Posted by
Always To The Right on Saturday, May 30, 2009 3:15:36 PM
Michelle blogged about this yesterday, and the Washington Times
reports today that the Department of Justice has taken the
“unprecedented” step of dropping a case which they had already won by
default judgment. Political appointees at Justice pressured career
prosecutors into giving up on the case of voter intimidation by the New
Black Panthers group in Philadelphia, who attempted to frighten voters
away from the polls in the presidential election
This looks significantly more like politicization of outcomes that
anything alleged during the Bush administration, especially since the
DoJ already won the case. In fact, the government had prepared
arguments for penalties against the men as late as May 5th, before the
political commissars under Attorney General Eric Holder ordered them to
withdraw. Holder, during his confirmation hearing, had called career
DoJ lawyers his “teachers” and the “backbone” of Justice. Apparently,
the political leadership trumps teachers and backbone when it comes to
voter intimidation on behalf of Barack Obama.
Today, the Washington Post reports
that the DoJ now appears to be taking on a political fight against a
conservative and controversial figure in Arizona. A new investigation
about alleged civil-rights violations has Sheriff Joe Arpaio fuming
over what he sees as a political attack