“Judicial Watch’s records request is designed to expose how California state legislators are wasting tax dollars to take care of another corrupt politician – Eric Holder – under the guise of resisting the rule of law on immigration and other matters,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “His record at the Clinton and Obama Justice Departments demonstrates a willingness to bend the law in order to protect his political patrons.”
Obama 'Wingman' Holder Calls AG Barr 'Nakedly Partisan'
In a Washington Post op-ed Barack Obama’s attorney general Eric Holder call Bill Barr “so nakedly partisan” he is “unfit” to serve as President Trump’s attorney general.
As we’d say in New Jersey, “Da Noive!” A quick review of Holder’s record shows him to be the most nakedly partisan attorney general since JFK picked baby brother Bobby for the job a half-century prior.
As late as 2013, Holder was boasting about his partisanship. When asked whether he would continue on as Obama’s attorney general after the reelection, Holder famously replied, “I’m still the President’s wingman. So I’m there with my boy.” Forget “wingman.” The very use of the word “boy” would have caused a scandal had someone less privileged said it.
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.
Wingman Holder got right to work. In January 2009, before Holder took office, the Department of Justice (DoJ) had filed a civil suit against the National Black Panther Party and several of its members for the Election Day harassment of voters at a Philadelphia polling station. Veteran civil rights attorney Bartle Bull called their action "the most blatant form of voter intimidation I've ever seen."
When none of the named individuals appeared in federal district court to answer the suit, it seemed certain the DoJ would prevail by default. By this time, however, Holder’s people had taken over the department, and they ordered prosecutors to abandon all action against the Panthers. “For the first time in our lifetime the power of the administration of the United States was working against the Voting Right Act,” said Bull. “They were protecting the people who were abusing the law.”
Holder promptly chastised Bull, who is white, for comparing the Panthers’ intimidation to that inflicted in the 1960s South on what Holder called “my people.” In fact, Bull knew those people. Holder did not. In the 1960s, Bull served as a civil rights lawyer in Mississippi and was arrested for his troubles. In the 1960s, Holder, the son of immigrants from Barbados, was attending a prestigious high school in New York City. The media chose not to notice any of this.
The media chose not to notice Holder’s role in the lethal gun-walking fiasco known as “Fast and Furious.” In May 2011, when the House Judiciary Committee asked Holder when he first knew about the program, he said, “I probably heard about Fast and Furious over the last few weeks.”
In fact, Mexican bandits using Fast and Furious weapons killed border agent Brian Terry five months prior. CBS began running Sharyl Attkisson’s reports on Fast and Furious three months prior. Obama told a Mexican audience that Holder launched an investigation six weeks prior. And yet Holder claimed to have learned of the operation a few weeks after he allegedly started investigating it. In time, the House would cite Holder for contempt, the first attorney general ever to suffer that fate, and Obama had to invoke executive privilege for the first and only time in his presidency. The media shrugged.
A notorious procrastinator on issues unfavorable to the White House like “Fast and Furious,” Holder did not take long to weigh the pros and cons of the shooting death of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in late February 2012. Within weeks, the FBI, the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida had all announced they would investigate a non-federal offense. Holder also sent the DoJ’s Community Relation Service to Florida to help the locals organize protests demanding the arrest and prosecution of a conspicuously innocent man.
Hoping to turn a local issue into a federal one, FBI agents questioned individuals in an Orwellian "parallel investigation" that focused less on Zimmerman’s actions that fateful night than on his thoughts, past and present. Did he really say “coon” on his call to the dispatcher? Had he ever told a racial joke? Were the suspicious persons he reported to the police disproportionately black? Once again, however, the feds turned a blind eye to the New Black Panthers who put a ten-thousand-dollar bounty on Zimmerman’s head without consequence.
Although Zimmerman was rightfully acquitted in a state court, Holder and his DoJ had stirred enough doubt to assure fury over the acquittal. Black Lives Matter (BLM) was created in response. In 2014, BLM took its show on the road to Ferguson, Missouri. There, with more than a little encouragement from Holder and Obama, BLM set in motion an anti-police movement that led directly to a major homicide spike in black communities nationwide.
Holder had far less interest in investigating the IRS agents who suppressed the tea party movement during Obama’s first term. The public face of the scandal, political appointee Lois Lerner, eventually pled the Fifth Amendment lest she incriminate herself and was declared in contempt of Congress. Throughout the congressional investigation, however, the DoJ did little but obstruct.
