is so tainted, there is no way most Americans will believe anything Mueller comes up with.  Holder tried to say the 'disclosure of ongoing investigative material' is 'unprincipled'.  That's rich coming from the guy who released FALN terrorists, Mark Rich, and New Black Panthers with billy clubs at a polling place in Philly.

Eric Holder says he's interested in being president.  Cincinnati Democrats wasted no time with Eric Holder.  "Do you at least have any interest in being president of the United States?" City Councilman Wendell Young asked him Friday — the first question to the former US attorney general as a who's who of Democrats in the Cincinnati area sat in a cramped law office conference room.  After his standard caveats — he says it's something he needs to talk about with his family and won't actually decide on until early 2019 — a confident Holder leaned in.  "Am I interested it?" he asked.  "Yeah, I'm interested!"

Six Times the Obama Administration Should Have Appointed Special Counsel.  [#4] The IRS scandal:  Using the IRS to target Obama's political enemies during an election year?  Obama did try to distance himself from the scandal but according to a report, IRS employees were "acutely" aware that Obama wanted a crackdown on conservative and Tea Party groups, and Douglas Shulman, the IRS commissioner, visited the White House a whopping 157 times (more than anyone in Obama's cabinet) while the IRS abuses occurred.  Gee, do you think there's a potential conflict of interest here?  Unlike other scandals where investigations were left to Republicans in Congress, the Obama administration did investigate the IRS scandal... did you know about this?  Yep, Attorney General Eric Holder appointed a DOJ lawyer to run the investigation.  Her main qualification was that she was an Obama donor, and within a few short days of her appointment, it was announced the FBI was not planning to file any criminal charges connected to the scandal.  Of course not.

Eric Holder says MAGA slogan is 'rooted in fear'.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder slammed the mindset of "Make America Great Again," President Trump's signature slogan, according to a report.  "This sort of thinking, this 'Make America Great' mindset is not only flawed, it's rooted in fear.  And it favors an imagined past over a realistic future," Holder said while speaking at the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner late Saturday, according to The Hill.  Holder — who has said he is considering a run for president in 2020 — also asked what time period those who want to "make America great again" would rewind to if given the opportunity.

Newly Released Eric Holder Memo:  Feds Can Use FISA to Spy on Journalists.  The federal government can use the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on journalists.  So said a pair of 2015 Justice Department memos, including one from then-Attorney General Eric Holder.  FISA is controversial in itself.  The act is supposed to be used to justify surveillance on foreign targets.  But as Reason's Scott Shackford has explained, intelligence agencies often use it to secretly spy on American citizens, sometimes without a warrant.  According to the newly released documents, obtaining permission to surveil members of the media is not easy, but it is possible.  In one memo, dated March 19, Holder says FISA applications against journalists must be approved by the attorney general and deputy attorney general prior to being brought before a FISA court.

Eric Holder as President?  Eric Holder has decided to run for president to complete the work of converting America to an openly recognized communist country.  But, he has a few things to answer for before he takes control of the entire law enforcement apparatus of the United States and begins his war on whites.  If you recall, he refused to arrest the Black Panthers standing outside of a voting center when Barack Obama was elected.  It was obvious voter intimidation, but by claiming that worse had been done to "his" people, he would not prosecute.

Eric Holder:  When Republicans Go Low, 'We Kick Them'; Crowd Chants, "Fight!  Fight!  Fight!"  Not only are the left-wing shock troops on the ground chasing Republicans out of restaurants, pounding on cars, and cracking skulls, the Democrat leaders are calling for violence.  Dem Congresswoman Maxine Waters previously called for members of the Trump cabinet to be harassed everywhere they go.  Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton also said this week that Democrats can't be civil with Republicans.

So I Guess the New Democratic Party Platform Is Violence?  Recently, Eric Holder, former attorney general for Obama, stopped to speak at a political event for Stacy Abrams who is running for governor in Georgia.  Holder told the crowd, "When they go low, you kick them," referring to Republicans.  His comment was made after the media has approved and encouraged attacking or harassing Trump supporters at least 594 times.  This type of language is dangerous and reckless in our current political state.  However, Holder does not seem to mind if anyone gets hurt as long as the left gets power.

