Breaking News: Lamar Smith demands answers from DOJ on Panthers
UPDATE: Jennifer Rubin's piece at the Washington Post notes that the letter is five pages long. It demands to know why the DOJ wants so much more money, and in this context demands answers on New Black Panthers and the unwillingness to enforce Section 8 of the NVRA. And Lamar Smith, according to Rubin, states the obvious: the DOJ has blown this matter from the moment Steven Rosenbaum and Loretta King became belligerent hacks toward Chris Coates, to the moment they could have just gotten the injunctions and moved on, to the time they could have just told the truth and confessed error. It is a textbook example how not to captain a ship, and how not to captain a ship that springs a leak. From Rubin's Washington Post piece:
"The letter is noteworthy on a number of levels. First, administration flacks and liberal bloggers have insisted that the New Black Panther Party case is much to do about nothing. But as Smith has correctly discerned, the issue of enforcement or non-enforcement of civil rights laws based on a non-colorblind view of those laws is serious and a potentially explosive issue for this administration. Second, Holder's strategy of stonewalling during the first two years of Obama's term may have backfired. Had he been forthcoming while Democrats were in the majority, he might have been able to soften the blows; Smith is not about to pull his punches. And finally, Smith is demonstrating the sort of restraint and big-picture focus that is essential for the Republicans if they are to remain credible and demonstrate their capacity for governance."
UPDATE TWO: A further review of Chairman Smith's letter reveals that Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes is also on Smith's radar. It is clear that she is now in the cross-hairs of the House Judiciary Committee, and that is a very unwelcome place to be in Washington D.C. One saw how Democrats running the House and Senate Judiciary Committee handled the DOJ in 2006-2008. Fernandes is the one who refuses to enforce Section 8 of Motor Voter to remove ineligible voters from the rolls. The piper wants to be paid.
UPDATE THREE: I discuss Smith's letter in greater detail at NewsReal here.
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"Justice" prevails in the end (no pun intended).
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"In life, facing the music is played by the Paid Piper" ~ Me
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"Pull my finger" My Dad
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Submit the letter, wait 30 days and resubmit. Repeat until you get an answer.
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Submit the letter ONCE, wait 30 days, send Federal Marshals or U. S. Marines to arrest the Attorney-General for Contempt of Congress, incarcerate in Federal Prison until documents are produced or other circumstances pertain.
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So much of what has passed for "news stories" over the last couple years, has so dified belief, maybe now we can get to the bottom of many questions.
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Meanwhile, over at the Dept of the Interior, persistent environmental activists are submitting mounds of paperwork, at the tune of government money paid back for failure to answer requests on time...how does DoI get fined, but DoJ doesn't?
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"Justice delayed is justice denied." We have already waited too long for equal justice under the law. Those who have sworn to uphold the law have failed to comply and deserve to be impeached and removed from office.
Racism is racism, no matter who commits it. Otherwise, we have only replaced one form of prejudice with another. What more proof do we need that the DOJ is not as blind as it should be.
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