Posted on 08/15/2014 11:33:25 AM PDT by apillar
In March, the Senate filibustered Obama’s pick to be the nation’s top civil rights lawyer because of election-year politics — and what’s happening in Missouri is unlikely to change that.
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, which has been tasked by Attorney General Eric Holder to help lead an investigation into the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, has been without a confirmed leader since July 2013.
And because of Congressional gridlock and election-year politics, it’s likely that the civil rights department will not get a confirmed assistant attorney general any time soon.
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On a not so funny note, the US hasn’t had a director or leader for going on 6+ years now and look how great things have turned out.
Everyone knew that guy was a BLACK RACIST!!!
Good, the Civil Rights Div of DOJ has been the most corrupted division in the Department, esp. with Perez at its head.
The only one more corrupt is Holder.
Less heads, more justice because the honest people can do their jobs without political commissars directing them.
Their job is to fuel the flames of racial hate, burn the policeman, and give the Brown family grounds for a few million in reparations wealth redisribution.
We still have an Iraq vet Marine sitting in a Mexican jail, but hey, clearly THIS is more important...
Bingo. They fly in and spread money around to support the activists who rile up the crowds.
Those out of town bussed in protestors? We’re paying for them indirectly.
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