Eric Holder Rallies Resistance Inside Trump Admin: 'We Support You'.  Former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. sent a message of encouragement to discontented Justice Department "career employees" on Friday morning [10/19/2018].  "Trump and Sessions are trying to destroy the traditions of the Justice Department," Holder wrote.  "Hope is found in the career employees who stand for institutional norms.  Now is the time for them to continue to be strong — change will come.  We support you."  Holder recently made news by pressing for the impeachment of President Trump under the 25th amendment.

Obama's Organizing for America joins forces with Eric Holder-run group on voter activism.  Former President Obama announced Thursday [12/20/2018] that his political operation, Organizing for America, would be joining forces with the group run by his former attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., in a striking pre-2020 partnership.  The two men announced the decision in emails to their respective supporters, saying it means Mr. Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee will now have access to Mr. Obama's powerful grassroots network.

Department Of Justice Continues To Run Interference For The Obama Administration.  [Scroll down]  There are lots of "cooperating witnesses" an boodles of physical evidence but the fly in the ointment is that El Chapo has a history of being a customer of Eric Holder's Justice Department.  Under Holder, the only Attorney General to ever be cited for criminal contempt by the Houses of Representatives, El Chapo was allowed to buy a massive amount of firepower from gun stores in the United States using straw-buyers and using gun stores who were cooperating with the federal government under what was known as Operation Fast and Furious.  Several of those weapons were recovered from El Chapo's headquarters when he was arrested.  Federal prosecutors don't want the jury of rubes to hear about it.  I say rubes because that is plainly how the federal prosecutors see the jury.

New Attorney General Needs To Clean House.  The liberal direction of the DOJ is nothing new.  In the Obama administration, then Attorney General Eric Holder was a liberal activist instead of the nation's top law enforcement officer.  Holder infamously labeled America "a nation of cowards" for not having the courage to discuss race relations.  Thereafter, he spent his entire tenure obsessively focused on race.  It was certainly a questionable decision when his department decided not to prosecute members of the Black Panthers who were threatening voters and armed with a weapon at a precinct in Philadelphia.  He made sure that no investigations ever touched President Obama, since he promised to be his "wing man."

Eric Holder calls for an end to the electoral college: 'It's undemocratic'.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder, who is considering a 2020 presidential bid, called Tuesday to abolish the electoral college, saying it's a "vestige of the past."  "It's undemocratic, forces candidates to ignore majority of the voters and campaign in a small number of states.  The presidency is our one national office and should be decided - directly - by the voters," Mr. Holder said on Twitter.  The potential Democratic presidential candidate issued the tweet while linking to an article from The Washington Post that notes nearly a dozen traditionally blue states have passed legislation to circumvent the electoral college.

Eric Holder goes on MAGA-rant that takes a dark turn: 'Exactly when did you think America was great?'.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder fired a shot at America's past as he questioned the thoughts behind President Trump's "Make America Great Again" slogan[.]  Holder declared that America's greatness "never, in fact, really existed" during an interview on MSNBC's "The Beat With Ari Melber" on Wednesday [3/27/2019].  The Obama-era attorney general, who has decided not to run as a Democratic presidential candidate for 2020 so he can focus on issues like partisan redistricting and criminal justice reform, was expounding on those topics when host Ari Melber asked about America's past.

They don't believe in America.  Eric Holder was born in the Bronx at a great time to be a black American.  Second-class citizenship ended when he was 13.  After graduating from Stuyvesant High School, he went on to Columbia University, followed by Columbia Law School.  By the time he graduated in 1976, he had interned at the NAACP and the U.S. Attorney's office.  Holder would become the first black attorney general, having been appointed by the first black president.  And yet, Holder tweeted sarcastically, "Exactly when do you think America was great?"

