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Friday, March 12, 2010

Holder Withheld Legal Briefs from Senate

Seems like a contempt of Congress charge may be in order. 

Justice Department officials say that when senators were considering Eric Holder’s nomination to be attorney general last year, he didn’t given them all the legal briefs he had signed from his time in private practice.

Holder now has told the Senate Judiciary Committee about the lapse in turning over copies of the legal filings.

(5) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1720 hrs
Law + Politics + Politics - General

  1. Inadvertendly forgetting to submit friend of the court briefs that he prolly forgot he signed deserves a contempt charge? Get real, and stop picking fights.

    seriously, you’ll do anythign to attack someone you happen to disagree with. get over it.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 12, 2010 at 2339 hrs


  2. Seems like a contempt of Congress charge may be in order.

    I’m guilty too!  Fucking Congress!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 13, 2010 at 0039 hrs


  3. seriously, you’ll do anythign to attack someone you happen to disagree with. get over it.

    OMFG, The Irony just hit me upside the head like a 9 iron!  Good one George!!!!!!!

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 13, 2010 at 0039 hrs


  4. OMFG, The Irony just hit me upside the head like a 9 iron!  Good one George!!!!!!!

    I think the irony is “inadvertent” on his part though. Does that still make it irony? or just hypocrisy…..

    I think that the congress should investigate the briefs that were filed by Holder, and if there is anything in there that may have changed their decision they should admonish Holder (only obama can fire him). I do however think that a contempt charge is not out of question depending on the volume and nature of the “inadvertent” omissions.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 13, 2010 at 0829 hrs


  5. Inadvertently my rear end.

    How do you sign an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, and not remember it?

    Now granted, he wrote and signed many briefs. But this is kinda like forgetting to pay your taxes. Oops - bad example. OK - maybe like forgetting to claim rental income from your property in the Caribbean. Oops - another bad example. OK - maybe this is like forgetting you fathered a child during your presidential campaign.

    Honestly - these papers were know about and intentionally withheld, due to the questions that would have been raised. It is not reasonable to assume that they were forgotten.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 13, 2010 at 1044 hrs


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