One to keep an eye on.This time around, Holder is not facing charges related just to Operation Fast and Furious. Since the last Congress, Holder’s DOJ has been embroiled in a number of other scandals, and House Republicans are emboldened heading into this battle with Holder.Olson’s resolution is divided into four separate Articles of Impeachment. The first deals directly with Fast and Furious, the second with Holder’s non-enforcement directives of laws like the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and drug laws. The third addresses Holder’s refusal to prosecute IRS officials involved with leaking confidential tax return documents of GOP donors, and the fourth pursues Holder for allegedly misleading Congress regarding his involvement with the targeting of media figures like Fox News’ James Rosen.“He actually selects laws and says, ‘I like this law so I’m going to enforce it,’ and ‘I don’t like this one so I’m not going to enforce it,’” Olson said of the second part of his Articles of Impeachment resolution.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
An effort whose time has come
Texas Pub Representative Pete Olson is launching an impeachment proceeding against Eric Holder. And he's going about it with impressive savvy, quickly seeking out allies among his House colleagues, passing civil-contempt charges in addition to criminal-contempt charges, and taking into account all of Holder's transgressions, not just Fast and Furious:
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What a chilling world we will live in under your overlords! I'm talking about the the second article with Holder’s non-enforcement directives of laws like the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and drug laws. But laws are laws. Your Ronnie sure saw to that.
ReplyDeleteIndeed. Laws are laws. The DoJ is not the legislature.
ReplyDeleteAfter considerable criticism the DoJ stopped raiding med mar operations in states where the voters finally overturned Reaganesque draconia and decided not to prosecute users and providers in the states and municipalities that have done the same. Freedom hating laws are hard to break once implemented. Texas, don't mess with Texas, right? Texas has arrested favorite son Willie Nelson for possession numerous times.
ReplyDeleteWhat a joke, Texas. What a joke many Texas Congressmen.
The real effort whose time has come is this, but leave it to a Texas yahoo to want to continue with hating freedom. Holder’s landmark decision to stop enforcing federal drug laws on marijuana in states with legalization laws, like Colorado and Washington, moves the debate in a progressive direction. While it will take time for law enforcement to catch up, reforming the 1970 Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act to remove marijuana would be a good start. Keeping cannabis on the same list as heroin or other narcotics continues to disinformation that marijuana is a dangerous drug leading to pernicious abuse. “From our perspective, the only fault with the status quo is that we aren’t making a bigger dent and we’d like to make a bigger one,” said Pasco, spouting the same ignorant views that filled the nation’s prisons with marijuana offenders. Holder’s decision hopefully makes a “dent” in the public’s misconceptions and government’s old propaganda campaign that continues the same old lies about marijuana.
ReplyDeleteRead more at http://www.examiner.com/article/atty-gen-eric-holder-oks-legalizing-marijuana
How about Holder's other transgressions? Still enough th go forward with the impeachment process?
ReplyDeleteThis action will generate many more pages than the ACA. I will have to review all the proiceedings some day under the new Clinton administration.
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