Holder was notorious for weaponizing DOJ under Obama: pushing CRT, dropping the Black Panthers election intimidation case, withholding docs from Congress.
Holder more or less mainstreamed the idea that voter ID laws are discriminatory, by suing Texas over a voter ID law. The DOJ ultimately settled the case, admitting no "discriminatory effect or intent."
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Holder claimed that policies with "the appearance of being race-neutral" nonetheless "disproportionately disenfranchise African-Americans, Hispanics, other communities of color and vulnerable populations such as the elderly.”
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After he left the role of attorney general in 2015, he took the reins at the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which challenges maps and helps Democrats win elections.
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Meet Tina Thomas. She's an assistant U.S. attorney at DOJ.
According to her LinkedIN bio, she worked closely with Holder during her time at Covington & Burling (2015-2021), particularly on Holder's redistricting work.🤔
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Both LinkedIn and her old Covington bio mention she did pro-bono work with the National Redistricting Foundation, a nonprofit aligned with Holder's committee.
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Thomas is a "burrower." President Biden appointed her to a political position in the DOJ Office of Legal Policy, but she took a job in the DC U.S. attorney's office in August 2024.
As best I can tell, she's still working in Trump's DOJ.
This is the latest entry in my ongoing series on burrowers from the Biden administration. You can check out some of the series below, and if you have any tips, add me on Signal at tyler2oneil.22
Kash Patel announced that the FBI had cut ties from the SPLC today.
This was long in coming. I'd know—I wrote the book about the SPLC.
I was shocked, though not surprised, to see the media twist the story.
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SPLC puts mainstream conservatives on a "hate map" with the KKK. This inspired a terror attack in 2012. This year, SPLC added Turning Point USA to the "hate map" before Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Liberals have joined conservatives in slamming the SPLC's extreme bias.
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This came after news the SPLC cut ties to the Anti-Defamation League.
Why? The ADL has demonized critics of transgender ideology, and it bent over backwards to suggest the Nashville transgender shooter was not an example of "left-wing extremism."
The FBI under Kash Patel has formally cut all ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center
This is HUGE
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“The SPLC long ago abandoned civil rights work & turned into a partisan smear machine,” @Kash_Patel told me. “Their so-called hate map has been used to defame mainstream Americans & even inspired violence.”
“That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.”
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This comes after I and a chorus of conservative voices, including @elonmusk, @Cernovich, @JackPosobiec, and so many others rightly called on the FBI to officially cut ties.
President Trump signed a memo mobilizing the federal government against Antifa, left-wing terrorism, and the funding networks that support them.
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“These are professional agitators, these are bad people and they’re paid a lot of money by rich people, some of whom we know,” Trump said of Antifa.
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“This is the first time in American history that there is an all-of-government effort to dismantle left-wing terrorism, to dismantle Antifa, to dismantle the organizations that have been carrying out these acts of political violence and terrorism,” @StephenM said.