Eric Holder wants Mueller report out, but argued against full transparency after Starr report.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder joined the chorus Democrats calling for the full release of special counsel Robert Mueller's final report, but in the wake of the Starr report he made the opposite argument.  Speaking with Ari Mebler on MSNBC last Monday, Holder said, "You look at the letter and you're trying to figure how much of this is Barr, how much of this is Mueller, how much of this is based on the Mueller findings? ... Congress and the public are going to have to get access to the Mueller report."  Yet back in 1999, when he was deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, Holder's position was starkly different.

Obama AG Eric Holder Says Stacey Abrams Won Georgia Gov. Election.  Former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder said he believes Stacey Abrams (D.) won the Georgia governor's race in 2018, where the final certified election results showed Republican Brian Kemp winning with 55,000 more votes.  "I tend to think Stacey Abrams won that election, you know?" Holder said to The Root.  In making that claim, Holder echoed other prominent Democrats in suggesting that Kemp's role as secretary of state was a factor in the outcome.  "I think the way it was conducted, the — her opponent remaining as secretary of state, basically being the referee until about the last week of the election, certainly gave the appearance of unfairness, and I think it was unfairness."  Abrams has never conceded the race, and has also maintained on several occasions that she won.

Forget Trump, Here Are Five Reasons Why Obama Should Have Been Impeached.  Midway through his second term, more than half of the nation's inspectors general wrote a letter to Congress accusing the Obama administration of systemic obstruction of ongoing investigations.  That letter should have resulted in the appointment of a special counsel, but Attorney General Eric Holder, who famously called himself Obama's wingman, wasn't going to let that happen.  In fact, neither Holder or Loretta Lynch, Obama's second attorney general, ever appointed a special counsel, despite ample times where one should have been appointed.  Obama didn't just appoint attorneys general to lead the Justice Department, he appointed protectors to keep Obama from being held accountable for corruption.

Obama crony Eric Holder should stop lecturing William Barr on legal ethics.  I hereby nominate Eric Holder for the inaugural Nobel Prize for Chutzpah.  Obama's initial attorney general, the first black American to hold that office, has a ton of nerve to lecture Attorney General William Barr about releasing the Mueller Report.  "The attorney general of the United States is the people's lawyer, not the president's lawyer," Holder said Thursday [4/25/2019] in Chicago's Rogers Park district.  "You have a responsibility to run the Justice Department in a way that is not political."  This is not the same Holder who served Obama.

Democrats Accuse AG Barr of Doing Exactly What Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch Did for Obama.  Neither [Eric] Holder nor [Loretta] Lynch should have been confirmed as U.S. attorney general in the first place given their radical pasts.  In 1970, Eric Holder was the leader of a black separatist group at Columbia University called the Student Afro-American Society (SAAS).  As part of the group, Holder participated in a five-day armed takeover of an abandoned ROTC office on the Columbia University campus.  He was also a hardcore left-wing partisan who disparaged conservatives and, as deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton, played a major role in the pardoning of Weather Underground terrorists.  Holder's radical past set the tone for his tenure at the Justice Department, which was defined by politics, not blind justice.  One of the earliest scandals of the Obama presidency was Holder's decision not to prosecute New Black Panther Party members over voter intimidation during the 2008 election.  Holder was also behind the stonewalling of many investigations, which prompted 47 (out of 73) inspectors general to write a letter to Congress informing them of the systemic obstruction.  Holder clearly saw his job as Obama's protector and refused to cooperate with congressional investigations, resulting in his being held in contempt of Congress.  Holder also funneled billions of dollars to left-wing groups in a huge slush fund scheme.  Holder's politicization of the Department of Justice is undeniable.

Why are so many Democrats so reprehensible in exactly the same way?  [Eric] Holder actually was in contempt of Congress for authentic scandals involving deaths of Americans, such as Operation Fast and Furious.  Barr is not.  Unlike Holder, Barr is the smartest lawyer in the room.  He knows, as does any sentient legal scholar, that to give the House Judiciary Committee what they are asking for — names of intelligence assets, legally protected grand jury testimony — would be breaking the law.  The Democrats with their handmaidens in the media are manufacturing a "constitutional crisis" simply to hound the president and prolong the collusion hoax as long as possible.

