BlindBoo
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Judge declines to hold Holder in contemptEric Holder wears his many "Contempt of Congress" medals proudly.
You mean the 1 time. After the Issa Committee requested and received reams of unrelated documents and took hours of Holder's personal testimony, holder finally refuse a batch. Say how'd the courts rule on that case?
"The Oversight Committee is pleased that the Judge in the case has rejected the Department's request to continue illegally withholding documents and its attempt to unnecessarily prolong the proceeding. This court ruling affirms that Attorney General Holder broke the law in withholding subpoenaed documents, which led the House of Representatives to vote him in criminal contempt," said the spokesperson.
Holder broke the law but was given a pass on contempt.
So you're dropping the "many" part and pole vaulting to he was "given a pass" position now"?
And the Judge says: (from your link)
However, in a ruling Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson also denied Holder's request for an indefinite stay of her prior order that the attorney general must turn over any "non-privileged" documents the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed as part of an investigation into the botched gunrunning investigation. The judge previously ruled that Holder must give the panel any documents that are not both predecisional and deliberative in nature.
Jackson called the House contempt motion "entirely unnecessary" and said it was evident that she was considering the government's motion to lift her prior order. "Under those circumstances, the Court finds no basis to hold defendant in contempt," she wrote.
In reality the litigation continued until this year when it was finely decided in arbitration where neither side got what they wanted.
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