When the House subpoenaed Lerner’s emails, the IRS claimed the hard drive crashed, and the emails were lost. Allegedly unable to access the emails, a DoJ investigation came to naught. Wrote Assistant Attorney General Peter Kadzik, “Not a single IRS employee reported any allegation, concern or suspicion that the handling of tax-exempt applications -- or any other IRS function -- was motivated by political bias, discriminatory intent, or corruption." Wingman Holder could not have said it better himself.
Space does not permit a full accounting of Holder’s blemishes and missteps, but books could be written about the outrageous Pigford settlement, the refusal to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, the equally unconstitutional implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and the White House spying on unfriendly reporters, in all of which Holder played a major role.
Although Holder left office in April 2015 before Spygate gained steam, his influence lingered on. Consider this gem from an otherwise benign Washingtonian article on the friendship between Jim Comey and Robert Mueller, “Both men were rising stars mentored and guided by Eric Holder in the 1990s during Holder’s time in the Justice Department under the Clinton administration.”
Why does that not surprise us?
Jack Cashill’s new book, Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency will be released in the spring. Signed copies of his novel, The Hunt, are available at www.TheHuntBook.com.
“Judicial
Watch’s records request is designed to expose how California state legislators
are wasting tax dollars to take care of another corrupt politician – Eric
Holder – under the guise of resisting the rule of law on immigration and other
matters,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “His record at the Clinton and Obama Justice
Departments demonstrates a willingness to bend the law in order to protect his
political patrons.”
CALIFORNIA COMRADES CHOOSE
COMRADE HOLDER
https://sacramentocitizen.wordpress.com/2017/01/11/california-comrades-choose-comrade-holder/
Any attorney general who is not
an activist is not doing his or her job.
Eric Holder
In Part One of this
series, we exposed the Chicano Marxist take over of the California legislature
and their plans to defy federal immigration laws and expected actions of
the incoming Trump administration. Gov. Jerry Brown’s nomination of Xavier Becerra to be
California’s next Attorney General was the first of many steps to protect the
pervasive lawlessness of the radical left. Becerra has already taken an
aggressive and combative stance against President-elect Donald Trump, vowing to
fight Trump’s efforts to enforce immigration laws, and even block attempts to
deport criminal illegal aliens. Trump’s campaign centered on building a
wall along the United States border with Mexico to keep out illegal
immigrants, violent gangs, and terrorists posing as immigrants.
Xavier Becerra, currently a 12-year
member of Congress, is an admitted member of MEChA, or
“Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan,” often likened to a Latino KKK.
Becerra has publicly defended MEChA, even
though the Chicano supremacist group evangelizes discrimination
against non-Hispanics and calls for the killing of Border Patrol “pigs.”
MEChA’s rallying cry is: “For the race, everything; For those outside the race, nothing.”
Becerra’s Radical Plans
Recently, the State Assembly Committee on the Office of the
Attorney General asked nominee Becerra to detail his plans on the issues
of immigration, civil rights, the environment, policing and consumer protection
– apparently the only issues the California Legislature is interested in
Becerra defending.
In a letter released Saturday,
Becerra praised California’s policies helping illegal aliens get driver’s
licenses, free college tuition, and free lawyers to represent them in
deportation cases, calling it “national leadership.”
“All of these policies and programs are representative of
California’s values as a welcoming state,” Becerra wrote to the Assembly
committee.
Becerra also took a shot at Trump for proposing to create a
registry of Muslim immigrants during the campaign.”Disturbing statements
uttered during the recent Presidential campaign have given rise to legitimate
fears that the new federal administration might seek to adopt policies that
would discriminate against people based on factors such as their religious
belief,” Becerra wrote. “Any such policies would be antithetical to the deepest
constitutional values and traditions of this nation — a nation founded in
part by men and women fleeing religious persecution.”
“I have no intention of allowing this policy through the doors
of California,” he wrote.
Like a good progressive foot soldier, Becerra also vowed to
fight for abortion, calling it “reproductive freedom.”
Becerra said he will support
California’s recent legislation expanding voter registration and participation
in elections. He might want to look into the 650,000 newly registered
California voters, registered online only weeks before the election. According to the Los
Angeles Times, “98%
of all the growth in California’s voter ranks in 2016 happened in just the last
45 days of the registration season.”
As Attorney General, Becerra has vowed to continue
enforcing policies to combat climate change and work to “transition
Californians to a low-carbon way of life.” Becerra added that a part of
environmental protections is safe drinking water and vowed to “pursue the goal
of providing safe drinking water to all Californians.” Perhaps Becerra can
begin by supporting the safe drinking water bills that Assemblyman Devon Mathis
has tried to get passed over the last two years? In Mathis’ district,
wells began going dry in East Porterville more than three years ago, with more
continuing to dry up every day.
