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Posted on 02/02/2009 10:26:42 PM PST by rabscuttle385
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) made the following statement regarding his decision to oppose President Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder for U.S. Attorney General:
“The Attorney General is our nation’s top law enforcement official, and Americans deserve better than someone who helped pardon terrorists and tax cheats and who is hostile to Second Amendment rights,” said Senator DeMint.
As assistant U.S. attorney general during the Clinton Administration, Holder recommended that Marc Rich, one of the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” at the time, receive a presidential pardon. Rich was indicted in 1983 for evading more than $48 million in taxes. He was charged with 51 counts of tax fraud and for running illegal oil deals with Iran during the 1979-1980 hostage crisis.
Holder repeatedly pressed his subordinates at Department of Justice to drop their opposition to a controversial 1999 pardon of 16 members of two Puerto Rican terrorist groups convicted of bank robbery, possession of explosives and a conspiracy that was linked to more than 146 bombings in the U.S., multiple armed robberies, six murders and hundreds of injuries.
The two largest Second Amendment advocacy groups, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and the National Rifle Association (NRA), representing more than 4.3 million Americans, both opposed the confirmation of Holder. He joined an amicus brief opposing an individual’s right to keep and bear arms in the District of Columbia vs. Heller U.S. Supreme Court case.
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DeMint ping!
DeMint Da’Man!!!
Palin/DeMint 2012.
Well he sounds good. Maybe he has good roots. The South Carolinians have always had a lot of spunk when the rubber meets the road.
I hope he runs in 2012. I live in NC and would move to SC just to say Demint is my Senator. Tell it like it is.
DeMint: one of 21 Senators with BALLS.
DITTO THAT! ! !
SLAM!! You Go DeMint!!!!
Ping to the thread on DeMint re: Daschle
http://demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=JimsJournal.Detail&Blog_ID=3cef4d7c-aff1-6100-b002-255487d38cd9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177426/posts
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