Obama’s wingman doth protest too much.
Sadly, it seems he’s convinced himself that he never politicized his position and the DOJ. That not only makes him delusional, but also a projectionist.
@EricHolder's Legacy Of Politicization investors.com/politics/edito…
Sadly, it seems he’s convinced himself that he never politicized his position and the DOJ. That not only makes him delusional, but also a projectionist.
@EricHolder's Legacy Of Politicization investors.com/politics/edito…
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.
In his farewell, Holder asserted that he restored Justice "to what it always was — free of politicization and focused on the mission without any kind of interference from political outsiders."
This from the man who proudly described himself as "an activist attorney general."
Holder admitted that he turned the civil rights division into a political weapon, adding "(I am) proud of it."
Holder admitted that he turned the civil rights division into a political weapon, adding "(I am) proud of it."
"The responsibility of the attorney general is to change things," (as opposed to applying the law equally), he said.
Career prosecutors brought to him an open-and-shut case of voter intimidation against club-wielding thugs of the New Black Panthers, who in 2008 tried to bully white voters at a Philadelphia polling place into voting for Obama. But Holder dismissed the case.
He made it clear that he was only there to prosecute white people who intimidate black people, not the other way around. He had no intention of protecting the voting rights of every American, just the voting rights of select groups.
And in an overtly political speech, he attacked America for being "a nation of cowards" for not seeing the same racist bogeymen he and his boss see lurking behind virtually every corner.
Yet it was Holder who six years later still can't bring himself to talk about black-on-black murder — the real problem plaguing the inner city. The real cowardice was his refusal to address the young black fratricide in Chicago and other major cities.
Holder only fed these pathologies by ginning up racism in Sanford, Fla., and Ferguson, Mo. He knew better. He was agitating, whipping up the mob to get out the black vote ahead of the 2012 and 2014 elections.
"Mr. Holder was not beyond using scare tactics against minorities to win re-electio n," ex-Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams said. In fact, his "job was to scare and mobilize minorities."
Adams also cites Holder's launch of a 2012 campaign against voter ID in South Carolina and other states with large black voter bases, in which he compared voter ID laws to the "poll tax."
"Without a racially polarized and activated base," Adams said, "Mr. Obama could not have won in 2012."
Holder also stacked his department with fellow activists, pushing out career lawyers "to fill the rank-and-file with leftist lawyers," Adams said.
Holder also stacked his department with fellow activists, pushing out career lawyers "to fill the rank-and-file with leftist lawyers," Adams said.
The supposedly apolitical attorney general rejected his own IG’s recommendation against hiring lawyers from left-wing civil rights groups: the Students of Color Coalition, Black Organization of Soul Sisters, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
Yet Holder has the gall to claim in a "legacy" video posted on Justice's website, "Attorney General Eric Holder: People's Attorney," that he "depoliticized Justice Department hiring practices."
To the nation's detriment, he proved a polarizing, race-baiting radical who conducted himself in the most dishonest manner, enforcing the law for some and not for others.
Holder injected politics into law at every turn, leaving a legacy of racial scare tactics and division.
Holder injected politics into law at every turn, leaving a legacy of racial scare tactics and division.