Democratic smears of Bill Barr would be more accurately applied to Obama's AGs.  William Barr has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate four times, has served two U.S. presidents, and has proven himself to be a consummate professional who deeply respects the great responsibilities and boundaries of the office of the attorney general.  Considering the turbulent tenures of President Obama's two attorneys general, Democrats' partisan attacks on Barr's honesty and transparency should fall on deaf ears.  To refresh your memory, Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, became embroiled in a scandal when guns illegally sold to Mexican drug cartels by the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) were found at the scene of the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

William Barr vs.  Eric Holder:  A Tale of Two Attorneys General.  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has declared it a "constitutional crisis" that Attorney General William Barr refuses to divulge the small parts of the Mueller report that contain grand-jury material.  By a straight party-line vote, the House Judiciary Committee voted to hold Barr in contempt of Congress.  What did Pelosi think when Barr's predecessor, Eric Holder, refused to divulge documents to a congressional committee and was held in contempt?  "Ridiculous!" she said.  What did Holder and Obama say?  That the House subpoena was a violation of "separation of powers."  To partisans, the difference between the cases is obvious.  Barr is defending Trump; Holder was Obama's self-proclaimed "wing man."

Hey Joe Biden, Here Are Some Scandals You Forgot.  [Scroll down]  How many Americans knew, for instance, that "Operation Fast and Furious" put around 2,000 weapons into the hands of narco-traffickers (and an Islamic terrorist), leading to the murder of hundreds of Mexican citizens, and at least one American, a border agent named Brian Terry?  Not enough.  There must have been at least a sniff of scandal, by the way, because even after a federal judge rejected Obama's assertion of executive privilege in efforts to deny Congress files relating to the operation, the administration wouldn't budge.  Obama's attorney general, Eric Holder, refused to cooperate in the investigation, becoming the first sitting attorney general in American history to be held in contempt of Congress — a vote that included 17 Democrats.  That's odd, because today asserting executive privilege is exactly like Watergate.  And ignoring courts?  Well, Obama did that all the time.

Americans for Limited Government Requests Docs Relating to DOJ Bribery Under Eric Holder.  The Americans for Limited Government requested documents Tuesday [7/23/2019] relating to an Obama-era corruption case at then-Attorney General Eric Holder's Department of Justice.  The Americans for Limited Government requested documents pursuant to the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request relating to "alleged public corruption, abuse of power, misuse of power or the otherwise compromised status" as well as "alleged acceptance of bribes" by Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officials.

Holder tells Dems to stop badmouthing Obama's legacy.  In this week's Democratic presidential debate sweepstakes, candidate after candidate predictably trashed the legacy of a contemporary U.S. president.  No, astonishingly it wasn't Donald John Trump.  It was, wait for it, Barack Obama.  This surprise dissing of Obama's legacy did not escape the notice of his original Attorney General, the still-reprehensible Eric Holder.

Obama's 'Wingman' Eric Holder Says an Attorney General Has to 'Appear to Be Neutral'.  In addition to obstruction investigations, as attorney general, Eric Holder launched bogus investigations into administration corruption and obstructed dozens more, including the investigation of his inexplicable dropping of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, the Iran ransom scandal, and Benghazi.  In August 2014, 47 of 73 inspectors general wrote an open letter to Congress informing them that the Obama administration was obstructing their investigations.  Holder also lied to Congress about Fast and Furious and refused to provide documents to Congress for their investigation, prompting a historic contempt vote.  "I think when people look at the Justice Department and think that it's in some ways politicized, that has a negative long-term impact on the department," Holder said.  We can thank him and Barack Obama for that.  They politicized the Justice Department in an unprecedented fashion.

Reports: Eric Holder Considers Jumping into 2020 Presidential Primary.  Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is again considering running for the Democrat nomination for president in 2020 after previously ruling out a run, a move that comes as former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has filed presidential primary paperwork in Alabama signaling he may be a late entrant to the race.

