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November 19th, 2008 6:25 am

Eric Holder, radical

Forget about Obama’s nomination of Hillary Clinton to be Secretary of State. That has enough of a comic dimension to render its absurdity entertaining. What you should be concerned about–well, one of the things you should be concerned about–is his nomination of Eric Holder to be Attorney General.

Eric who? I didn’t know, either. NRO has the scoop in a must-read editorial:

Holder was the Clinton administration’s last deputy attorney general, succeeding Jamie Gorelick in 1997 under Janet Reno. That appointment marked the final elevation in a series of Clinton-era promotions that punctuate his rèsumè. Holder’s rise, like Obama’s own, is of symbolic significance, as he now has been nominated to be the nation’s first black attorney general. Symbolism, however, cannot camouflage the fact that Holder is a conventional, check-the-boxes creature of the Left.

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’s more likely to be animated by a touchy-feely Reno-esque agenda than traditional enforcement against crimes; he’s in favor of ending the detentions of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay and favors income redistribution to address the supposed root causes of crime.

Remember those last-minute Clinton pardons and commutations? Holder was there, helping to bring them about.

Much has been made, and appropriately so, of Holder’s untoward performance in the final corrupt act of the Clinton administration: the pardons issued in the departing president’s final hours. Of these, most notorious is the case of Marc Rich, an unrepentant fugitive wanted on extensive fraud, racketeering, and trading-with-the-enemy charges – but granted a pardon nonetheless thanks to the intercession of his ex-wife, a generous donor to Clinton’s library and legal-defense fund.

Holder’s role was aptly described as “unconscionable” by a congressional committee. He steered Rich’s allies to retain the influential former White House counsel Jack Quinn (Holder later conceded he hoped Quinn would help him become attorney general in a Gore administration); he helped Quinn directly lobby Clinton, doing an end-run around the standard pardon process (including DOJ’s pardon attorney); and he kept the deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies prosecuting Rich so they couldn’t learn about the pardon application and register their objections. . . .

Equally noxious were the stealthy pardons of Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans – Weather Underground terrorists associated with Obama’s friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn – issued on the same day as the Rich pardon. Rosenberg and Evans had been serving decades-long sentences for bombings targeting American government facilities. With Holder again helping to circumvent the pardon process and to evade objections from prosecutors, the terrorists’ jail terms were commuted just weeks after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole.

Bottom line? “Holder is a terrible selection. If there’s any Obama cabinet nomination that Republicans feel moved to oppose, this should be it.”

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19 Comments

1. anton:

The re-estblishment of the Clinton regime continues. But with a decidely leftward lean. The AG position is powerful in a largely unseen way. The AG rarely takes over a case at any personal level, his minions scurry around pushing agendas sent down from on high. The other half of the agenda, and even harder to follow, is the host of cases the will NOT be investigated (voter fraud via ACORN comes to mind), because they are on the “do not take action” list. Choosing a knee-jerk crypto-Marxist with stained hands for this post is not a happy indicator for the future.

Nov 19, 2008 - 7:18 am 2. Pajamas Media » Obama Should Think Twice About This Clinton Retread:

[...] Holder played a key role in the much-maligned pardon of fugitive Marc Rich. (Also, Roger Kimball on Eric Holder, Radical) November 18, 2008 – by Jennifer [...]

Nov 19, 2008 - 8:09 am 3. tom cuddihy:

I read through the Obama transition agenda before the site was scrubbed. Item number one on the Gramscian agenda: hate crime legislation. This will happen very quickly after inauguration day.

The Holder pick telegraphs the intent. With a 1-seat filibuster, this is easy pickings. I can think of 6-8 Republican senators who will be afraid to stand up against the unconsitutional but seemingly harmless nature of Hate Crime Legislation. John McCain, for one will probably fold like a cheap suit.

Gird your loins, conservatives. This legislation is coming, and it is going to in one swoop eviscerate the First, Second and likely Fourth amendments as well. Stand by for Human Rights Tribunals.

Mark Steyn, you might want to move to the Bahamas.

Nov 19, 2008 - 10:05 am 4. tom cuddihy:

I forgot to mention about Holder and the Marc Rich pardon –don’t forget, the issue is not just that Clinton pardoned someone who broke the law, but that subsequent to the pardon, Rich has continued to violate the law, sufacing most recently in the Oil-for-food scandal as one of Saddam’s most prominent brokers for illegal kickbacks and trading with the Hussein regime (Saddam, not Barack).

Nov 19, 2008 - 10:08 am 5. David Thomson:

Eric Holder approaches truth in a post modernist manner. During the Elian Gonzales debacle he insisted that he would not send federal agents into the house during the evening hours. Ultimately, they invaded the relative’s home in the early morning. Holder then claimed that he kept his word! We can most assuredly expect more mealy mouth rhetoric in the future. Also, should we expect him to start investing rampant credit card fraud of the Obama campaign? Should anyone hold their breath waiting for this development?

