Posted by
Bob B on Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:14:14 AM
The One has chosen Eric Holder to be his Attorney General. The editors at National Review Online have defined him as a horrendous choice. Here is a summary with some key excerpts from
their editorial.
Holder was the Clinton administration’s last deputy attorney general, succeeding Jamie Gorelick in 1997 under Janet Reno.
He is convinced justice in America needs to be “established” rather than enforced; he’s excited about hate crimes and enthusiastic about the constitutionally dubious Violence Against Women Act; he’s a supporter of affirmative action and a practitioner of the statistical voodoo that makes it possible to burden police departments with accusations of racial profiling and the states with charges of racially skewed death-penalty enforcement
He favors ending the detentions of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay
He favors income redistribution to address the supposed root causes of crime.
Supported the infamous Clinton pardons including that of Marc Rich
In 1999, over the objections of the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and prosecuting attorneys, Holder supported Clinton’s commutation of the sentences of 16 FALN conspirators [Puerto Rican terrorists]
Equally noxious were the stealthy pardons of Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans, Weather Underground [members] associated with Obama’s friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, issued on the same day as the Rich pardon.
This is a very bad start indeed.