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George Will: Questions for attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch
wa po ^ | January 9, 2015 | George Will

Posted on 01/11/2015 9:48:17 PM PST by george76

The Justice Department has been, to say no more, unhelpful regarding attempts to fully investigate and properly punish the politicization and corruption of the Internal Revenue Service. Given the department’s seeming complicity in the coverup, would it not be appropriate to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS practice of suppressing the political activity of conservative groups?

Civil forfeiture — the seizure of property suspected of being produced by, or involved with, crime — has become a lucrative business for lawless law enforcement. Civil forfeiture treats citizens worse than criminals, seizing the property of people neither convicted of nor even indicted for a crime. All or a portion of the proceeds from the sale of such property goes to those who seized it. You are familiar with this form of moral hazard: Between 2011 and 2013, your U.S. Attorney’s Office reaped more than $113 million from such forfeitures. Do you agree that this practice often is indistinguishable from robbery?

Many progressives say that the 34 states that have passed laws requiring voters to have a government-issued photo ID are practicing “vote suppression.” Does requiring a photo ID at airports constitute “travel suppression”? Visitors to the Justice Department are required to present photo IDs. Will you — we will be watching with a fine-toothed comb — plan to end this “visit suppression”?

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assetforfeiture; civilforfeiture; doj; electionfraud; georgewill; irs; justicedepartment; lorettalynch; lynch; photoid; propertyrights; travelsuppression; visitsuppression; votefraud; voterfraud; votesuppression; will

1 posted on 01/11/2015 9:48:17 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Some good stuff there from George.


2 posted on 01/11/2015 10:07:19 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy, and he is us.)
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To: george76

Great question. Will they ask them?


3 posted on 01/11/2015 10:25:01 PM PST by aquila48
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To: george76

Good questions, though I don’t agree with Will’s contention right out of the gate that this person should be approved by the Senate.


4 posted on 01/11/2015 10:33:28 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: EternalVigilance

Will is a turd


5 posted on 01/11/2015 10:41:45 PM PST by advertising guy ( Muslims, another white meat)
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To: advertising guy

But sometimes he’s a bright and shiny turd.


6 posted on 01/11/2015 11:50:06 PM PST by Usagi_yo (Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
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To: Usagi_yo

False arrogance is never shiny but it always stinks cause it is always a turd


7 posted on 01/11/2015 11:58:33 PM PST by advertising guy ( Muslims, another white meat)
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“False arrogance”

That’s like irregardless. Or dual redundant.


8 posted on 01/12/2015 12:17:54 AM PST by Usagi_yo (Coming events caste their shadow beforehand.)
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To: george76

GEORGE_WILL_CHANNELING_THOMAS_SOWELL_PING!


9 posted on 01/12/2015 2:44:24 AM PST by The Duke
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To: george76
ANSWER: "I'm Black you raycissss!!"
10 posted on 01/12/2015 4:58:48 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: SkyPilot

The new GOP Senate has already signaled they’ll roll over.


11 posted on 01/12/2015 5:43:45 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: EternalVigilance
Good questions, though I don’t agree with Will’s contention right out of the gate that this person should be approved by the Senate.

Okay, I'll bite. How is Will's insistence on a Senate vote inconsistent with the Constitution's requirement that the Senate "advise and consent" to _residential appointments? That's what the "czars" controversy was (is) all about.

12 posted on 01/12/2015 11:31:45 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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