Obama Better Hope Eric Holder Doesn't Jump into the 2020 Presidential Race.  Rumors have been going around for a while now, but MSNBC analyst Eugene Robinson is now claiming that Obama's first attorney general, Eric Holder, is considering joining the 2020 presidential race.  "It gets even more interesting," Robinson said in a tweet Thursday evening.  "I hear from a good source that Eric Holder has been consulting strategists about possibly jumping into the Dem presidential race." [...] According to reports, Barack Obama didn't want Joe Biden to run for president because of what that might do to his presidential legacy.  I can only imagine that Obama wouldn't be too thrilled about Holder jumping into the race, considering Holder was his partner in crime, and Holder jumping into the race could bring all that stuff out.

Eric Holder Says Bill Barr Is Too Political to Be Attorney General.  This week, the only attorney general to be held in contempt of Congress accused the sitting attorney general of being "unfit to lead the Justice Department."  Yes, Eric Holder said William Barr is too political to serve as attorney general. [...] Eric Holder should know.  Few attorneys general have been as shamelessly partisan in support of their president as he was.  When Holder announced his retirement from DOJ in 2014, Nick Gillespie, the libertarian editor-in-chief at Reason.com, bade him good riddance.  "Holder's tenure has been marked by a disturbing mix of duplicity, incompetence, and obliviousness," Gillespie wrote.

Obama 'Wingman' Holder Calls AG Barr 'Nakedly Partisan'.  Obama picked Holder for the job in no small part because of his proven willingness to do a president's dirty work and keep his mouth shut.  Holder made his bones as deputy attorney general in the waning days of the Clinton administration when he orchestrated the scandalous pardoning of fugitive billionaire Marc Rich.  At the time of his nomination to head the Justice Department eight years later, even the New York Times had misgivings about Holder.  Times reporters acknowledged that Holder was "deeply involved" in the Rich affair.  And although they daintily use words like "blemish" and "misstep" to describe Holder's corrupt acts, the reporters document in detail his two years of maneuvering to sidestep outraged New York prosecutors and spring the wildly undeserving Rich.  Had Obama not played the race card adeptly, Holder would never have been confirmed as attorney general.  Once confirmed as AG, Holder himself played that card until he wore the spots off.

Barack Obama Fundamentally Transformed the United States of America; Read this Amazing Thread.  Five days before Barack Obama won the presidency, he told supporters, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America."  Unfortunately, he was telling the truth.  It's become glaringly obvious that the Department of Justice changed "fundamentally" during the Obama years.  It didn't become so highly politicized by accident.  The following thread from The Epoch Times' Jeff Carlson shows how, by deliberately following the policies formulated by Obama and carried out his attorney general, Eric Holder (and continued by his successor, Loretta Lynch), over an eight year period, the transformation was accomplished.  Due to the strict, highly political hiring practices enacted by Holder and then Lynch, most, if not all, of the department's employees were Democrats by the time President Trump took office.

Eric Holder tells journalist Paul Sperry to 'shut [...] up' about prosecutor in Andrew McCabe probe.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder lashed out at journalist and author Paul Sperry on Twitter Wednesday [2/19/2020], telling Sperry that he should "shut [...] up" about federal prosecutor Molly Gaston's donations to former President Barack Obama.  On Tuesday, Sperry had tweeted that Gaston, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington D.C., had signed off on a letter informing the attorney for former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe that the government would not pursue charges against McCabe.  Sperry tweeted that Gaston "is [a] Democrat who's given thousands to Dems including Obama & who once worked for Dem side of House Oversight & whose mother worked for WaPo [The Washington Post]."

Here's How Eric Holder Helped the Obama Administration Transform the Democratic Party into a Party of Thugs.  It was during the Obama Administration that civility between the two parties truly became a vestige of the past.  Obama's eight years in office fundamentally changed the order of business in Washington.  It was then that the Democratic Party morphed into a party of thugs.  And it didn't happen by accident.  Their objective was to fill the government and its agencies with as many liberals as they possibly could, politicizing them.  They worked toward their goal deliberately and methodically throughout Obama's presidency.  It had all begun with an agreement between Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder.  (And it continued under his successor, Loretta Lynch.)  Federal law prohibited the administration from basing hiring decisions on political affiliation, but Obama, Holder and Lynch easily found ways to get around that.

