Posted on 06/28/2012 2:01:33 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted 255 to 67 to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, a historic and divisive election-year action that GOP leaders cast deadly serious and Democratic leaders dismiss as petty politics.
The unprecedented House censure of a sitting attorney general -- the Obama administration’s top lawyer – over Holder’s refusal to release internal documents tied to a botched gun-trafficking investigation saw both sides dig in. The White House asserted this week the documents are protected by executive privilege. Republicans pressed an emotional trump card that guns that slipped into the hands of drug cartels in the “Fast and Furious” operation have been linked to the deaths of a Border Patrol Agent, and hundreds of Mexicans, and the subpoenaed material would shed light about department actions in its aftermath.
The vote fell almost entirely along party lines, with just 17 Democratic defections and two Republican ones. Racial overtones came into play in the vote, as some Black lawmakers and others walked out, refusing to participate in the action against Holder, an African American.
The immediate impact of the House’s action – beyond any political repercussions – is almost nil. What’s likely next to happen, according Republican congressional sources, is that the lead House committee in the matter, chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., will file civil suit in federal court, seeking a declaratory judgment that Holder is in contempt and an injunction ordering him to comply in turning over the documents. But that action could take years to be sorted out through any appeals process. The House also has the option of referring the matter to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for prosecution of Holder in federal court, but Republicans know the department would probably refuse to charge its own leader.
Along with the contempt resolution, the House voted Thursday to authorize the Oversight and Government Reform Committee to initiate some legal action.
Which two repubs were so worthless as to vote no? I want their heads on a pike
Rigell WTH!!
Who were the two spineless Pubbies who defected?
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http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll441.xml
If I’m reading this right:
LaTourette (OH-14)
Rigell (VA-2)
Or as Python would put it...
When Justice finally reared it’s head..
Democrats all turned and fled
BRAVE Brave Brave BRAVE Black Caucus!
So what? Nothing is going to happen to Holder, much ado about nothing.
The senate isn’t involved in this.
Now Holder reacting to vote on C-Span.
Obama, the little bastard, is so busy dancing around about his ball spiking supreme court win that he probably forgot about Holder’s contempt resolution.
This was in the House, not the Senate. Mc Cain is no where near there I would like to know who the 17 dems are. It was said that since the NRA is scoring their vote, some dems, who are in districts who like their guns, would vote with the reps.
And the leftist freak representatives’ campaign slogan will be, “Don’t blame ME, I wasn’t even in the room — Vote for ME!”
Should get about .05 seconds on the news....
Not the Senate.
Geesh.........
“So what? Nothing is going to happen to Holder, much ado about nothing.”
Ok? Maybe they should have done nothing, and then you would then be screaming about how spineless they are.
He's got a long swim in a rather hot lake!
Snowe and Collins are in the Senate.
Holder’s response is that basically its a GOP plot to disenfranchise minority voters.
So, in other words, it was BI-PARTISAN !
spike this, Dems. Did all of you see that Director of the DNC Gaspart (sp?) that tweeted “take that you M.... F...” Then another tweet later equally as blatant and disgusting.
Low life scum that reside at top of this government. Time for a seachange.
“It will go on his....... PERMANENT RECORD !!!”
If he does it again, the next step will be DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!
Right after his Double Secret Probation file.
I certainly didn’t expect them to get this far but I think its become a personal fight and they want to take Holder down.
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