Eric holder will for the most part only send Republicans to prison. Those representing the protected politically correct classes will get away with constant lawbreaking. Let’s be blunt, Holder should be compared to the “attorney generals” employed by both the Nazis and the Communists. The U.S. constitution will no longer be in effect. We should be very, very afraid.

Nov 19, 2008 - 10:18 am 6. Isidoro Rodriguez, Esq.:

RE: Statement in Opposition to the Appointment of Mr. Eric Holder as Attorney General of the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”)

Dear President-elect Obama,

As an old Progressive Republican who after Name and Watergate worked as an appointee in both the Carter and Reagan Administrations, I have been a strong supporter of you.

However, I oppose the appointment of Mr. Eric Holder because he is a defendant in a civil RICO action for violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242, 1204, and 1513.

The evidence confirms that in his capacity as a Beltway attorney and lobbyist he has been the linchpin in a criminal conspiracy by government employees to deprive my Son of his civil rights as a U.S. citizen, obstruct my rights as a parent, and injure, stigmatize, and deprive me of my right as an independent civil litigation attorney in retaliation for my for petitioning Congress, litigating to enforce my federal statutory rights as a parent to compel DOJ to comply with their duty under the Hague Convention on Missing and Abducted Children and Virginia’s Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act VA Code § 20-124.1 et seq., [See http://home.earthlink.net/~isidoror, and for my past 30-year federal civil litigation against the unauthorized polices and practices of DOJ and the Federal Courts in violation of resident and nonresident Hispanics.1

In furtherance of the conspiracy Mr. Eric Holder did file a fraudulent bar complaint with the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board (“VSBDB”), complaining of my litigating to enforce federal rights. However, his actions were not only in violation of Federal criminal law, but too caused the uncovering of the Supreme Court of Virginia usurping the authority granted only to the General Assembly under the Constitution of Virginia of the power to crate courts-of-record. Thus the VSBDB is without judicial authority or jurisdiction to revoke any attorneys license, and its order as to me is void as issued by a kangaroo court. [see Petition for Impeachment of members of Supreme Court of Virginia et al., dated June 2007, http://www.petitiononline.com/RDL/petition.html, and see also http://best-lawyer.tistory.com/entry/Isidoro-Rodriguez-Civil-Rights-LawyerFAMILY-LAW.

Because of the far reaching implications of the criminal enterprise, since 2007 the Federal Courts have “stonewalled” by denying demands for a jury trial and by not applying the Void Order Doctrine, denied access to an impartial court to compel DOJ protect me as a victim pursuant to the mandate of 18 U.S.C. § 3771(a), and denied me of the right to sue for damages under RICO for malfeasance based on holding absolute Judicial and Executive immunity from tortious and criminal liability and lack of venue in D.C. to challenge the criminal acts initiated there by Mr. Eric Holder, Isidoro Rodriguez, Esq. v. Editor in Chief, Legal Times, et al., Petition for Writ of Certiorari, US S Ct. Docket No. 08-411, filed on September 28, 2008. See In re Isidoro Rodriguez, Petition for Writ of Mandamus, US S Ct. Docket No. 08-339, September 15, 2008, to compel the federal courts to comply with the 18 U.S.C. § 3771; and Isidoro Rodriguez v. Hon. Leroy Rountree Hassell, Sr. Chief Justice , Supreme Court of Virginia, et al., Petition for Writ of Certiorari, US S Ct. Docket No. 08-574, field October 30, 2008.

Consequently, to prevent a blot on your fledgling Administration I oppose any hasty appointment Mr. Eric Holder before requiring an investigation of the evidence and my allegations.

As proclaimed in the word inscribed on the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Department Building in, “No Free Government Can Survive That Is Not Based on The Supremacy of Law. Where Law ends, Tyranny Begins, Law Alone Can Give Us Freedom, ” it is a critical time when the to restore integrity and public confidence in DOJ.

_________Isidoro Rodriguez_
Isidoro Rodriguez, Esq.
Law Offices of Isidoro Rodriguez
Web: http://www.4jobs.com/1114836
Mobil: 703.470.1457 Email: isidoror@earthlink.net

1After I argued and won a Federal Tort Claim Act action, Martinez v. Lamagno and DEA, 515 U.S. 417 (1995), the Legal Times confirmed in March 1995, that I was the only know active U.S. license federal litigation sole practitioner residing outside of the U.S. and litigating in Federal Courts on behalf of resident and nonresident Hispanics, i.e. I have: (i) represented 360 nonresident Hispanic women in Class action Breast Implant Cases; (ii) litigated to stop the seizing of all nonresident Hispanic surnamed accounts in the United States as violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Bank Secrecy Act, and the Right to Financial Privacy Act, Lopez v. First Union, 129 F3.rd. 1186 (11th Cir. 1997); and, (iii) litigated against the issuance of the Constitutional prohibited bill of attainders against nonresident Hispanics.