Eric Holder:  Coronavirus is 'an opportunity' to permanently change US voting system.  Former President Barack Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder acknowledged that he sees the coronavirus as "an opportunity" to change the way U.S. citizens vote forever.  "Coronavirus gives us an opportunity to revamp our electoral system so that it permanently becomes more inclusive and becomes easier for the American people to access," Holder told Time magazine.  Holder went on to say that he supports shifting toward a system with more mail-in ballots.

Open Memorandum to Barack Obama.  [Scroll down]  [I]t would seem your "wingman" Eric Holder is missing a step these days at Covington & Burling LLP.  Indelibly marked in his memory (and one might think, yours) should be his Motion to Dismiss the multi-count jury verdict of guilty and the entire case against former United States Senator Ted Stevens.  Within weeks of Mr. Holder becoming Attorney General, he moved to dismiss the Stevens prosecution in the interest of justice for the same reasons the Justice Department did against General Flynn — egregious misconduct by prosecutors who hid exculpatory evidence and concocted purported crimes.  As horrifying as the facts of the Stevens case were, they pale in comparison to the targeted setup, framing, and prosecution of a newly elected President's National Security Advisor and the shocking facts that surround it.  This case was an assault on the heart of liberty — our cherished system of self-government, the right of citizens to choose their President, and the hallowed peaceful transition of power.

No Holds Barred at the House Lynch Session.  [Scroll down]  And Eric Holder?  He's the one who publicly tells audiences to physically kick their opponents.  He's the mastermind at Justice who came up with the idea of passing along deadly firearms to Mexican drug cartels so we can follow them.  Fast and Furious.  And then that inept Attorney General, Obama's self-described "wing man," lost sight of the weapons until one was used to murder an American border security agent, Brian Terry.  Of more than 2,000 guns that Holder sent the drug cartels, only 710 were recovered.  He ultimately backed down on prosecuting the New Black Panther Party for its voter intimidation in Philadelphia.  Two members of the Party had stood outside a polling station during the election in paramilitary uniforms, one carrying a nightstick.  This was the same Holder who called us a "nation of cowards."

Former Attorney General Eric Holder Urges Democrats to Pack the Supreme Court.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder urged Democrats to "use the power" of their new majority to pack the Supreme Court.  In a virtual conference on judicial reform hosted by the Brookings Institution on Monday [1/25/2021], Holder said Democrats need to act now that they have control of the White House and Congress.  "It is painfully clear, at least to me, that Democrats and progressives are, and have been, uncomfortable with the acquisition and the use of power ... Republicans and conservatives never have been," Holder said.

Eric Holder tells Dems to "use the power" of their majority to stack the court.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder urged Democrats to "use the power" of their U.S. Senate majority to pack the Supreme Court and the federal judiciary.  The Supreme Court is the only body that protects the civil rights of Americans.  Stacking it would mean transforming it into another leftist legislative body.  "It is painfully clear Democrats and progressives are uncomfortable with the acquisition and use of power, while Republicans and conservatives never have been," Holder said during a virtual conference on judicial reform hosted by the Brookings Institution.  "Our courts badly need reforms."

Is mob justice now poetic justice?  In 2012, Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before at Northwestern University Law School to announce President Obama's "kill list" policy, under which he reserved the right to unilaterally order the death of any American deemed an imminent threat.  After all, Holder explained, "the Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process."  The response was as chilling as the message:  The audience of judges, lawyers and law students applauded an attorney general who just told them that any of them could be killed tomorrow on the president's order.  Some of us denounced the "kill list" policy, which foreshadowed what has become a campaign against due process.  In our hair-triggered culture of Twitter attacks and "canceling" opponents, due process is treated as hopelessly arcane and inconvenient.  Our political discourse must now be tweet-worthy — less than 280 words — and delivered in a news cycle measured in minutes.

