Obama’s Department of Politics
We’ve written repeatedly about President Obama’s politicization of the Department of Justice under Eric Holder. In this week’s Weekly Standard, Jennifer Rubin does a fine job of recapitulating the case so far. Given that we are barely six months into Obama’s term, the picture is a stark one. Signs of overt partisanship [...]
Voter intimidation ok with Obama-Holder Justice Department if done by its side
We wrote here and here about the Justice Department’s dismissal of a voter intimidation case against a group of armed Black Panthers who threatened would-be voters outside a polling place in Philadelphia. The Justice Department won the case after the defendants defaulted (a wise move by them, it turns out), but decided [...]
Just the facts and the law, ma’am
I don’t think we’ve covered it, but the biggest story of the past few days may turn out to reports that Attorney General Holder is inclined to appoint a prosecutor to examine the actions of those who interrogated terrorists during the Bush administration. The Washington Post writes about this today in a story [...]
