Posted on 05/15/2014 4:23:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was openly irritated both with Attorney General Eric Holder and with the U.S. House of Representatives over whether executive privilege allows Holder to withhold documents on Operation Fast and Furious. But she also signaled she would rule against Holder in part, making it likely that Congress—and the public—could learn the truth about a gun-running scandal that ended with a murdered federal agent.
Berman began today’s hearing in Washington, D.C.’s federal district court with an opening statement about this case “concerning the suspected illegal flow of firearms from the United States to Mexican drug cartels.” She said that the “risks and flaws” of the Obama administration’s program were “tragically realized” when U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered with a firearm that the administration let flow to the cartels as part of this program.
But she emphasized that the May 15 hearing was not about those issues, and instead narrowly focused on whether President Barack Obama could assert executive privilege to protect Holder’s refusal to hand over certain documents to Congress. Those documents concerned why Holder misinformed Congress on Feb. 4, 2011, claiming that the Department of Justice (DOJ) never allowed firearms to make it into Mexico.
On Oct. 11, 2011, Congress subpoenaed all the relevant documents that would explain why Congress was misinformed, including whether the misinformation was deliberate deception.
On June 20, 2012, DOJ informed Congress that Obama asserted executive privilege over those documents, saying they would reveal the deliberative process at DOJ and threaten the constitutional balance of power. Therefore Holder would not provide them. Holder became the first sitting attorney general in American history to be held in contempt of Congress.
Berman harshly criticized both sides, saying, “Reading the briefs were somewhat distressing.” But the Obama-appointed judge was especially critical...
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What is even more aggregious is that Holder’s conduct, in forwarding Fast And Furious arms supply to Mexican drug gangs, constitutes an act of War against a sovereign state: Mexico. Since when does an aparatchik POS like Holder have the power to declare war on behalf of the USA?
About time a judge stepped up and made him fork over the people’s documents. Way past time for that, in fact.
I hope one day to see Holder in cuffs being frog marched to the dock for trial.
Maybe more like slipping the chains....
I won't get my hopes up until it actually gets set in motion.
Timing and execution are everything. We need to crush the Dems in this election and keep crushing them for at least a generation.
Expect a call from the NSA, of course. Hopefully that will piss her off more.
Any info if she's married, my guess is that is who they will try to pressure. Interesting past, Gets the guy off who put the money in the freezer, gets rewarded with the appointment then rules against the administration on two big cases, then throws them a bone on mandate.
Jackson received her A.B., cum laude from Harvard College in 1976 and her J.D., cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1979.[1] Berman Jackson is Jewish, the daughter of Dr. Barnett Berman and Mildred Sauber Berman.
Professional career[edit]
After graduating from law school, Jackson served as a law clerk to the Honorable Harrison L. Winter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. From 1980 to 1986, Jackson served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia where she received Department of Justice Special Achievement Awards for her work on high profile murder and sexual assault cases in 1985 and 1986. Between 1986 to 1994, Jackson was an associate and then a partner at Venable, Baetjer, Howard, and Civiletti.[2] Starting in the year 2000 and continuing until her appointment as a federal judge, Jackson was a Member of Trout Cacheris, PLLC, in Washington, D.C. She specialized in complex litigation, criminal investigations and defense, criminal trials, civil trials, and appeals.
Jackson represented nine term Representative for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district, William J. Jefferson in his corruption trial in 2009.
Jackson has served as an expert legal commentator for many news organizations such as, Fox News Channel, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC.[3]
Federal judicial nomination[edit]
On June 17, 2010, President Obama nominated Jackson to fill a vacant seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia that was created by the transition to senior status in 2007 by Judge Gladys Kessler.[4][5] Her nomination lapsed at the end of 2010, but Obama renominated her on January 5, 2011. The United States Senate confirmed Jackson in a 97-0 vote on March 17, 2011.[6] She received her commission on March 18, 2011.[7]
Federal judicial career[edit]
On March 2, 2012, Jackson ruled that the National Labor Relations Board had limited authority to require private businesses to display posters informing workers about labor rights.[8]
On March 23, 2012, Jackson overturned a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that revoked a permit for the Spruce 1 mine project in Logan County, West Virginia. In her ruling, Jackson stated that the EPA did not have power under the Clean Water Act to rescind the permit.[9]
She will preside at the August 2013 sentencing of former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr., and his wife, Sandy Jackson.[10]
In December of 2013, Berman Jackson ruled that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Washington, D.C. must cover birth control and abortifacients for its employees under the Affordable Care Act despite a ban on abortion or contraception in Roman Catholic doctrine.[11]
Advocacy[edit]
Jackson served on the Board of the Washington D.C. Rape Crisis Center and has also been a member of the Parent Steering Committee of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders
Actually, in her court room, she does. Contempt of court, smart-mouthing the judge, etc. can get your ass hauled off to the cooler in “jig time”. Doesn’t need a US Marshall. Her own bailiff and crew can get the job done. Just think Judge Roy Bean-—law west of the Pecos. Depends, I suppose, on how much brass Her Honor actually has?
What documents?
They’ve surely been all lost and/or shredded by now.
And the judge knows that. This is just theatrical posturing. Even if they weren’t shredded, no way in hell Holder would obey her, and she knows there wouldn’t be a damned thing she could do about it.
...once again proving that the POTUS is just the prime puppet of those who are TRULY in control. We are too caught up in the chess game to notice who owns the game.
The well connected judge is probably angling for a little taste. There are billions of dollars flowing to cronies and bribe takers. She just wants a little piece of the pie.
Until someone is ready to go in and drag his sorry azz out in chains the stonewalling will continue.
What, DOJ got no shredders?
I think we are all waiting for the Seams to burst. In this case, the Judge will make a ruling in 2015. The case will be appealed and no decision before 2017. Like Hillary said “Why does it matter now!”
“I wonder how she plans to force him. Holder thinks he IS the law not just above it.”
Holder is the law, and he has Obozo’s NSA/IRS and other armed and ready governmental agencies on his side.
Something smells about this...And it ain’t my upper lip...
Seems to me this is exactly what the oppositions wants us to hear...Following through is another completely different thing...
And it is something we have never seen from anyone in cahouts with this administration and its agenda...
Just another AA nutjob...went to both Harvard and Harvard Law.
“Berman harshly criticized both sides, saying,...”
Rare indeed is any occasion when the Demon Party is harshly criticized by anyone in authority without the Repubs getting it as well.
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