Swiss Billionaire Gave Millions to Eric Holder's Partisan Gerrymandering Group.  A liberal Swiss billionaire known for meddling in U.S. elections has funneled millions of dollars to former attorney general Eric Holder's effort to redraw electoral maps in favor of Democrats, newly obtained documents reveal.  The Berger Action Fund, the advocacy arm of Swiss megadonor Hansjörg Wyss's Wyss Foundation, passed $3 million to the National Redistricting Action Fund (NRAF) between 2018 and 2020.  The NRAF is the 501(c)(4) lobbying arm of Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee, a self-described "centralized hub for executing a comprehensive redistricting strategy" to give Democrats an edge in congressional races.  Holder, who chairs the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, launched the group in 2017 with the goal of electing Democratic majorities in state legislatures in order to control the 2021-2022 redistricting process.

How Did Ordinary American People Become Domestic Terrorists in The Eyes of The Deep State.  Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act.  Instead, what Obama and Holder did was to take the preexisting system and retool it so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum. [...] What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system.  This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline.  Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01.  DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.  When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition.

The DOJ is a swamp.  [Thread reader]  Under Obama, the DOJ was fundamentally pushed to the left by Attorney General Eric Holder and then by his successor, Loretta Lynch.  Sally Yates rounded out the Obama appointed DOJ leadership.  Holder came up w/process for doling out settlements from the financial crisis to activist groups.  Holder presided over unlawful investigation of certain members of media.  Under Holder's control, DOJ secretly obtained two months of telephone records of AP reporters & editors.  DOJ also monitored the personal email and phone of Fox News reporter James Rosen.  And it was Holder who refused to prosecute anyone in the IRS targeting of 426 conservative groups during the Obama Administration.  The FBI found Hillary Clinton guilty of essentially every act they investigated.  Despite these findings, Comey cleared Clinton by making a statement that "no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case".  This allowed Loretta Lynch at DOJ to announce the matter closed.

Barack Obama Hosting Martha's Vineyard Fundraiser for Eric Holder's Army of Election Workers.  Former President Barack Obama will host a fundraiser for his former Attorney General Eric Holder's redistricting committee on August 30th, in a major step forward for Democrats in the midterms.  The fundraiser for Holder's National Democratic Redistricting Committee will feature a dinner and a discussion about democracy, supporting legal efforts to help Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections, according to Politico's Playbook.  The event will take place at Martha's Vineyard.

Not Just The FBI: Institutions Across The Board Have Forfeited America's Trust.  In 2012, then-Attorney General Eric Holder refused to provide information to Congress on the government's ill-thought-out "Fast and Furious" program.  He was held in contempt of Congress, and there are indications that he may have committed perjury when he denied knowing about the program.  Lucky for him, he never received the Steve Bannon treatment.

If 'No One Is Above The Law,' Democrats And Their Partisan Pawns Would Be Arraigned, Not Trump.  Former Attorney General Eric Holder misled Congress during its investigation of the Obama-era "Fast and Furious" gun-running scandal, which used taxpayer dollars to put guns into the hands of Mexican drug lords.  Holder was held in contempt, but that's pretty much the only punishment he received for intentionally dodging subpoenas and hiding documents from congressional oversight.

The Intel Agencies of Government Are Fully Weaponized.  In the era shortly after 9/11, the DC national security apparatus was constructed to preserve continuity of government and simultaneously view all Americans as potential threats.  The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) were created specifically for this purpose.  What Barack Obama and Eric Holder did with that new construct was refine the internal targeting mechanisms so that only their ideological opposition became the target of the new national security system.  This is very important to understand as you dig deeper into this research outline.  Washington DC created the modern national security apparatus immediately and hurriedly after 9/11/01.  DHS came along in 2002, and within the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 the ODNI was formed.  When Barack Obama and Eric Holder arrived a few years later, those newly formed institutions were viewed as opportunities to create a very specific national security apparatus that would focus almost exclusively against their political opposition. [...] The DHS, ODNI, DOJ and FBI became the four pillars of this new institution.  Atop these pillars is where you will find the Fourth Branch of Government.

