Eric Holder's parting shot: It's too hard to bring civil rights cases

Politico ^ | February 27, 2015 | Mike Allen

[Biggirl]

Attorney General Eric Holder plans to push, during his final weeks in office, a new standard of proof for civil-rights offenses, saying in an exit interview with POLITICO that such a change would make the federal government “a better backstop” against discrimination in cases like Ferguson and Trayvon Martin.

[Old Retired Army Guy]

I don’t know that much about his replacement, but it is hard to imagine anybody worse than Holder.

[P-Marlowe]

She’s worse.

[gr8eman]

That POS failed...his replacement will fail also!

[SmokingJoe]

Yup. She made that clear in her confirmation hearings. That still wasn’t enough to stop Grahamnesty from voting to confirm her.

[yldstrk]

Putting a case together and presenting it to a judge is damn hard work, tedious, uphill battle type slogging away.

[InterceptPoint]

“I think some serious consideration needs to be given to the standard of proof that has to be met before federal involvement is appropriate, and that’s something that I am going to be talking about before I leave office,” Holder, 64, said."

Does this require much thought in order to decipher what he means? I don't think so.

What he wants is to lower the bar on the proof of racism to a level that would allow, for example, the conviction and imprisonment of Zimmerman and Darren Wilson. He wants to make it easy enough that all you need is a political decision to prosecute and convict. Sort of like the system used by ISIS and Hitler. That sort of thing.

[DJ MacWoW]

This Isn't Civil Rights

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[conservatism_IS_compassion]

’s the truth - he actually claims to want “a standard of proof?”

That would be an improvement!

[Enten]

Another professional victim.

[denydenydeny]

That due process business is so regressive.

[SampleMan]

The new standard in proof = no proof.

[Timber Rattler]

I don’t think that she’s as smart though, in a villainous way.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

Radical agrees to cease occupation of building shouts "BLACK POWER" on the way out.. developing

[LonePalm]

Perhaps the reason that it is so hard to bring a Civil Rights case is because there aren't any Civil Rights violations going on.

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