Yes, you’re definitely right. The tactic of using the Federal justice system to get a desired result certainly didn’t start with Obama.
He’s probably been the most aggressive in simply ignoring results he doesn’t like (regarding anything, from Congressional votes to state or local judicial proceedings) and finding some other means of imposing his program.
But with his cowardly appeasement, GHWB certainly did announce that “rioting works.”
Yes he did. (I already posted my mea culpa regarding that part.)
But Obama and his stooge Heinrich Himmler, oops I mean Eric Holder, beats all by 105 power.
Dropping the 'New Black Panther' case, after already getting a Default Guilty Judgment, was a not so hidden signal to 'Da Boyz In Da Hood' that anything goes now -- 'we have your back Homies'.