The Culmination of Marxist Infiltration, Part 1.  President Reagan appointed Holder as a District of Columbia superior court associate judge.  Clinton made him U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and then tapped him for deputy attorney general under Janet Reno.  Holder met Obama in 2004 and they immediately clicked.  He had been a student radical at Columbia and belonged to a militant group tied to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).  He became a fanatical devotee of the Black Panthers who embraced Marxism-Leninism and openly called for Maoist-style guerilla warfare in the United States.  Holder became part of the armed mob that took over a vacant Naval ROTC office for a five-day occupation.  They wanted the space because of "the general racist nature of American society," and claimed Columbia was also racist.  With Obama, Holder returned to his radical roots.  He clashed with Republican legislators in the wake of Operation Fast and Furious, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives investigation of gun trafficking on the U.S.-Mexico border from late 2009 to early 2011.  Border agent Brian Terry died as a result.

Democrats Have Put Corrupt Obama AG Eric Holder in Charge of Vetting VP Candidates for Kamala Harris.  Democrats have reportedly put Obama's corrupt attorney general Eric Holder in charge of vetting VP candidates for Kamala Harris.  What could possibly go wrong?  How much do you suppose Democrats are paying Holder's law firm for this service?

The Editor says...
The candidates are supposed to be selected by the rank-and-file voters, not an elite committee.  That's why they call the process "democratic."

Heroes and Villains.  [Scroll down]  Just yesterday, former Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking of Mr. Trump returning to office, told MSNBC's Jen Psaki:  "They will use the mechanisms of the DOJ to go after people who are their political foes.  This is something that has never really happened in the history of this republic."  Mr. Holder may have been born at night, but probably not the night before last.  Apparently, he has not noticed the uses to which current AG Merrick Garland has put "Joe Biden's" DOJ, bending heaven, earth, and the law to put Mr. Trump behind bars and bankrupt him — not to mention the scores of Trump-adjacent lawyers prosecuted in cockamamie cases based on their efforts to pursue ballot fraud in the 2020 elections.

What Part of Mandate Don't You Understand?  You understand, of course, that the federal bureaucracy is a perverse reincarnation of the old 19th century "Spoils System," an entrenched, self-replicating matrix of parasites.  Both parties have nourished it, but the Democrats have made it their extra-special pet since Mr. Obama was in charge of things.  He and his AG Eric Holder arranged for the DOJ to target their political enemies and for the FBI to mutate into a US-KGB, and that behavior persisted for eight long years since Obama and Holder left the scene.  The malice all flowed from those departments, since any opponent of the Party's agenda could get lawfared, financially drained, and put out of business.  The party's sole agenda, really, was to just feed the bureaucratic parasite, and grow it ever-larger and more dependent on the party in order to increase its power.

Obama's Corrupt AG Eric Holder Rants About Billionaires in Swipe at Trump's Transition Team.  Obama's corrupt Attorney General Eric "Fast & Furious" Holder ranted about billionaires in a swipe to Trump's transition team.  Trump has tapped billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the elitist Democrat ruling class is lashing out because they are losing control.  President Trump has also appointed billionaire Linda McMahon, and multi-millionaires Steve Witkoff and Doug Bergum to Cabinet positions.  Eric Holder blasted billionaires in a post on X.  [Advertisement]  "I'm tired of the word "billionaire," Eric Holder said on Elon Musk's X.  "And even more tired of them."  "And tired of the increasingly accepted notion that they have some special skills or insights simply because they know how to legitimately/illegitimately accumulate money," Holder said.  "They ain't all that," he added.  [Advertisement]  [Tweet]  Then these pictures surfaced... Billionaire George Soros's son, Alexander Soros, held a fundraiser at his home for Eric Holder's gerrymandering group.  Eric Holder was all smiles as he rubbed elbows with billionaire Soros and [...] Barack Obama.