Assemblyman Devon Mathis, R-Porterville, authored the bills
to provide $10 million to homeowners (not farmers) to dig deeper wells and
clean contaminated ones.
Both bills passed through the Assembly and a state Senate
committee without opposition, only to have Senate Appropriations Chairman
Ricardo Lara, D-Los Angeles and Mecha activist, put both bills on suspense– one
after the other, killing them and depriving 10,000+ low-income individuals
access to running water. Sen. Lara was playing politics with this Republican
bill, despite the 10,000 poor people who need the clean water.
Sanctuary Cities
California, through its 35 Sanctuary
Cities, is clearly violating U.S. Federal Immigration law. Recently, Democrat
members of the State Legislature proposed two bills: SB 6 by Sen. Ben Hueso, to
create a state program to fund legal representation for illegal aliens facing
deportation, and AB 3 by Assemblyman Rob Bonta to create taxpayer-funded training for
defense attorneys and public defenders on immigration law for illegal aliens.
And now California is going to try to prevent the new
Presidential administration from enforcing federal immigration law despite the
fact that the Constitution clearly imposes a duty on the president and the
executive branch, to enforce the law.
Hiring Eric Holder… for what?
Democrats in the California State
Legislature apparently decided Becerra isn’t enough legal muscle, and recently
hired former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder to fight a “clear and present
danger” from President-elect Trump… the same former Attorney General Eric
Holder who was once blasted for helping to trigger a “war” on police and called America “a nation of cowards” on the issue of
race. However, he now says he sees his “younger” self in Black Lives
Matter activists… this is who California hired to assist California’s top law
enforcement officer?
Since Trump — who is not referring
to himself as “The Office of President-Elect,” as his predecessor did — has not yet taken office, nor
any official actions, it is hard to see specifically for what purpose Holder
has been hired.
There certainly is poetic justice in hiring the failed Attorney
General of the failed Obama Administration to defend the failed and
deteriorating policies of the Jerry Brown administration and radical Democrats
running the state.
Described as a “devious,
power-hungry, racial zealot,” Eric Holder is also a dubious choice since he is
the only U.S. Attorney General in history to be held in contempt of Congress,
when he refused to turn over Operation Fast and Furious documents to Congress. One of the most reckless law
enforcement operations ever conducted by the Justice Department, it involved
selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, and resulted in the death of a U.S.
border patrol agent, Brian Terry, as well as hundreds of Mexican citizens.
Under Holder’s watch at the DOJ
Civil Rights Division, more than half of all the lawyers hired were chosen from
four radical, anti-American organizations: the ACLU, National Council of La
Raza, NAACP, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the
Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights, John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky outlined
in their 2014 book, “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”
Additionally, the Justice Department
under Holder, and now Loretta Lynch, has one of the worst records before the U.S.
Supreme Court, losing significantly more cases than either of the Bush or
Clinton Departments of Justice. “In most administrations, the department wins
about 70 percent of the cases before the Supreme Court; Mr. Holder’s department
has a losing record and has lost at least nine cases 9-0–even with Obama
appointees Elena Kagen and Sonia Sotomayor on the court,” wrote Jared Taylor of American
Renaissance, in a review of “Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.”
Judicial Watch announced today that
it filed a records request with the
California Legislature Joint Rules Committee seeking to examine legislative
records regarding the state’s employment of former Obama U.S. Attorney General
Eric Holder Jr. The record request includes:
All contracts between the California Legislature and former U.S.
Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. or Covington and Burling.
All communications between the California Legislature and former
U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. or Covington and Burling about the
Legislature’s retention of Holder and/or Covington and Burling.
“Judicial
Watch’s records request is designed to expose how California state legislators
are wasting tax dollars to take care of another corrupt politician – Eric
Holder – under the guise of resisting the rule of law on immigration and other
matters,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “His record at the Clinton and Obama Justice
Departments demonstrates a willingness to bend the law in order to protect his
political patrons.”
The hiring of Eric Holder by the California Legislature
confirms a lack of confidence in Xavier Becerra by Gov. Brown and
Democrats in the Legislature–which must be quite humiliating for Becerra,
especially after his promise to uphold California’s “progressive” policies on
immigration, Obamacare, energy, and criminal justice. “If you want to take on a
forward-leaning state that is prepared to defend its rights and interests, then
come at us,” Becerra said, directing his comment to Trump. Choosing
Holder also reiterates the anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-religion
movement of Marxists in America, but particularly in California.
The biggest obstacle standing between Marxism and Marxist domination
of the world is America, and the U.S. Constitution. And standing between a
Marxist takeover of America is California – only when California is destroyed
can Marxists proceed.
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