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Holder Vows To Lower Threshold For US Civil Rights Charges [NEXT: Change Judges To Get Result!]
BBCNews ^ | February 27, 2015

Posted on 02/27/2015 5:14:36 PM PST by Steelfish

27 February 2015 Holder Vows To Lower Threshold For US Civil Rights Charges

Attorney General Eric Holder says he will try to change the standard needed to bring federal civil rights cases in his last few weeks in the job.

In an interview with Politico, Mr Holder said "if we adjust those standards, we can make the federal government a better backstop".

His comments come after his department said it would not bring such charges in the Trayvon Martin case.

Mr Holder is set to leave after his successor, Loretta Lynch, is confirmed.

Ms Lynch, a US prosecutor in New York, was approved by a Senate committee panel on Thursday and must be confirmed by the wider Senate in the coming weeks.

Mr Holder, who has spoken out strongly about minorities communities relations with law enforcement, said he would use his last days as the US' top lawyer to talk about how the justice department decides to bring civil rights cases.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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1 posted on 02/27/2015 5:14:36 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Behind closed doors I am pretty sure he uses the terms whities, honkies, crackers and white boys a lot.


2 posted on 02/27/2015 5:16:46 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Steelfish

ANyone charged for Islamic terrorists beheading?

No. Because THAT is protected by the DO”J”.

Protected by HOlder-the-Corrupt.

Protected by Obola-the-undocumented Moslem from Indonesia.


3 posted on 02/27/2015 5:17:15 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Steelfish

Lower the standard to Not Guilty but an Unsympathetic Person to a Jury.

There you go.


4 posted on 02/27/2015 5:18:59 PM PST by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: Steelfish

RACIST FILTH — along with his ‘ilk’


5 posted on 02/27/2015 5:22:27 PM PST by EagleUSA (Liberalism removes the significance of everything.)
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To: Steelfish

Dozens of FBI agents investigating this b.s. instead of real crimes.

Zimmerman was a Democrat who voted for Obama, Hispanic, who tutored black kids as a Big Buddy and took a black girl to prom.

Yet he becomes a ‘white Hispanic’ to fit the false narrative the MSM is pushing.

Meanwhile, actual hate crimes against whites go unnoticed by national media and are relegated to ‘local news only’ status.


6 posted on 02/27/2015 5:22:38 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: Steelfish
Rush prognosticated about this today. Don't know if he was reacting to this "pledge" or not -- probably. Mused about obama issuing an EO eliminating need for evidence or allowing discretion of AG to override it....

I'd say there's a better than even chance it plays out just like that.

7 posted on 02/27/2015 5:23:24 PM PST by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Steelfish

The new threshold - whiteness.


8 posted on 02/27/2015 5:31:46 PM PST by skeeter
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To: Steelfish

That interview was so obviously staged. They don’t even try to hide it anymore. It’s really more of an insult to the progressives who love these guys. They’re the ones who are really bring fooled and don’t know it.


9 posted on 02/27/2015 5:38:09 PM PST by uncitizen (Mark Levin: "Jeb Bush? No way Jose!")
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To: Steelfish; 17th Miss Regt; Diogenesis; savedbygrace; EagleUSA; TigerClaws; skeeter; 9thLife; ...

Sharpton: We Must Lower Legal Threshold for Federal Hate Crime
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3261522/posts


10 posted on 02/27/2015 5:51:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: Steelfish

It’s obvious boner and mitchy told him they’ll never bring up the contempt charges or anything else.


11 posted on 02/27/2015 6:05:14 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are RINO voters.)
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To: Steelfish

His own statements vividly illustrate that Eric Holder is and has always been unfit to hold any position of public trust and responsibility.

Why, after all, does “Lady Justice” wear a blindfold and carry a scale?

In Eric Holder’s view it’s important for Lady Justice to peek under the blindfold in order to dispense favors for favored individuals, classes, genders, races, and political leanings, while bringing the full force and coercion of a corrupt government to bear on anyone who is disfavored.

In his jaundiced worldview, it’s doubly important that Eric Holder have the ability to put his thumb (or better yet, a ton of bricks) on whichever side of the scale he personally desires.

What a despicable man.

But it’s not just Holder. Rather, it’s a common moral failing of leftists - they are really big on “social justice” (a.k.a. a rigged system) which is an illegitimate perversion of true justice.


12 posted on 02/27/2015 6:07:21 PM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Steelfish

Everything this clown says and does sounds like something out of Kafka.


13 posted on 02/27/2015 7:00:49 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (If obama speaks and there is no one there to hear it, is it still a lie?)
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To: Steelfish

Why not?

After all, (greatly) lowered standards allowed Holderdork and Dorkbama to become lawyers.

Thankfully, we have real talents like Justice Thomas to balance those two idiots with true accomplishment.


14 posted on 02/27/2015 7:54:23 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Steelfish

They need to simply skip that complicated “due process” thingy.

Charge the subject with a hate crime and move right to the lynch party phase.


15 posted on 02/27/2015 8:02:09 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Bratch

A pure Racist


16 posted on 02/27/2015 8:06:20 PM PST by scooby321
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To: Steelfish

Mr. Holder wants to do away with that pesky evidence requirement and try people based on public outcry.


17 posted on 02/27/2015 8:38:06 PM PST by PJammers (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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Holder Vows To Lower Threshold For US Civil Rights Charges...I heard that if you strap a guy to a chair and dunk him in a pool of water and he sinks, that proves he's a racist - maybe they could try that......
18 posted on 02/27/2015 9:06:43 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Steelfish

lower it enough that there is no need for evidence just the people screaming they want justice will do


19 posted on 02/28/2015 3:04:58 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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