For those who have wondered (particularly when looking at the incredible miscarriages of prosecutorial injustices and improprieties in cases like Gov. Siegelman’s), no, Obama has yet to replace Bush’s partisan U.S. Attorneys, incredibly enough. But he will, says AG Holder, according to Politico…
“I expect that we’ll have an announcement in the next couple of weeks with regard to our first batch of U.S attorneys,” Holder said Thursday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing which stretched out over most of the day due to breaks for members’ votes. “One of the things that we didn’t want to do was to disrupt the continuity of the offices and pull people out of positions where we thought there might be a danger that that might have on the continuity–the effectiveness of the offices. But…elections matter–it is our intention to have the U.S. Attorneys that are selected by President Obama in place as quickly as they can.”
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Holder’s comments Thursday came in response to a question from Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) “Many jurisdictions are waiting desperately to see what is going to be done. As we understand it, the protocol has been that U.S. Attorneys would hand in their resignations and would give the new administration an opportunity to make new appointments, we don’t see that happening quite fast enough,” she said, pointing to complaints about prosecutors in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.
Gosh. Take your time, kids. Although, in fairness (where any may be due here), the following bears keeping in mind…
U.S. Attorneys require confirmation by the Senate and are usually proposed with the concurrence of the senators from that state.
So much for the “loyal bushies”, their as toast as the war criminal neocon fascists they supported these past eight horrible years.
Are any of them going to be investigated for their manipulation of the law primarily against the GNOPs political opponents, e.g. Liberals and democrats?
Hasta La Vista to the party of NO! Good riddance to bad rubbish!!! don’t let the door hit ya where the lord split ya!
Stop being a dick holder! …”that at least a triple” . . . Cheif…
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“Are any of them going to be investigated for their manipulation of the law primarily against the GNOPs political opponents, e.g. Liberals and democrats?”
I hope so, FOIA, that’s what we’re calling for at RestoreJusticeAtJustice.com.
If you haven’t signed on to that letter, please do!
Why’s everyone getting excited over this?
As with Holder’s toeing of the Bush party line the Obama appointees will carry on the persecutions of the Bush appointees.
A large network of activists are seeking to have President Barak Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder review the federal prosecutions of Democrats to see if they were indeed politically motiviated during the Bush adminisatration.
“It’s illegal to target someone, for example, simply because they are a Democrat with the Department of Justice. And if they are found to be political, these charges need to be vacated appropriately,” said Brad Friedman, co-founder of the Velvet Revolution, the group spearheading the DoJ review effort.
Friedman said that pattern of political prosecutions is basic.
“Where they couldn’t win elections, they had to figure out other ways to get these Democrats off the grid,” he explained. “To paraphrase Clinton, ‘It’s the elections, stupid!’”
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One documentary “The Political Prosecutions of Karl Rove” estimates that about 40 political prosecutions of Democrats occurred in Texas due to Rove’s operatives in the Justice Department. That figure includes mayors, city councilpersons, and school board members.
http://www.lonestaricon.com/absolutenm/anmviewer.asp?a=3910&z=355
The Bush administration dramatically raised the stakes for belonging to the “wrong” party: persecution, lawsuits, muckraking, and character assassination, if not out-and-out jail time. The Repugs stole power they were not supposed to have in order to destroy their political enemies, and they enjoyed unprecedented wealth and acclaim as a result.
It is this loss of almost-absolute power that is now causing the Repug party to implode as they run around screaming with their hair on fire, trying to gin up outrage in their base.
The Repug “base”, on the other hand, is deteriorating down to the rich, and the to poor white guys who actually thought they had something to believe in, and a political party who believed in them. Feeling disenfranchised by the Dems victories and the return of some semblance of the rule of law, the rich are busy dishing out cash to Congress to preserve their seven-figure incomes and their elite way of life. Meanwhile, the poor white shmo who has suddenly had the rug pulled out from under him is buying guns, and some of them are using them to kill those they think “done them wrong.”
So the Repugs have not only destroyed another country with an unnecessary war and the US with their economic and political power games — their actions are causing social strife for which this country will pay for a generation.
I’m not sure which circle of Hell most of these perpetrators will eventually end up in, I just know it’s probably too good for them.
Do we have a Democrat in the White House? Hard to
tell given all the continued Bush policies.
Garbage in, garbage out!
Er. . . wrong slogan, how about “out with the old, in with the new?”
Yes indeed, the ‘loyal bushies’ are going to face justice for their criminal activities.
12 Bush lawyers face disbarment complaints
Article & Comments
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/05/18/activists-file-complaints-to-have-bush-lawyers-involved-in-sanctioning-torture-disbarred/#
Here’s a more complete list of those who should be held Accountable for their crimes.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/citizenarrest