There is a big distinction between White House Counsel
and Attorney General. The Attorney
General is supposed to be the country’s lawyer while the White House Counsel is
the President’s lawyer. Yet, Eric Holder
was more political than the White House Counsel. Actually, he was more like a political party
counsel. Three quick examples.
- In the New Black Panther case, Holder overruled a career
DOJ Attorney (who formerly headed a state ACLU chapter) to stop a conviction
against two people clearly trying to intimidate voters. While Holder and Democrats have never been
able to find a documented case of
intimidation by Republicans (since it’s non-existent), , they let these
perpetrators off.
- The Presidential Commission on Election Administration
came out strongly in favor of interstate voter registration list maintenance and
cleaning up the voter rolls. This
committee was co-chaired by President Obama’s campaign lawyer and former White
House Counsel Bob Bauer. Yet the
Department of Justice under Holder had previously announced that they would not
enforce laws regarding cleaning up the voter rolls with one of his deputies
going so far as to
state in a DOJ meeting: “We have
no interest in enforcing this provision of the law.”
- Holder again overruled career DOJ attorneys to file a purely political challenge to appease the far left on South Carolina Voter ID. Not only did the Department of Justice lose the case but they lost so badly they had to pay legal fees, with American taxpayers footing the bill for Holder’s ideological crusade.
Holder regularly overruled career appointees (who by the
way were often Democrats) to make political decisions. He was so political even the Obama campaign
lawyer disagrees with him. A shameful
history for a US Attorney General without even going into his record on
non-voting matters or voting related matters such as the IRS targeting
scandal.
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