Nov 19, 2008 - 10:23 am 7. Obama Names Eric Holder As His Attorney General « The Urban Grind:

[...] was also very much involved in the pardons of Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan [...]

Nov 19, 2008 - 6:31 pm 8. wdriver:

So what we have here is simply this – Barack Obama is the Front Man for the next two Clinton administrations. If these appointments are the ‘best and brightest’ this country has to offer, we are in for a major series of scandals for the next eight years. They either can’t keep their pants or panties on, or they can’t control their other voracious appetites for fame, glory and money – at whatever expense to the people who they supposedly represent.

Like the recent show of the Big 3 Automakers, they represent no interest but their own selfish welfare.

So there, take that!

Nov 19, 2008 - 6:56 pm 9. Tina Trent:

In the 1990’s, Holder was at the table when the Justice Department and a coalition of non-elected, private “consultants” created some very disturbing bureaucratic protocols for hate crime law enforcement in the states. This body of “unwritten” law has introduced vast subjectivity into our entire system of law enforcement, and police and prosecutors everywhere are “trained” by private groups to conform to these privately invented protocols. I once had one such trainer for the Simon Wiesenthal Center blithely tell me that “they don’t put it in writing” (referring to their answers to questions police and prosecutors often ask about whether rape and serial rape should be investigated as evidence of gender bias). Then another SWC employee immediately called me and told me that I wasn’t allowed to quote the very trainer I had been referred to when I requested an interview. My guess is that they were simply shocked to encounter anything short of abject admiration from an academician for what they were doing, as they put it, to “combat hate.”

Holder was in the middle of this process. I was saddened to see his name in the news again. The leaders of the hate crimes movement revile actual equality for victims of crime and the practice of law enforcement itself; they feel they have rights to shape legal policy that belong in the hands of elected officials; yet, simultaneously, they feel they need not be transparent about what they do to influence hate crime law enforcement and prosecution.

Nov 21, 2008 - 11:11 am 10. Charles:

A detroit radio station called the Kenyan embassy after the election of Obama. After a lot of trouble they get through to the ambassador of Kenya.

The ambassador of Kenya says that obama was born in Kenya and that his birth place has become a national shrine.

Listen to the recording here

Nov 21, 2008 - 12:16 pm 11. Steynian 287 « Free Canuckistan!:

[...] ROGER KIMBALL– Eric Holder, Radical: “Forget about Obama’s nomination of Hillary Clinton to be [...]

Nov 21, 2008 - 12:26 pm 12. Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Chris Matthews And The Four-Year Long Obamagasm:

[...] honeymoon softball with the president-elect, Matthews gave a one-sentence acknowledgment of the Holder appointment on his Tuesday show and then proceeded to announce his new segment, called Pardon [...]

Nov 24, 2008 - 10:55 am 13. steveaz:

Roger,
Does Holder have any connections to the deceased Ron Brown, Clinton’s “first, Black” Secretary of the Treasury?

Mr. Brown died in a suspicious plane accident in Clinton’s first term, as I recall. Like Vince Foster, Ron appeared to know intimate details of Party political scandals, but I got the impression he wasn’t willing to go along to get along, like Holder, Dodd, Raines, Gorelick, Obama, and others are.

So he had to go.

Was Brown the anti-Holder, a pro-American African American who would not play Clinton’s triangulation game? And why is Holder, the leftist party-man and anti-American, the man that is left standing and with clout?

Dec 3, 2008 - 7:56 am 14. Timothy Birdnow » Holder Your Horses! Obama`s Bad AG Pick:

[...] also, Jennifer Rubin dishes on Holder`s involvement in the Marc Rich pardon, and Roger Kimball discusses Holder`s radicalism. [...]

Dec 18, 2008 - 7:06 am 15. Calvin Reddick:

Roger,

Face it your conservative views which most Black Americans view as a buzzword for racism is not going to cut it for the next 4 years. I assume you are a Republican and your 21st century ways of modern slavery is no longer in the forefront. I am glad that we will have a Attorney General that will fight against Hate Crimes, Women rights etc. HaHa you and your racist idealogy has to face 4 years of suffering. Good for you.

Jan 18, 2009 - 12:47 pm 16. BizzyBlog:

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Sep 10, 2009 - 8:10 am 17. BizzyBlog:

[...] around at others in the administration like John Holdren, Zeke the Bleak Emanuel, Carol Browner, Eric Holder, and others, you could probably make a good argument that Jones’s beliefs are in the [...]

Sep 12, 2009 - 6:41 am 18. Pat Dollard | Young Americans | Blog Archive » Obama Should Think Twice About This Terrorist Pardoning Clinton Flunky - With Video:

[...] Eric Holder, Radical [...]

Oct 10, 2009 - 6:44 am 19. Conservative Talk-TheWeekly Worldview: It's Turtles All The Way Down | Conservative Talk:

[...] the ACLU will be in New York to defend the 9-11 terrorists as well. Attorney General Eric Holder says he looks at the upcoming civilian trial of enemy soldiers as an opportunity to show the world [...]

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